Menu
16 funding sources found
Foundation
Portuguese foundation funding psychophysiology and parapsychology research. Has funded 946 projects across 31 countries since 1994.
University Center
The University of Arizona Center for Consciousness Studies supports consciousness research and organizes The Science of Consciousness conference series. Provides funding for visiting scholars, research projects, and graduate students working on consciousness across disciplines.
Government (EU)
Premier European funding body for frontier research. ERC Starting, Consolidator, and Advanced Grants have funded leading consciousness researchers including Stanislas Dehaene, Anil Seth, and Giulio Tononi's European collaborators. Supports ambitious, investigator-driven projects.
Private Foundation
Supports scientific research on the nature of consciousness, with focus on understanding consciousness as fundamental.
Foundation
Supports research at frontiers of physics, biology, and consciousness with a relational worldview approach.
Foundation
Foundation with $560M+ endowment supporting spiritually grounded transformation and the intersection of spirituality and science.
Non-Profit Research Organization
Non-profit research organization dedicated to studying psilocybin and other classic psychedelics. Has funded foundational consciousness research at Johns Hopkins, NYU, and Imperial College London. Named after Arthur Heffter, who first isolated mescaline in 1897.
Non-Profit Institute
Founded in honor of Harvard psychiatrist John E. Mack, this institute supports research on consciousness and anomalous experiences. Focuses on expanding the boundaries of scientific inquiry into extraordinary states of consciousness and their transformative effects.
Private Foundation
Foundation supporting basic science research in astrophysics, nanoscience, neuroscience, and theoretical physics. Funds Kavli Institutes worldwide, several of which conduct consciousness-relevant neuroscience research. Awards the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.
Foundation
Funds innovative research on mind, brain, and consciousness with focus on self-regulation in health and disease.
Federal Government
The Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative is a massive US federal research program launched in 2013. Funds development of new tools to understand neural circuits, with some grants directly relevant to consciousness research including neural correlates and brain-wide dynamics.
Private Foundation
Foundation supporting integrative health and wellness research. Funds consciousness-related research through its focus on mind-body interactions, biofield science, and the role of consciousness in health and healing. Major supporter of integrative medicine programs at UC Irvine.
Private Foundation
Major scientific research funder established by Jim Simons. The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain funds computational and theoretical neuroscience research relevant to understanding consciousness, including neural coding, decision-making, and large-scale brain dynamics.
Foundation
Funds research on consciousness, human flourishing, and big questions about reality. Runs Accelerating Research on Consciousness (ARC) initiative.
Private Foundation
Foundation explicitly dedicated to funding consciousness science, co-founded by Jody Allen (sister of Paul Allen). Supports research on the science of consciousness including work by Christof Koch and Giulio Tononi. Focus on understanding subjective experience through rigorous scientific methods.
Charitable Trust
One of the world's largest biomedical research charities, based in the UK. Funds neuroscience of consciousness through Discovery Research and career development grants. Has supported major consciousness research programs at UCL, Cambridge, and Sussex.