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12 funders with a record of paying for “psilocybin”
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Tiny Blue DotWest Hollywood, CA
7 matching grants · $11.1M · through 2024Largest: $3.0M to USONA INSTITUTE INC — supporting preclinical and clinical studies of 5-meo-dmt and psilocybin (two consciousness-expanding medicines) for treating mental health disorders
Largest: $50,000 to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMEN — psilocybin and alzheimer's study
Largest: $100,000 to NYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM — psilocybin therapy for advanced cancer-related psychiatric distress
Largest: $127,250 to Naropa University — provide psychedelic training scholarships and retreats for underrepresented groups, co-sponsoring the maps ps2023 conference, the naropa tea house and supporting the psilocybin fac…
The San Diego FoundationSan Diego, CACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $232,500 · through 2022Largest: $150,000 to NYU LANGONE HEALTH — psilocybin alcoholism
Largest: $30,000 to HEROIC HEARTS PROJECT INC — 1- heroic hearts veteran healing retreats 2- heroic hearts psilocybin study
The Etheridge FoundationEncino, CACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $25,000 · through 2022Largest: $25,000 to UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — addiction medicine program fund #xxx-xx-xxxx, "houdi" study - adjunctive effects of psilocybin and buprenorphine.
Largest: $102,500 to UT HEALTH — psilocybin in bipolar depression trial, dr. holly holmes' healthy aging fund, and dr. jair soares's behavioral sciences chair fund
Largest: $125,000 to PSFC — oregon measure 109, psilocybin mushroom services program initiative under the direction of tom eckert
California Healthcare FoundationOakland, CACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $10,000 · through 2022Largest: $10,000 to UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — innovation fund advisory committee grant: support for study on psilocybin therapy for the treatment of young adults with treatment-refractory anorexia nervosa
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $10,000 · through 2022Largest: $10,000 to HEFFTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — advised - for support of the riverstyx qualitative research in the hopkins/nyu religious leader study with psilocybin.
Largest: $1,000 to HEALING ADVOCACY FUND — suppport psilocybin therapy programs
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →