Making legal psychedelic
healthcare possible.
We carry forward Sheri Eckert's legacy — funding legal psilocybin therapy for people who couldn't otherwise afford it, incubating the nation's first real-world research, and helping build a psychedelic healthcare system that's accessible to all.
A nonprofit built to widen the door
Named for Sheri Eckert — a pioneering advocate who helped launch the world's first publicly available, legal psychedelic healthcare model — we unite academic rigor, compassionate care, and policy innovation under one roof. We bridge cutting-edge science with public benefit, and we do it three ways.
Fund access
Needs-based grants cover the cost of psilocybin facilitation for people facing financial hardship or from underserved communities — getting this medicine directly to those who need deep healing.
Incubate research
We run the nation's first collection of real-world studies inside a legal, publicly available psychedelic therapy model — partnering with leading universities and scientists.
Shape policy
We inform lawmakers and build the evidence and datasets needed to bring psychedelic healthcare into insurance coverage — so access can scale far beyond philanthropy.
We exist to accelerate the safe integration of psychedelics into healthcare and society — driving research, informing lawmakers, and funding care for those who can't afford it.
A no-cost legal psilocybin retreat — July 2026
Through the Inward Dive Fund, we're offering a fully funded, legal psilocybin retreat for formerly incarcerated and justice-impacted people — held in a small cohort, with reverence and care.
- Open to people 21+ who are justice-impacted, with financial need — anywhere in the U.S. and beyond
- Grants cover the cost of licensed facilitation; the psilocybin itself is donated
- Led by facilitator Henry Fields, with preparation and ongoing integration support
Moments from the work
Scenes from the legal psilocybin journeys, retreats, and community our funds make possible across Oregon.
Over $1,000,000 in care — and we're just getting started
In 2024 and 2025, the Sheri Eckert Foundation funded and helped organize the nation's first real-world research projects in Oregon's legal psychedelic therapy model — while putting money directly into the hands of the people who need it most.
Between 2021 and 2023, our Fellowship Program issued 76 needs-based scholarships totaling $300,000, seeding Oregon's new healthcare model with a diverse cohort of facilitators who've now graduated from nearly every Oregon-licensed training school. See the full impact report →
Getting medicine to the people who need it
We believe getting money directly to people who want this medicine — but normally couldn't access it — is the best way to create healing now. Each fund covers facilitation costs for those experiencing financial hardship or from underserved communities, on a sliding scale.
Inward Dive Fund
Created with facilitator Henry Fields for people impacted by the justice system — the formerly incarcerated, their families and loved ones, attorneys, advocates, and corrections staff. Grants cover licensed facilitation; the medicine is donated. Includes a no-cost July 2026 retreat.
Grants typically $500–$2,000 Learn more Community leadersCommunity Leaders Resilience Fund
For nonprofit, religious, environmental, and public-service leaders carrying burnout and the weight of their communities. Covers group facilitation, lodging at FernLove, meals, and a Community Steward. 2026 cohorts include Jewish, BIPOC, environmental, LGBTQ+, and Christian leaders.
Grants up to $3,300 per leader Learn more Needs-based grantsPsilocybin Access Fund
Our flagship statewide fund — a sliding scale for psilocybin services that has already received 481 applications and issued or earmarked $674,000 in grants to over 100 people, with more on the way.
$674,000 issued or earmarked Learn more LiberationSoul Liberation Fund
Expanding access for communities who have long been excluded from safe, supported, and legal psychedelic care.
Sliding-scale support Learn moreThe first real-world psychedelic research, in the open
For over 50 years, promising psychedelic medicine was kept from the public by unscientific prohibitions, propaganda, and high costs. As a nonprofit incubator, we're changing that — running studies inside Oregon's legal, publicly available model rather than only the laboratory.
We've partnered on studies with leading institutions and organizations:
Why more research?
Decades of FDA-regulated studies have supported only about a thousand participants in dosage sessions. Meanwhile, over 30 million Americans report having used psychedelics. The data generated within Oregon's regulated model may help answer essential questions of safety, benefit, and access — for the whole field.
FernLove — where our grantees receive care
Grantees of our Community Leaders Resilience Fund and Inward Dive Fund receive their psilocybin care at FernLove — our service-center partner and one of the most extraordinary settings in the state.
FernLove is Oregon's only licensed psilocybin service center with on-site accommodations, set within 30 acres of pristine forest about an hour west of Portland, near Henry Hagg Lake. It works exclusively with licensed facilitators and psilocybin from licensed manufacturers, and weaves time outdoors, gentle movement, and reflection into every journey.
From the calm of the Administration Room — a journey space styled like a yoga studio, with dimmable light, soft furnishings, and curated sound — to the solitude of the cabins and Airstreams and the quiet of the on-site trails, every detail supports the work of healing in nature's serene embrace.
FernLove is an independent, state-licensed Oregon psilocybin service center. The Sheri Eckert Foundation partners with FernLove to host CLR Fund and Inward Dive Fund journey days and lodging.
A clear path to 2030: insurance-covered care
While we create access for hundreds of people who otherwise couldn't receive psychedelic therapy, we're building the research and datasets needed to bring it into insurance coverage — the same path walked by acupuncture and naturopathy. We believe coverage is inevitable. We believe it could arrive by 2030.
Seed the field · 2021–2023
Fund facilitator training so a diverse first cohort can serve Oregon's new model — 76 scholarships, $300,000 awarded.
Increase access now · underway
Build a statewide sliding scale for psilocybin services while catalyzing the first-of-their-kind research projects the field needs. In 2026, we begin expanding to Colorado.
Insurance coverage · goal by 2030
Use the evidence to bring psychedelic healthcare into coverage — so access can scale, equitably, far beyond what philanthropy alone can reach.
We helped bring Horizons to the Northwest
Alongside Horizons PBC, the Sheri Eckert Foundation co-created and hosted the first two Horizons Northwest conferences — the largest psychedelic learning and community event in the Pacific Northwest — both held at the historic Portland Art Museum in downtown Portland. The inaugural gathering opened in September 2022, followed by the second annual conference in December 2023.
Across three days each year, thousands of people from across the country and beyond explored Oregon's first-in-the-nation Psilocybin Services Act, the latest psychedelic science, and the place of these medicines in culture and community. A share of every conference's proceeds funds our needs-based scholarships — so the more people who gather, the more healing it supports.
Revisit Horizons Northwest
The conference's home — three days exploring Oregon's psilocybin model, the science, and psychedelics in the world.
Visit the conference Recorded talksWatch the 2023 sessions
Full keynotes, science briefings, and panels, recorded live at the Portland Art Museum.
Watch on YouTube
What I learned is anyone that has contact with the justice system is holding trauma and stress.— Henry Fields, lead of the Inward Dive Fund
I really wish psilocybin services could be more accessible for people above ground… it was the most tremendous gift I think I've ever received. People need this, because the world is only getting harder to deal with.— A community leader, two months after a psilocybin session in Oregon
Sheri Eckert
The Sheri Eckert Foundation was established in 2021 to honor Sheri's legacy and fulfill a clearly stated wish. A co-creator of Oregon's Measure 109, she spoke often of building an institution — guided by on-the-ground community leaders — to support facilitator training, community education, and service delivery for underserved populations.
She passed away in December 2020, and is remembered for championing the unique spirit residing in each of us, and for helping deliver the nation's first above-ground psychedelic therapy framework — a program infused with her perseverance, integrity, and loving, inclusive embrace.
“If you take the time to explore yourself, to listen to your spirit, to walk among the many less frequented paths within your mind, I am sure you will be amazed at the mesmerizing beauty you will find.”Sheri Eckert
Your gift becomes someone's healing
Every dollar supports equitable access to legal psilocybin services for people with financial need — and helps build the research that brings coverage closer. Our funds run entirely on donations, so the more we raise, the more grants we can offer.
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In loving memory of Sheri Eckert