Foundation Update · July 2026
Quietly building, and now ready to share.
$250,000+ in grants - applications now open. New access funds, new research and tools, a new site, and one thing we hope you’ll do first.
Friends, it’s been a while.
We wanted to be back in touch only once we had a rebuilt set of programming worth sharing, and now we do.
Over the past year we’ve been quietly building and refining: new access funds that are now accepting applications and issuing grants, our new research projects, results, and tools, a more comprehensive yet simpler website, and a more refined yet bolder vision for making psychedelic healthcare accessible to everyone in the United States.
Here’s an update on what we’ve been building, and immediately below is the thing we hope you’ll do first.
01 Community Leaders Resilience Fund
Eight retreats remain this year, for the leaders who support everyone else
Facilitated psilocybin retreats for community leaders by affinity: BIPOC, environmental, LGBTQ+, Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and nonprofit leaders. About eight leaders at each of the remaining retreats, up to $3,300 per person.
That is nearly $200,000 in grants still to give before year’s end. We hope you’ll share this opportunity with friends, family, colleagues.
Apply now (~25 mins) Explore the retreats →
Voices from the 2025 cohorts: “I no longer feel emotionally numb. I feel alive again.” “Demoralization became action.” “This experience bought me several more years in this role.”
02 Also new
A quick tour of what else is live
A more comprehensive yet simpler website. Every fund, every application, every research project, a click or two from the homepage. Take a look →
The Inward Dive Fund is open, with $100,000+ in psilocybin access grants for people who are formerly incarcerated or otherwise justice-impacted. Apply or share →
The Soul Liberation Fund is open, for people who’ve walked through addiction or homelessness and are ready for deeper healing. Apply or share →
The Research Incubator is accepting proposals, funding high-impact psychedelic research in the state model that widens access. Explore the Incubator →
We’ve launched a monthly sustainer campaign. The goal is 20% of our annual budget powered by monthly givers. Read why (June 22 post) →
03 Why we exist
A nonprofit built to widen the door
We carry the legacy of our namesake, Sheri Eckert, who created the nation’s first state-regulated psychedelic healthcare model, now being adopted in states across the country, to make psychedelic healthcare eventually affordable and legal for all Americans.
We do that by organizing and funding legal psychedelic care for people who could not otherwise access it, and by incubating the nation’s first real-world research to generate the evidence needed to build the system - state-by-state adoption with public funding - that makes that access possible.
We unite academic rigor, compassionate care, and policy innovation under one roof. And we do not just fund access - we catalyze and organize it: pairing grantees and clients into small, affinity-based groups, a careful practice undertaken with reverence, because research shows that group journeys, rather than solo sessions, can deepen healing outcomes for conditions like anxiety and depression.
04 The national landscape
Where psychedelic policy is moving, and where research can follow
U.S. psychedelic policy is no longer just an FDA-path story or a decriminalization story. It now has four distinct tracks: local personal-use protections, state research and task-force laws, state-regulated access programs, and the federal FDA drug-development pathway. By May 2026, the cycle had produced 115 psychedelics-related bills - 108 state and 7 federal - with 17 signed into law. Ibogaine emerged as the defining state-level theme, with 25 bills introduced across 14 states.
We’ve built a policy-mapping tool, updated biweekly from official government sources, that tracks psychedelic healthcare laws and patents state by state - including operational programs, new laws, recent legislative efforts, bills in motion, the federal pipeline, and developments around the world. Jump straight to the policy map →
05 If you feel called to give
Every dollar goes directly to someone’s care
Your dollars go directly to two things: covering healing for people who can’t access it, and high-impact research that expands access in Oregon and across the country. We are also beginning to build access programming and research incubation for both Colorado and New Mexico, slated to begin in 2027. We gratefully accept bequests and gifts of stock or other assets too, so just reach out.
Community Leaders Resilience Fund
Share / apply / explore
Several retreats remain this year, with room for about eight leaders at each, up to $3,300 per person. We have dozens of grants still to give before year’s end. If someone you know carries a community on their shoulders, send them this. That is our main ask.