Grant and Project Highlights
Total Giving to Date: $743,225
Research and Models of Care: $561,500
Biocultural Conservation: $62,225
Education and Advocacy: $79,500
Other Community Support: $40,000
Psychedelics in Recovery
Psychedelics in Recovery Inaugural Convention
Contribution Amount: $10,000
Year Awarded: 2026
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University of Pennsylvania
Project: Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy for Opioid Use Disorder: Restoring Cognitive and Emotional Flexibility to Support Recovery
Category: Research
Amount Awarded: $45,000
Root Relationship Contribution: Mushroom biocultures
Year Awarded: 2026
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Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Project: BIPOD: Buprenorphine Induction with Psilocybin for OUD, a Randomized Controlled Trial
Category: Research
Amount Awarded: $43,500
Root Relationship Contribution: Mushroom biocultures
Year Awarded: 2026
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Survivorship Collective
Project: RISE: Retreat-based Investigation of Survivor Experiences with Psilocybin
Category: Models of Care
Amount Awarded: $14,000
Root Relationship Contribution: Mushroom biocultures
Year Awarded: 2026
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Idryma
Project: Development of training and certification program for ibogaine treatment practitioners
Category: Models of Care
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Root Relationship Contribution: Iboga biocultures
Year Awarded: 2025
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Good Medicine Collective / Riverbird Clinic
Project: GATHER: Groups Accessing Their Healing Experiences through Recovery
Category: Models of Care
Amount Awarded: $34,000
Root Relationship Contribution: Huachuma biocultures
Year Awarded: 2025
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National Psychedelics Association Foundation
Project: Rescheduling Psilocybin to Help Address the Opioid Crisis
Category: Advocacy
Amount Awarded: $20,000
Root Relationship Contribution: Mushroom biocultures
Year Awarded: 2025
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University of California Irvine Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute
Study: Central Neural Actions of Ibogaine in Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)
Category: Research
Amount Awarded: $50,000
Root Relationship Contribution: Iboga biocultures
Year Awarded: 2025
Status: In progress
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Heroic Hearts Project
Study: Veterans Healing Retreat
Category: Research / Models of Care
Amount Awarded: $40,000
Root Relationship Contribution: Ayahuasca biocultures
Year Awarded: 2025
Status: Completed in 2025
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Usona Institute
Study: 5-meo-DMT Clinical Trials
Category: Research
Amount Awarded: $100,000
Co-funded with ShineMaker Foundation
Root Relationship Contribution: Toad biocultures
Year Awarded: 2024
Status: In progress
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The University of New Mexico
Study: MDMA-Assisted Therapy 6 to 12 months After Childbirth for People with Co-Occurring Opioid Use and Post Traumatic Stress Disorders
Category: Research
Amount Awarded: $25,000
Root Relationship Contribution: Toad biocultures and Ayahuasca biocultures
Year Awarded: 2024
Status: In progress
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The University of British Columbia
Study: Standardized natural psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for tapering of opioid medication in patients with chronic pain: an open-label feasibility study
Category: Research
Amount Awarded: $85,000 – co-funded with ShineMaker Foundation
Root Relationship Contribution: Mushroom biocultures – co-funded with ShineMaker Foundation
Year Awarded: 2023
Status: In progress
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Psychae Institute
Study: Development of protocol for DMT-harmaloid Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: an open labelled pilot trial
Category: Research
Amount Awarded: $15,000
Root Relationship Contribution: Ayahuasca biocultures
Year Awarded: 2023
Status: Protocol complete
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Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND) Program
Study: Assessing the Impact of a Custom-Formulated, Ultra-High Cannabidiol Product for Chronic Pain
Category: Research
Amount Awarded: $25,000
Root Relationship Contribution: Peyote biocultures
Year Awarded: 2023
Status: In progress
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University of Wisconsin Program for Research, Outreach, Therapeutics, and Education in the Addictions (PROTEA)
Study: Adjunctive Effects of Psilocybin and Buprenorphine
Category: Research
Amount Awarded: $25,000
Root Relationship Contribution: Mushroom biocultures
Year Awarded: 2022
Status: In progress
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The International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Service (ICEERS)
Study: Ibogaine for Treatment of Opioid Dependence
Category: Research
Amount Awarded: $50,000
Root Relationship Contribution: Iboga biocultures
Year Awarded: 2022
Status: Preliminary results; final results to be published.
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