In June 2020, we raised $2,497,852 in donations and pledges from over 2,500 supporters. Of that amount, $2.2 million was pledged toward our $30 million Capstone Campaign to complete FDA-regulated Phase 3 clinical trials and make MDMA a medicine.
We have been offered an all-or-nothing, 90-day, $10 million challenge grant to help complete the $30 million Capstone Campaign. The conditions of the challenge require MAPS to raise $10 million in donations and multi-year pledges in order to unlock the $10 million in challenge funds. The challenge grant is funded by Tim Ferriss, James Bailey (Founder and Managing Partner, Bail Capital), Peter Rahal (Founder, RxBar), Blake Mycoskie (Founder and Chief Shoe Giver, TOMS), and John A. Griffin (Founder, Blue Ridge Capital), who each offered $1 million, with $5 million from The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation. We have until September 10, 2020, to raise $10 million and unlock the $10 million challenge pledge.
Since the campaign launch on June 12, we’ve already raised over $5.6 million from over 2,180 donors. Special thanks to the supporters listed under Phase 3 (Capstone Challenge) who have already pledged $1,000 or more towards the $10 million challenge. Visit maps.org/capstone for more information.
Support in June also included $248,057 for general support, $760 for MDMA-related projects, $30 for the Zendo Project, and $250 for ibogaine research. An additional $15,206 was raised by organizations that MAPS fiscally sponsors including the Bay Area Healers Resilience Fund ($19,704), VETS ($2,150), Expanded Access Clinics ($300), Better Living Through Chemistry ($250), Brooklyn Psychedelic Society ($250), MAPS Canada ($30), ICEERS ($10), Bluelight ($10), and Kaphi ($2).
The positive outcome of the interim analysis in March 2020 indicates that with sufficient funding, we have an excellent chance of generating additional promising safety and efficacy data and potentially receiving FDA approval for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD by the end of 2022.
We appreciate donations of any size and are particularly grateful to the following supporters for their generous contributions of $1,000 or more:
Capstone Campaign – Phase 3
- Anonymous ($750,000)
- George Goldsmith and Katya Malievskaia ($300,000)
- Will Sterling ($250,000)
- Inkinen Family DAF ($135,000)
- Evolve Foundation ($100,000)
- Kevin Ryan and Pascaline Servan-Schreiber ($100,000)
- The Simon Family ($100,000)
- Michael Sobeck ($100,000)
- Mind Medicine Australia ($40,000)
- Rollo ($25,000)
- Anonymous ($20,000)
- Justin Mares ($15,000)
- Robert Anton Patterson ($10,000)
- Luke Whiting ($10,000)
- David Walker ($6,666.66)
- Anonymous ($6,666.66)
- Karen Legotte Langdon ($5,150)
- Philip Daniel Dracht and Heather Barrett Huffman-Dracht ($5,000)
- John and Riley Pfeiffer ($5,000)
- Jim O’Shaughnessy ($5,000)
- Carter Thomas ($5,000)
- Anonymous ($5,000)
- James Seagraves ($3,000)
- Andrew Ryan ($2,500)
- James Do ($1,545)
- Payam Panbechi ($1,234)
- Jonas Larsen ($1,181)
- Debora Birnbaum ($1,030)
- David Bradley ($1,030)
- Juan Cappello ($1,030)
- Erin Cowan ($1,030)
- William Phipps Mcgrail ($1,030)
- Kevin and Jilliane Wiley ($1,030)
- Anonymous ($1,030)
- Pearl Baker-Katz ($1,000)
- Michael Good ($1,000)
- Google, Inc. ($1,000)
- Connor Grooms ($1,000)
- Angela Gu ($1,000)
- Vince Pecoraro ($1,000)
- Fabrice Penot ($1,000)
- Jerod Scott ($1,000)
- Tomer Shekel ($1,000)
- Wes Thompson ($1,000)
- Watson Law Office ($1,000)
- Sonia Weiss Pick ($1,000)
- Nicholas Whalen ($1,000)
- Laura Wiginton ($1,000)
- Anonymous ($1,000)
Unrestricted
- Evolve Foundation ($200,000)
- Anonymous ($9,387)
- Foster Family Giving Fund ($2,500)
- Buckmaster Foundation ($2,000)
- Michael Bestvina ($1,500)
- SPORE ($1,317)
- Jahaziel Lara Hernandez ($1,000)
- MUD\WTR ($1,000)
- Jiri Techet ($1,000)
- Anonymous ($1,000)
Fiscal Sponsor Grantees
- The Omidyar Group – Bay Area Healers Resilience Fund ($6,000)
- Bruce Linton – VETS ($2,000)
- Anonymous – Bay Area Healers Resilience Fund ($2,000)
- Katrina Gordon – Bay Area Healers Resilience Fund ($1,500)
- Nick Sullivan – Bay Area Healers Resilience Fund ($1,500)
- Banker Fund for Goodness – Bay Area Healers Resilience Fund ($1,000)
- Matt GA – Bay Area Healers Resilience Fund ($1,000)
- Charles Johnston – Bay Area Healers Resilience Fund ($1,000)
- Anonymous – Bay Area Healers Resilience Fund ($1,000)
MAPS relies on the generosity of individual donors to achieve its mission. Psychedelic science is again being conducted under federal guidelines, but no funding for psychedelic psychotherapy research is yet available from governments or major foundations.
Together, we can legalize psychedelic medicine.
Donate now at maps.org/donate. Learn how to include MAPS in your will or estate plans.
