Chacruna’s Fiscal Sponsorship program aims to elevate charitable projects that show the potential to make a difference in the the world. This program aims to support the growth of the psychedelic eco-system, help create collaboration and cross pollination between organizations, community building and push for a more equitable and just psychedelic future.
Chacruna has been supporting various organizations since 2021 and continues to welcome new ones. See the list below.
To inquiry about our fiscal sponsorship program, please write to: [email protected]
Current projects
The Medicinal Mindfulness Foundation
The Medicinal Mindfulness Foundation supports the convergence of individuals, communities and organizations to help organize an effective and skilled response to global crises by researching effective psychedelic journeywork practices in conjunction with mindfulness, psychotherapy, spirituality, ecological theory and advanced creative problem solving. The Medicinal Mindfulness Foundation envisions a world where society uses psychedelics in a sanctified manner for the benefit of humanity and our shared ecology.
Period of fiscal sponsorship: May 2024 – Present
Sacred Plant Alliance, Inc. (SPA)
Sacred Plant Alliance, Inc. (SPA) is an association of churches dedicated to mutual support and education and to ensuring the continued recognition of their right to religious exercise and the continued legal protection of the sincere, safe, and ethical ceremonial use of plant medicine sacraments within the United States. SPA serves as a community of mutual support between churches and provides a space for dialogue between religious leaders, for professional development of leaders, the development of best practices for church operations, and for accountability in the larger plant medicine community.
Period of fiscal sponsorship: July 2021 – Present
Previous Projects
Sacred Garden Community mission is to grow communities that benefit and thrive from informed, disciplined, safe and responsible use of sacraments. We offer our community practitioners the opportunity to connect with the Divine through intentional, respectful, and careful practice with the sacraments of our church. Specifically, SGC facilitates direct experience of and relationship to Divine presence for individuals and community, and life integration of the benefits this experience and relationship can bring. Our community envisions a world where the way is opened for everyone to directly experience divine presence within this lifetime. Together, we are committed to facilitating individual and community religious / spiritual practice and growth in respect, care, trust and integrity, within which our own lives and all of our relationships are consecrated through direct experience of and relationship to Divine presence.
Period of fiscal sponsorship: November 2023 – May 2024
Sequoia Center was founded as a response to the growing disparity between the need for psychedelic-assisted therapies and access to affordable and relevant services. As a nonprofit organization, we provide ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and related therapeutic services, with a focus on accessibility for LGBTQIA+ folx, BIPOC people, and Veterans, and conduct outcomes research in order to define best practices and ethical standards for the field of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. We also provide training and education on psychedelic-assisted therapies and related topics for practitioners, students, and the Portland community.
Period of fiscal sponsorship: December 2021 – November 2022
The One Acre Project is a conservation project that protects 70 acres of luscious land and ecosystem located in the Amazon Rainforest in Peru. One Acre Project highlights the importance of maintaining a healthy symbiotic relationship with medicines that support us, while doing the work on the frontlines to preserve an area of old-growth trees and maintaining the delicate balance of native forest trees, plants, birds, animals, insects, reptiles and waterways
Period of fiscal sponsorship: May 2021 – August 2021
The Church of the Eagle and the Condor
The Church of the Eagle and the Condor is a spiritual community based in Arizona. With the support Chacruna’s fiscal sponsorship, we raised almost $50,000 to pay the CEC’s out-of-pocket costs to sue the federal government for the legal right to use our sacrament Ayahuasca. In 2020, a shipment of ayahuasca was confiscated and destroyed by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. We filed suit in 2021 with a legal team of five lawyers, resulting in a favorable settlement with the U.S. government. In 2024, we received permits from the Drug Enforcement Administration to allow us to import and use ayahuasca in our ceremonial setting–breaking a 15-year stalemate with the government over the religious right to use ayahuasca. Chacruna was directly involved with our fundraising and was a co-requester in our attempts to access ayahuasca-related documents from the federal government through the Freedom of Information Act.
Period of fiscal sponsorship: February 2021 – September 2021
