Everything here is free. Membership is what keeps it that way.
Psychedelic Vets is veteran-led. Membership doesn't buy access — nothing on this site is behind a wall, and nothing ever will be. It pays for the research, and it pays for a fellow veteran's treatment. Give what fits, from $10 a month.
Choose what you can carry
There are no tiers and no upgrades. Everyone gets the same thing: the whole platform, free, forever. The only difference is how much of the work you're able to fund.
Fund the research. Cover a veteran.
$300 a year toward research, treatment, and the endowment.
A single contribution, any amount. You'll set the figure on the next screen — there's no minimum and no follow-up billing.
Giving more than $100 a month? Get in touch and we'll set it up directly.
Cancel any time — monthly contributions stop on request and nothing renews without you. Psychedelic Vets is building toward nonprofit status; until that is in place, contributions are not tax-deductible.
Every dollar, accounted for
We publish the split and hold ourselves to it. Tap any slice to see what it does and why it's there. The largest share funds the Vanguard Grants. This is an annual allocation of net funds, not a slice taken off each payment — small amounts are pooled until a grant is large enough to matter. The endowment isn’t counted in the 80%, because it’s held rather than spent. (Card processing, about 3%, comes off the top first.)
Grants to researchers, treatment scholarships, and the platform itself — the work, together.
Where the work actually happens
Not perks. Consequences. Every line below is something the money changes.
It keeps everything free
The studies directory, the legal map, the centers list, the Library, Field Notes, The Debrief — all of it stays open, with no account and no paywall, for the veteran who could never pay for it.
It funds the research
The Vanguard Grants — competitive awards to qualitative researchers, chosen by an independent panel. There are thirteen qualitative studies of psilocybin-assisted therapy in the entire literature. We pay for the fourteenth.
It covers a veteran who can't
Scholarship grants go to established veteran-serving nonprofits that handle the logistics of legal, clinically guided treatment. We fund; they deliver the care.
It builds something permanent
A share of every dollar goes into an invested endowment. Patience capital — so the work survives a slow year, and eventually funds itself in perpetuity.
You get counted
Your name goes on the supporter wall if you want it there — first name, full name, unit, era, or simply Anonymous. Entirely your call, and you can change it any time.
You get the receipts
Every grant is announced publicly in The Debrief the week it's made, and a full accounting of what came in and where it went is published once a year. Numbers, not adjectives.
From your card to the cause
Three steps, no fine print underneath them.
You choose an amount
Monthly or once, $10 or $500. Card details go straight to Stripe — they never touch our servers, and there's no account to create.
It's pooled and allocated
Funds are held and allocated against the published pledge — 80% to research, scholarships, and the endowment — then released as grants once a meaningful amount has gathered.
The grant is announced
When money moves, it's named in The Debrief that week: who received it, how much, and what it's for. The annual accounting reconciles the whole year.
The supporter wall
Members who chose to be named. Everyone else is here too — just quietly.
What to know before you join
What do I actually get for my money?
Nothing that other people don't get. That's deliberate. Every page, tool, and directory on this site is free to everyone, with no login, and it will stay that way. What membership buys is the work itself: the research getting funded, a veteran's treatment getting paid for, and this platform staying online and independent. If you want a name on a wall, you can have that too.
Is there a members-only community?
No, and we'd rather say so plainly than list one we haven't built. A peer community for veterans working through this material deserves real moderation and real crisis coverage, not a forum switched on to justify a price tag. There's a second reason: the same person runs the research, and a space where current and prospective study participants talk to their own investigator raises questions we're not willing to hand-wave. If that changes, it'll be announced before it's promised.
Does membership enroll me in a study?
No. Membership never enrolls you in any research, and it gives you no advantage in being selected. Studies always run through the research team's own screening and consent process. We're the map — never the gatekeeper — and we don't collect your health data.
Are contributions tax-deductible?
Not at this time. Psychedelic Vets is building toward nonprofit status; until that's in place, contributions are not tax-deductible and we won't issue a receipt that implies otherwise. This page gets updated the day it changes.
What are the Vanguard Grants?
The largest share of every contribution funds competitive grants to qualitative researchers — the interview and phenomenological work that explains what trials can only measure. Applications are scored by an independent panel against a published rubric, and the founder is ineligible for the first two cycles. The first cycle opens when the fund reaches $10,000. The full program is here →
Where do the scholarship dollars go?
To established veteran-serving nonprofits that already run legal, clinically guided treatment and carry the logistics — intake, screening, travel, aftercare. Recipients are named publicly when each grant is made rather than listed in advance; an organization should hear from us directly before it reads its own name on a funding page. We fund; they deliver the care. You're not paying us to provide treatment.
How do I know the pledge is kept?
Because every grant is announced in The Debrief the week it's made, and the annual accounting reconciles the year. Both are public — not a members-only dashboard. If the numbers ever stop appearing, that's your answer.
What happens to my money before there's enough to grant?
It's held and allocated against the pledge, then released once a grant is large enough to actually do something. A $40 wire to a research fund helps nobody; a pooled grant does. The allocation is tracked from the first dollar, and the annual accounting shows both what came in and what is still held.
Can I give once instead of monthly?
Yes, any amount. Monthly is more useful for planning grants, but a one-time contribution is just as welcome and carries exactly the same pledge.
Can I give in honor of someone?
Yes. There's an optional line at checkout for a name — in honor of someone still here, or in memory of someone who isn't. If you'd like that name read into the annual accounting, or placed on the supporter wall in their honor rather than yours, say so there and we'll do it.
Can I cancel?
Any time, no conversation required. Monthly contributions stop on request and nothing renews on its own.
Is this a substance source or medical advice?
Never. Everything here is education and peer-reviewed research only — no sourcing of substances, no medical advice, no endorsement of any particular study or provider.
Not everything that helps is money
Some of the most useful things anyone has done for this platform cost nothing at all.
- Send it to someone who's looking. A veteran three weeks into searching for a study, who hasn't found this yet. Getting the map to that person is the entire job.
- Tell a researcher the Vanguard Grants are coming. Especially an early-career one doing qualitative work without funding — they're exactly who the fund is for, and they're the hardest to reach.
- Tell us what we got wrong. A study that closed, a center that moved, a law that changed. A directory is only as good as the corrections people bother to send.
- Point us toward someone who should be involved. A researcher, a service officer, a veteran who'd steer this better than we would.
- Hold the work. If prayer is your practice, it belongs on this list. It counts here.
None of these need a card, an account, or a conversation with us first. Reach out whenever something occurs to you.
The research is happening. Help pay for it.
Ten dollars a month keeps the lights on. A hundred moves a study forward. Whatever you can carry is the right amount, and it all goes to the same place.
Not in a position to give? Get the free weekly research dispatch — that door is open to everyone, always.
Psychedelic Vets is a veteran-led membership organization. Contributions support psychedelic research and veteran treatment scholarships through grants to universities and established nonprofit organizations, and keep this platform free and open to everyone. Educational only — not medical advice, not an endorsement of any study or provider, and never facilitation of obtaining any substance. Psychedelic Vets is building toward nonprofit status; until that is in place, contributions are not tax-deductible.
