How to donate to Folding@Home

Some people have asked how they could donate money to help Folding@Home. First and foremost, you can help by running our client software. This software is free, but for each computer participating, we get a commensurate boost in our computational ability. For all those who have run the client, we thank you!

For those of you who would like to donate money, you can make a tax deductible donation to Folding@Home (via the research group of Vijay Pande) by donating to Stanford University. Stanford is a 5013c non-profit entity and thus donations of money is tax deductable. Stanford's federal tax i.d. number is 94-1156365. Many companies help individuals donate to Stanford by providing matching funds. You can check to see if your company matches funds by clicking here.

If you're interested, please go to Stanford's donation page and fill out the web form. Please select the "other" category in the Designation box and write in the "Additional information" please designate Folding@Home's fund code GAHIQ or the fund title " Folding@Home Computing Project Gift Fund." You can find more information by clicking here, from the example below, or at Stanford's gift giving FAQ. Please also see the example at the end of this web page.

What would the donation go to? We do have needs big (eg servers, graduate students, etc) and small (memory, hard drives, backup). For example, each year we generate 10,000 gigabytes of data and just backing that up costs $5,000 in LTO-2 tapes. Every little bit helps!

Thanks for your support!


The Folding@Home team