Organizations and people comprising the LIVE team created LIVE's foundational elements with support from NASA, NSF, Microsoft Research, the Sloan Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Jackson Laboratory, Harvard University, and others. 

Additional funding is needed for the infrastructure and personnel who will build out robust, flexible, extensible versions of LIVE Environments. 

Two letters related to funding were submitted in early 2024.  

1. A letter requesting support for infrastructure to support astronomy, biology, and GIS applications of LIVE is being sent by Prof. Alyssa Goodman (Harvard) on behalf of our collaboration to NSF TIP.

2. Prof. Ed Liu (JAX) is leading a request to ARPA-H leaders to suggest consideration of funding for the far-reaching pathology and spatial transcriptomics applications enabled by a build-out of LIVE.  

Later in 2024, Dr. Catherine Zucker (Smithsonian) will lead a proposal to support the science enabled by LIVE Astro, as "MilkyWay3D.org." LIVE GIS has several demonstration projects already in progress rather than a single marquee project. These projects include NASA-funded Cosmic Data Stories focused on earth satellite data, projects in remote sensing around snow cover and agricultural yield underway at the Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at Berkeley (where Co-PI Perez is Co-director), and a number of studies relying on the CryoCloud, a cloud-based service built on Juptyer notebooks that is accelerating studies of the earth’s cryosphere. 

The relationship between the various proposals underway and planned is shown below.