The non-governmental international project was launched in 2010. As of January 2018, it listed 161 institutions, all of them universities and university-affiliated institutions, except for IBM Research and the Atlanta Zoo. Crowdsourcing has come from John Templeton Foundation, the W. M. Keck Foundation, the Argonne National Laboratory by the U.S. Dept. of Energy, the Australian Research Council, the Tula Foundation, and the Samuel Lawrence Foundation.