Trustees include Tom Chandos (Chairman), Sir David Bell, Felicity Fairbairn, John Fairbairn, Beatrice Hollond, James Hughes-Hallett, Thomas Hughes-Hallett, Kate Lampard, Sir Jonathan Phillips, Baroness Linklater and William Sieghart.
Its residency programme is financially supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
Initially financed by a group of philanthropists, later financial support included charitable trusts and foundations including: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and the Big Lottery Fund.
National Science Foundation | Ford Foundation | Rockefeller Foundation | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | New York Foundation for the Arts | Mozilla Foundation | Guggenheim Foundation | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | Wikimedia Foundation | Apache Software Foundation | foundation | Make-A-Wish Foundation | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | Clinton Foundation | Open Software Foundation | Konex Foundation | Foundation series | Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | Carnegie Foundation | Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation | McKnight Foundation | Japan Foundation | Ingram Merrill Foundation | Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year | Free Software Foundation | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | British Heart Foundation |