He is founder of The Allen Institute for BrainScience, a foundation dedicated to research on brain functions and the Experience Music Project a music museum in Seattle and the Paul G.
Private collaborators include the Allen Institute for BrainScience, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Kavli Foundation, and Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
The money to study the brain would support research by the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National ScienceFoundation.