This is a great project and I wish more would do it.
My opinion on other life, is that we can not be the only one here, just on basic statistics there has to be some kind of life somewhere in the Universe.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.