I was a Beta tester for BOINC and founder of team BOINC@AUSTRALIA http://www.boinc-australia.net/ currently crunching in most of the BOINC projects. I am an Aussie currently living in Canada. Born in Canada over fifty years ago, lived in Australia most of my life, including 20+ years in the Australian Defence Force (Army).
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.