This is an awesome program for an awesome cause. I hope we find something useful out there. If there is not other life out there, then what are we here for?? It is hard to imagine that in this vast universe we are all alone. I seriously doubt it.
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.