I'm a 30-something IT Professional living in Northern Califorina, with my wife and son. I enjoy SETI as it was one of the first "distributed" computing projects out there, and to date, the most successful in terms of longevity and participation (in my mind.)
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.