Primary funding for Soundings was provided by
Over the years, Soundings received additional support from
- Annenberg Foundation
- Blumenthal Foundation
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation
- Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Fund Inc
- Eugene Garfield Foundation
- John M. Olin Foundation
- Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund
- Medicine and Society Project, a special program of the NC Humanities Council and the Duke Endowment
- Neutrogena Corporation
- North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching
- North Carolina Humanities Committee (now Council)
- North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co.
- Planters National Bank (acquired by RBC)
- Robert Bosch Foundation
- Rockefeller Foundation
- TIAA-CREF
- Time Warner Cablevision
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Education