The academy’s basic funding is provided by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Initial funding between 2005 and 2007 was made possible by grants from the Hamburgische Stiftung für Wissenschaften, Entwicklung und Kultur Helmut und Hannelore Greve (Hamburg Foundation for Science, Development, and Culture Helmut and Hannelore Greve). 

Further funding for the academy, especially for its scientific project work, is provided by raising third-party funding from, for example, the academies’ programme of the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanties. 

The Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg would like to thank its sponsors for their generous support: 

• The Hamburgische Stiftung für Wissenschaften, Entwicklung und Kultur Helmut und Hannelore Greve (Hamburg Foundation for Science, Development, and Culture Helmut and Hannelore Greve)
• Hamburger Sparkasse
• Michael Liebelt