Eating disorders are among the deadliest illnesses in psychiatry — and among the least funded. For everyone still waiting on the near shore, something is being built for the crossing.
They’re called “treatment-resistant” — as if the failure were theirs. It isn’t. Anorexia still has no FDA-approved medication; the science simply hasn’t finished crossing, and the care that exists is often out of reach. We’re starting something for them. Stay in the current.
Investigator-initiated eating disorder research first — new treatments, mechanisms, outcomes — with grants across wider mental health where the science demands it.
Decades of real-world eating disorder treatment records — among the largest clinical datasets in the field — are waiting to become evidence. We fund the fellowships and the science that will let them speak.
Independent support for rigorous interventional and psychedelic research in eating disorders — the mechanisms, the trials, and the unflinching study of what these medicines can and cannot do.
Direct grants that help people with severe, enduring eating disorders — and other treatment-resistant conditions — reach lawful, effective care through new pathways at home, or across borders when home isn’t enough.
Farther Shore Institute advances eating disorder research and helps people with severe, treatment-resistant conditions reach effective care — wherever it exists — while funding the wider mental health science the field needs. Independent. Evidence-first. Named for pāramitā — “gone to the farther shore.”
Farther Shore builds open infrastructure for the field — free, independent, and clinician-curated. The first vessels are in the water.
Our flagship: an open home for eating disorder science — the research library of every ketamine and psychedelic study, the guidelines, a treatment directory, free clinician education, and validated screening tools.
Visit edcurrents.org →Direct access grants for people with severe, enduring eating disorders and other treatment-resistant conditions — helping them reach lawful, effective care at home or, when needed, across borders.
Learn about founding support →Eating disorder research grants and a dedicated postdoctoral fellowship — turning decades of clinical data into published evidence — alongside grants in wider mental health science.
Register interest →Understanding the scale is the first act of advocacy. These are the U.S. figures — not distant abstractions, but the neighbors, coworkers, and families this crossing is being built for.
Sources: Deloitte Access Economics / STRIPED (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), Social & Economic Cost of Eating Disorders in the United States (2020)1; anorexia mortality: Arcelus 2011, Chesney 2014.2
Eating disorders sit inside a wider mental-health access crisis. Having a diagnosable condition and getting care are two different things — each grid is 100 people who needed help; teal reached treatment, coral did not (SAMHSA 2024).
Who reaches care depends heavily on who you are and where you live. Among adults with mental illness, the share receiving treatment varies sharply.
Share these numbers. Challenge the myth that eating disorders are a choice, a phase, or a look. Point someone toward help — and if you or someone you love is struggling, reaching out is the single most effective first step.
We are assembling a founding circle of donors who believe people with eating disorders deserve science that keeps moving and care they can actually reach. Founding gifts build the first research grants, the first ED fellowships, and the first crossings.
Become a founding donor Gifts by check, DAF, or appreciated assets welcome · 501(c)(3) status pending — gifts deductible upon determination, retroactive to incorporationThe first crossing begins soon. Leave your address and be standing at the water’s edge when it does.
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