HEMI has a significant portfolio of externally funded, sponsored research activities by the following organizations:
- Federal Agencies
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- Department of Energy
- US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM)
- DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
- DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory – Army Research Office
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- National Institutes of Health
- National Science Foundation
- Office of Naval Research
- National Labs
- Idaho National Laboratory
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Sandia National Laboratories
- Industry
- 3M
- Akita Innovations
- Corning, Inc
- Draper Laboratory
- Hanwha Group
- Innovision Engineering
- Nalas Engineering
- NBM Technologies
- Foundations
- Brightfocus Foundation
- Clinton Foundation
- Cohen Fund
- Ford Foundation
- Other
- Biscotti JHTV funds
- Johns Hopkins – Applied Physics Laboratory
