DoD is the only organization that is currently providing me with grant funding... (and not much). Microsoft also donated some money to Sage this week! And of course there is Google Summer of Code, which is sponsoring many students to work on Sage this summer.

[Edit: Added Microsoft/Google.]

I'm not familiar enough, but is there any path for you make it more marketable with things like: -some sort of iOS/android app -somehow tying in computing modularization? I'm thinking like tensorflow or other such things -picking off modeling tasks as use-cases. I get this from my step dad whose lab work has been in modeling..well, this: http://esd1.lbl.gov/research/projects/ascem/