Funding for the SEARCA Graduate Study Program comes from Special Funds through the SEAMEO Education Development Fund (SEDF) and donations generated by the SEAMEO Secretariat (SEAMES) in Bangkok, Thailand. The fund consists of contributions from SEAMEO member countries as well as associate members (e.g., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, Norway and the Netherlands), friendly governments, organization, and individuals.

Other funds are directly derived by SEARCA from interested governments, institutions, and organizations.

The following organizations and institutions had funded SEARCA graduate scholarships:

• United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
• nternational Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada
• German Foundation for International Development (DSE)
• Ford Foundation
• Fundacion Servicio Para El Agricultor
• Jesuit Association
• Maekhong Project of ESCAP (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific)
• Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) of Thailand
• Australian Cooperation with the National Agricultural Project of Thailand (ACNARP)
• Rubber Research Institute of Thailand (RRIT)
• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
• Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID)
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
• Higher Education Project (HEP) of the Ministry of National Education, Government of Indonesia
• Ministry of Forestry and Estate (MOFE), Government of Indonesia
• Centre for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture and Forestry (CeTSAF), Germany
• International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI)
• Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Agricultural Research (DA-BAR), Government of the Philippines
• ASEAN Foundation (AF)
• The governments of Brunei Darussalam, France, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, the Philippines, and Thailand

At present, in addition to the SEDF, the DAAD continue to support the Program. Currently, the Center is administering 36 scholarships supported by the DAAD, 11 of which were awarded to nationals of Timor-Leste. The DAAD had also funded the MS programs of six Timorese who have already completed their programs.

SEARCA is extremely grateful to all these institutions for supporting its human resource development program. The Center pledges to continue the excellent service it has been known for in scholarship recruitment and administration. It will continue to assist the SEAMEO region in producing highly trained manpower in agriculture toward the formation of a cadre of high-caliber professionals who are capable of pioneering activities to solve poverty and poverty-related problems in their respective countries, in particular, and in Southeast Asia, in general.