The SPRINT website says it is a NIH study, so it would appear that some/all of the funding comes from the US federal government, but any preconceived ideas probably are those of the investigators' usual sources of funding.

The study coordinating center is Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Principal investigator: David Reboussin, Ph.D).

The SPRINT study clinical center networks are:

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio (Principal investigator: Jackson T. Wright, M.D., Ph.D.)

Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee (Principal investigator: William C. Cushman, M.D.)

University of Alabama, Birmingham (Principal investigator: Suzanne Oparil, M.D.)

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (Principal investigator: Alfred K. Cheung, M.D.)

Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Principal investigator: David C. Goff, Jr., M.D., Ph.D.)