Funding for HydroSHEDS v1 has been provided by World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Washington DC, USA; Diversey, Inc. (formerly JohnsonDiversey, Inc., and Sealed Air, Corp.), Fort Mill SC, USA; and McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

The HydroBASINS product has been developed with additional financial support from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Cambridge, UK; and the EU BioFresh project, Berlin, Germany.

HydroSHEDS v1 has been developed by and on behalf of World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Washington DC, USA, in collaboration with McGill University, Montreal, Canada where parts of the data were processed. Initial hosting of the database was provided by the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Data Center of the US Geological Survey (USGS), Sioux Falls SD, USA. Input data sources were provided by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia; the Centre for Environmental Systems Research (CESR), Kassel, Germany; and the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Funding for HydroSHEDS v2 has been provided by World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Washington DC, USA; the German Aerospace Agency (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; The Nature Conservancy, Arlington VA, USA; Google LLC, Mountain View CA, USA; Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA; Anheuser-Busch InBev, Brussels, Belgium; and ESRI, Redlands, California.

HydroSHEDS v2 is currently developed in a collaborative effort between World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Washington DC, USA; the German Aerospace Agency (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; McGill University, Montreal, Canada; and Confluvio Consulting, Montreal, Canada.