| Funding by Year ($M) | Total | |||||||
| Agency | Country | Institutions | FY00 | FY01 | FY02 | FY03 | FY04 | ($M) |
| Smithsonian | USA | SAO | 0.27 | 0.06 | 1.62 | 4.00 | 0.42 | 6.37 |
| DOE | USA | SAO | 2.52 | 1.32 | 1.45 | 1.28 | 0.81 | 7.38 |
| Purdue U. | ||||||||
| Iowa State U. | ||||||||
| Washington U. | ||||||||
| NSF | USA | U. Utah | 0.42 | 1.22 | 1.70 | 1.52 | 1.09 | 5.95 |
| U. Chicago | ||||||||
| PPARC | UK | U. Leeds | 0.22 | 0.17 | 0.09 | 0.27 | 0.17 | 0.93 |
| Enterprise-Ireland | Ireland | UCD | 0.06 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.15 |
| NUI | ||||||||
| * The SAO contribution will be partially for the facility ($4.3M) and partially for Major Scientific Instrumentation ($1.9M). | ||||||||