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state funding

 
 
noun [U] GOVERNMENT, FINANCE

Definition

money that a government provides for something: The organization publishes a report on every school in England which receives state funding. → See also government funding
in the US, money that a state provides for something: The orchestra expects to lose part of its $100,000 in state funding. In Georgia, state funding is available for these internet projects.
(Definition of state funding noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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