The prize money is donated privately by the Plagge family with the support of friends.
A number of paintings, however, have come from disestablished churches or have been donated privately, including most recently the Crucifixion by Delacroix.
The $62 million privately donated to the Metropolitan Opera in New York last year cost the government something like $25 million.
Coors was also known to have privately donated $65,000 to buy a light cargo plane for the Contras effort in Nicaragua during Reagan's presidency.
The city provided $1 million, the state $2 million and the remaining $3 million was privately donated.
(All of Acadia's 41,645 acres were privately donated.)
The money, all privately donated, was raised in time-honored Grand Rapids fashion; its most prominent citizens led the way.
Many of her works were privately donated to the University College Cork.
The amount of money that has been privately donated has been extraordinary.