Funding? Yes, they do contribute funds to it. So do the people I know contribute to it with no outside funding.

I don't expect you to believe that I know people who you don't, who might have a better handle on the comings and goings of their own group than you do. But if you want to persuade me that the fact that the Koch brothers have contributed to the Tea Party means that the whole thing is their puppet to control, that's where we depart. What their contributions actually mean on the ground. Your claims as to what that means are grandiose, not unlike the grandiose connections Beck makes about what Van Jones, Soros, and the Tides foundation means when he pontificates.