[saikiranra]

This would hardly level the playing field.

Nearly all the big budget teams have a well established engineering program going. If FIRST decides to cap the funds that they could raise, those teams would just divert their funds to their "engineering programs" or to other created entities. When they need more money for travel or such expense, the entity would just "donate" what they need, easily bypassing any such rule. All this would do is make the teams who could not create such entity reduce their standards.

Also, not all the money in many team's robotics programs goes to FIRST. My team does a lot of cool off-season projects and needs that money to continue. Other teams do this too, notably Shockwave by 254.