[Knufire]

5188 has a fundraising target of about $40,000 this year.

Roughly:

$10,000 for St. Louis registration, travel, lodging
$10,000 for a travel regional registration, travel, lodging
$5000 in district registration feeds
$4000 in DCMP registration fees
$1000 in district/DCMP lodging. We do many creative things to keep this cost down, such as renting out cabins at empty girl scout camps, using family members of mentors to house kids, etc.
$10,000 in yearly expenses. This includes robot parts, non-engineering consumable materials, any additional captial goods we need, etc. We generally try to have a small offseason drivetrain and two identical robots during build season.

All of this is meant to keep the team cost neutral to the students. We don't have a registration fee to join the team, but do set strict requirements that students must meet in order to travel on the team's money.