Our school provides no financial support. They do provide us with a dedicated room for the club, however. And when they closed the auto shop, we got all the tools we could grab including some aged machine tools. At one time faculty advisors to clubs received a stipend for their time but that disappeared in the rounds of budget cuts that California is going through. The school district now pays for the cost of doing the vetting of adult mentors. Theoretically, the club is supposed to pay for the substitute teacher for the faculty advisor when he's required to be at the competitions with the club. However, I'm not sure we've ever been billed and we don't ask.
Shhhhh!
