As Peach, Nick, Mr. T and others are saying, nobody funds the Tea Party. There are groups that arose out of the Tea Party. The Tea Partty didn't have a name in the Bush administration, but they were starting to pay attention and it was mostly them who voted the irresponsible and non responsive GOP out of power in 2006. And they were paying attention when it got even worse with the Democrats in power. They were fighting mad when TARP was passed late in 2008. Then when Congress passed an unconscionably irresonsible appropriations bill in February followed by the first stimulus package on top of TARP and then Obamacare, that was the impetus to get the Tea Patrty moving.
But the Tea Party is not organized as a recognized or registered organization. It is a symbol of all Americans from all walks of life who are demanding a government that is closer to its Constitutional roots, thatt is fiscally responsible and treats the people's money with respect, and that protects and promotes individual liberties.
Again the fact that the Koch Brothers, who fund many many different groups, foundations, organizations, and causes, has given around $2 million to groups sympathetic to the Tea Party is NOT the same thing as funding the Tea Party.
Now? Contrast this to Geoge Soros, and his manipulation, funding?
Yes. Soros is out to defeat anybody or take down any group who is opposed to big government/one world government and that would include anybody who is conservative, Republican, visionary, or Tea Party spirited. The Koch Brothers fund mostly concepts and causes that are conservative libertarian centered or are just good things to do.