History Main / OrganizationWithUnlimitedFunding

* [[VideoGame/MetalGear The Patriots]], who've managed to build what can only be described as a world-domination AI supercomputer which has its hooks in nearly every military on the planet by ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4''. And just in case it's destroyed, there are 4 identical backup AIs ready to take over. They also funded the Les Enfants Terrible project, which covertly perfected human cloning in the 1970s.

* There is a notable aversion in ''Series/TheFall''. DSU Stella Gibson, [[UsefulNotes/ScotlandYard a Metropolitan Police detective]], is brought into [[UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland Belfast]] to assist the PSNI in a 28-day review of a cold case in which the ex-daughter-in-law of an MLA of the Northern Ireland Assembly was murdered, and she eventually links the murder to two other murders. At the end of the first series, the Belfast Strangler has slipped off the radar. By the beginning of the second season, which is only ten days after the first series' finale, the PSNI's funding and resources have been stretched thin and DSU Gibson has to submit a request for a £1.8 million grant to continue the investigation.

** The follow-up books reveal that the financial crisis of 2008 has hit the program's budget hard. No new hulls have been laid down since the attack of the Super-Hive. The ''Sun Tzu'' is still floating in space, likely to be written off as a wreck.

It pretty much goes without saying that any investor who owns more than 1% or so of one of these organizations will be a member of the {{Fiction 500}}. If an organization is owned largely by one individual or a relatively small group, please file the example under ImpossiblyCoolWealth, not here.

Compare {{Fiction 500}}, MegaCorp, JustForFun/AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit, WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys.

* In ''Series/{{NUMB3RS}}'', DARPA is mentioned several times as this, specifically using the words "unlimited funding". They end up throwing it at 5-year projects. One character, who tries to scam them with a fake AI, claims no one would suspect a thing, as 95% of DARPA-funded projects are failures. And then it turns out that the US government also has a detachment of people who are literally TheMenInBlack to go after people who are scamming them for research funds.

* Averted in ''Series/{{UFO}}''. While SHADO has all the fancy toys expected of a Creator/GerryAnderson production (supersonic aircraft, flying submarines, a base on the Moon, a MasterComputer and an ElaborateUndergroundBase hidden under a working film studio), several episodes show Straker arguing with [[ObstructiveBureaucrat General Henderson of the International Astrophysical Committee]] over his budget allocation.

** Black Mesa has a much higher official budget, and then spends it on multiple redundant facilities, "abandoned sectors", independent ''space launch capability'' (at multiple sites, no less), separate backup copies of their secret technology, their own private nuclear arsenal, [[Machinima/FreemansMind a box-smashing room]], and so on. Much like Aperture, Black Mesa uses secret advanced technology ''just to develop'' other advanced technology.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' {{Deconstruction}} this trope, [[DeconstructorFleet like many others]]. NERV (a UN Special Agency)-- is able to replace entire cities within days, not to mention the upkeep and maintenance of ''three'' giant biomechanical weapons, each with a budget equivalent to a small country. NERV has funding in excess of what a UN agency can normally legally have, and required a special resolution to the funding regulations just to be chartered. Their monetary requirements are absolutely enormous, and they are given all the funding they need, but even so, they still run into financing issues because they take up so much of the budget that other programs end up gutted in order to meet their needs. As one member of the [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness SEELE council]] said, "Man cannot live on Eva alone," and fully funding all their operations can cripple other critical programs.

* Many, if not all, of the major factions in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. As the Wiki/TVTropes entry states: "Entire planets with populations of billions are lost due to rounding errors in tax returns."

* The apparently unlimited resources of the Wiki/SCPFoundation have been commented on even by its own writing community. Somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that they control paranormal artifacts that actually ''can'' produce infinite resources, although often with unpleasant side-effects. They do occasionally complain about needless or excessive expenditures, be it [[RedShirt D-Class fodder]] or actual resources. Note that the primary objection to the wasting of D-Class is that there are a finite number of unlikely-to-be-missed life sentence and death row inmates available, not the Foundation's difficulties with obtaining the ones that exist.

* In ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon FEAR]]'', the MegaCorp Armacham Technology Corporation [[SerialEscalation plays it increasingly straight as the series went on]]. In the first game, it's more {{downplayed|Trope}}: ATC has a corporate security force, but they're simply well-equipped security employees, rather than the private army they are shown as in later titles. The army of Replica troops – which comes complete with their own customized battle armor, infiltrator units, super-heavy combat soldiers, Hind attack helicopters, armored personnel carriers, and powered armor units – is a ''product'' that they were getting ready to sell in their capacity as an arms manufacturer. Even the ElaborateUndergroundBase seen near the end of the game was not something that they actually ''built'', rather it was something that they bought from the government, being a UsefulNotes/ColdWar base that got decommissioned after the fall of the USSR. In later games, they're shown to have built several major underground facilities, including one underneath an elementary school, a full-size hospital (as in, they built the ''actual hospital building'' underground, inside a cavern complex), multiple underground storage facilities for the whole Replica army, and an equally huge underground tram system connecting these facilities together. They also operate an army of private mercenaries with their own armor and air support. They're also able to field ''orbital'' assets, including orbit-dropped walking tanks. The third game even shows them having enough military power to openly operate on the streets of a Third-World South American city and enough troops to maintain a nine-month-long containment operation in Fairport, all the while fighting Alma's monstrous creations. The resources they have access to are ''tremendous''.

* In ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon FEAR]]'', the MegaCorp Armacham Technology Corporation [[SerialEscalation plays it increasingly straight as the series went on]]. In the first game, it's more [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]: ATC has a corporate security force, but they're simply well-equipped security employees, rather than the private army they are shown as in later titles. The army of Replica troops – which comes complete with their own customized battle armor, infiltrator units, super-heavy combat soldiers, Hind attack helicopters, armored personnel carriers, and powered armor units – is a ''product'' that they were getting ready to sell in their capacity as an arms manufacturer. Even the ElaborateUndergroundBase seen near the end of the game was not something that they actually ''built'', rather it was something that they bought from the government, being a UsefulNotes/ColdWar base that got decommissioned after the fall of the USSR. In later games, they're shown to have built several major underground facilities, including one underneath an elementary school, a full-size hospital (as in, they built the ''actual hospital building'' underground, inside a cavern complex), multiple underground storage facilities for the whole Replica army, and an equally huge underground tram system connecting these facilities together. They also operate an army of private mercenaries with their own armor and air support. They're also able to field ''orbital'' assets, including orbit-dropped walking tanks. The third game even shows them having enough military power to openly operate on the streets of a Third-World South American city and enough troops to maintain a nine-month-long containment operation in Fairport, all the while fighting Alma's monstrous creations. The resources they have access to are ''tremendous''.

* In ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon FEAR]]'', not only did [[MegaCorp Armacham Technology Corporation]] build several major underground facilities, including one underneath an elementary school, a massive underground vault specifically to test and contain a world-endingly-powerful psychic, a full-size hospital (as in, they built the ''actual hospital building'' underground, inside a cavern complex), multiple underground storage facilities for the immense clone army, they also built an equally huge underground tram system connecting these facilities together. They also operate the massive clone army mentioned above, which comes complete with their own customized battle armor, ninjas, super-heavy combat soldiers, Hind attack helicopters, armored personnel carriers, and powered armor units, and a ''second'' army of private mercenaries with their ''own'' armor and air support. They're also able to field ''orbital'' assets, including orbit-dropped walking tanks. The third game even shows them having enough military power to openly operate on the streets of a Third-World South American city and enough troops to maintain a nine-month-long containment operation in Fairport, all the while fighting Alma's monstrous creations. The resources they have access to are ''tremendous''.
** Interestingly, this trope seemed to be [[SerialEscalation played increasingly straight as the series went on]]. In the first game, it was more [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. ATC had a corporate security force, but there were simply well-equipped security employees, rather than the private army they are shown as in later titles. The army of clones were a ''product'' that they were getting ready to sell in their capacity as an arms manufacturer. Even the ElaborateUndergroundBase seen near the end of the game was not something that they actually ''built'', rather it was something that they ''bought'' from the government, being a UsefulNotes/ColdWar base that got decommissioned after the fall of the USSR.

* The Umbrella Corporation, from the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' series is so absurdly rich and powerful that they own several islands, as well as research bases in Antarctica, on a cruise ship, and basically the entirety of Raccoon City. All in secret, mind you.
** And subverted, what kills them is their stocks dropping after Raccoon City was nuked.

In RealLife, the world's largest corporations and government agencies often have a total annual cash flow that exceeds the Gross National Product of smaller nations, own fleets of multimillion dollar vehicles or enough office buildings to start their own city. But modern RealLife organizations like Wal-mart or the U.S. Defense Department would be on the ''bottom'' end of this scale at best.

Merely being an unusually successful MegaCorp is not enough to qualify for this list, nor is an ElaborateUndergroundBase (or more than one), as these assets may have been around for a while, acquired at a discount, or required to accomplish the organizations whole purpose for existance.

** An example might be, in a setting TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, while every other spacefaring organization is still working on commercial manned flight to the ISS or missions to the Moon or Mars, this organization is already secretly operating multiple interstellar vessels that could carry the space shuttle in their secondary cargo holds.

** As the characters point out, it's actually a scam. They give each player 100 million yen, and require that each player pay back that amount at the end. Assuming no player goes bankrupt (which is a ridiculous assumption, but the company supposedly has hand-wavy powers to extract the money somehow), they'll never lose any money -- the loser just pays the winner 100 million, and the company neither gains nor loses anything. But then the company ''also'' charges 50% of your net winnings if you drop out, which is pure profit for them.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' {{Deconstruction}} this trope, [[DeconstructorFleet like many others]]. NERV (a UN Special Agency)-- is able to replace entire cities within days, not to mention the upkeep and maintenance of ''three'' giant biomechanical weapons, each with a budget equivalent to a small country. NERV has funding in excess of what a UN agency can normally legally have, and required a special resolution to the funding regulations just to be chartered. Their monetary requirements are absolutely enormous, and they are given all the funding they need, but even so they still run into financing issues because they take up so much of the budget that other programs end up gutted in order to meet their needs. As one member of the [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness SEELE council]] said, "Man cannot live on Eva alone," and fully funding all their operations can cripple other critical programs.

* Momoka Nishizawa from ''Manga/SgtFrog''. Even granted that her family has more than half the money on Earth she spends insane amounts of money, mostly on trying to get closer to her love interest, Fuyuki. This goes to the point that there's actually an episode dedicated to her trying to formulate an extremely low budget plan as a change of strategy (really, she'd get a lot further just buying a marriage certificate).

* In ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'', Project Cadmus director Dr. Leo Quintum explicitly states he has unlimited resources. Not surprising since as a good aligned MadScientist his inventions must make millions (if not billions) in this non-ReedRichardsIsUseless world.

* ''Series/StargateSG1'': [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], since it is funded through the [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks U.S. Department of Defense budget]]. It also operates Stargate Command, rents Russia's stargate whenever theirs goes missing, and built at least 5 starships that allegedly each cost more than the entire GNP of the state of New York, and presumably operate other secret projects as well. But then, keeping two galaxies safe ain't cheap. Later an oversight agency becomes a recurring pain in the protagonists backside as other nations are brought onboard and corporations become involved in adapting found technology to Earth use.

* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': Funding, provided by U.S. taxpayers through the defense budget, is never really an issue, and often in court-martials held in Virginia, foreign nationals as witnesses are flown in from across the world. Subverted though in "Father's Day" when Harm, Mac and Bud had to conduct an investigation on a tight budget; due to Harm's tortious interference with the secret business of the Bradenhurst Corporation in a previous episode.

* Averted by the Baltimore Police Department in ''Series/TheWire''. In the early seasons money and budgetary limitations are frequently mentioned as constraints on investigations (senior officers regularly warn that they only have so many days they can afford a wiretap; two cops fear the financial consequences of losing an expensive piece of surveillance equipment) but never with any actual effect. In the fourth season, the city discovers its school system is running a multimillion-dollar deficit and immediately imposes austerity measures on the police, severely limiting overtime and deferring car repair to the point that one officer has to take a city bus to a crime scene. It gets so bad that two detectives resort to [[spoiler:fabricating a serial killer]] to reopen the financial spigots for the case they're trying to make against a major local drug dealer.

* According to ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' lore, by the year 2070 we can expect mega-corporations that literally have more money and military power than most actual countries. The headquarters of said mega-corps tend to span tens of city blocks and legitimately claim that the ground said buildings are upon as soverign territory, and immune to the parent country's governing laws.

* Averted for the Task Force: Valkyrie, TheMenInBlack [[AncientConspiracy Conspiracy]] of ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'', in the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness''. They are a national, FBI sized agency, with bleeding edge technology, flat-out said to have the impressively low annual budget of US$875,000. [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys How can they fund all those marvelous gadgets?]] [[DarkSecret Being secretly funded by ancient vampires, that's how.]]

** Interestingly, this trope seemed to be [[SerialEscalation played increasingly straight as the series went on]]. In the first game, it was more [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. ATC had a corporate security force, but there were simply well equipped security employees, rather than the private army they are shown as in later titles. The army of clones were a ''product'' that they were getting ready to sell in their capacity as an arms manufacturer. Even the ElaborateUndergroundBase seen near the end of the game was not something that they actually ''built'', rather it was something that they ''bought'' from the government, being a UsefulNotes/ColdWar base that got decommissioned after the fall of the USSR.

* [[EvilArmy BlackWatch]] seems to have this in both ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' games. In the first game it even keeps track of how much money it has cost them from the destruction you have caused. No matter the Billions you cost them, they never seem to ever run low on resources. FridgeHorror sets in when you realize that ''you'' might be responsible for that - considering that they're affiliated with the US Government ([[TheConspiracy although who reports to who is unclear at times]]), the massive amounts of damage the player characters cause [[NiceJobBreakingItHero may be used as justification for a larger budget.]]

* The WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum are able to finance a multiverse spanning organization and have a HQ able to supply any of the needs of their agents as needed. The only real hints we get as to how they're able to run this is the fact that agents are paid at barely what qualifies as a minimum wage and they supply their own electricity via [[HamsterWheelPower authors literally spinning in their graves]].

** Interestingly, this trope seemed to be [[SerialEscalation played increasingly straight as the series went on]]. In the first game, it was more [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. ATC had a corporate security force, but there were simply well equipped security employees, rather than the private army they are shown as in later titles. The army of clones were a ''product'' that they were getting ready to sell in their capacity as an arms manufacturer. Even the ElaborateUndergroundBase seen near the end of the game was not something that they actually ''built'', rather it was something that they ''bought'' from the government, being a UsefulNotes/ColdWar base that got decommissioned after [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp the fall of the USSR]].