There are two different ways in which funding is given. In the United States of America, funding is given at the beginning, once a project is determined, is approved. Then a legal agreement is signed. Then the funding gets transferred. Of course it's tracked, etc.
In Canada we do it the other way. We approve a project and then the money needs to be raised. Then it gets spent, and then the federal government would pay out according to the receipts they receive. So it's a different system.
Is that a system that you support?