Oh Deeperone, I would stronly advise you to get to know people before you judge tem.

I think you have suffered from a lack of oxygen. If you really think this is about money, you are barking up the wrong tree.

Together with quit a large group of players, we invest a small fortune of our personal money into uwh.
Nonetheless, this doesn't stop us from getting money from our federation so we can expand our sport. So students and less fortunated people can also enjoy the sport. So we can grow our sport and look what happened: in the last three years we managed to build 7 new clubs and got our national team up and running again!

If your immediate reaction is that we think of getting money for ourselves, than I seriously think you have quit an egocentric view on life.

So yes, we do get money from our federation to do promotion campaigns, purchase demo materials and invest in our national team. Yes that money is mainly coming from our governement and YES only because our sport is recognised by the IOC.
But besides that, we also keep investing ourselves.

How did we do all this? By lobbying like hell with our federation president, governement institutions and showing we are taking steps to grow our sport.

If you don't have that situation, I am deeply sorry, but don't judge us for caring about our sport and finally taking it forward.
And anybody who wants to give me a wake-up call, can send me a PM, I'll be more than happy to give them my number.