The language team develops the project for which funding is needed. Typically, they will be responsible to prepare the funding proposal as well, although they may ask for assistance from their field entity.

Once funding has been secured, the language team bears primary responsibility for carrying out the project for which funding has been sought.

Every funding proposal has to be reviewed and approved by the entity administration and usually by the entity Executive Committee. These parties are responsible to assign some kind of priority to the project relative to all other funding proposals being developed in that entity.

When funding has been obtained, the field entity is responsible to provide an accounting of the funds and to see to it that appropriate reports are filed. There is often general administrative oversight to insure that the funds are spent appropriately.

Projects which have been approved by entity administrations go to the Area Director for further prioritization relative to all of the funding needs of the Area. The Area then forwards the funding proposals to the International Administration (Project Funding Coordinator).

When funding has been received, the Area's only responsibility is to insure that the funds are spent appropriately.

All funding projects come to the International Project Funding Coordinator for registration and tracking. On a yearly basis, all projects which have been submitted are complied and sent to the Executive Director for final approval. Projects costing more than $300,000 must be reviewed by the SIL Board before funding can be sought. Once projects have been approved and prioritized, they are submitted to potential sponsors (usually Wycliffe Organizations).

When funding has been committed, the International Administration is primarily responsible to track funds and to coordinate the making of appropriate reports.

Sponsors identify projects for which they are prepared to seek funding. Seeking funding may be done by direct fund-raising, or by identifying known donors who may be willing to underwrite a given project.

Once an actual underwriter has been found, the sponsoring Wycliffe Organization has the additional responsibility of seeing to it that donated funds are transmitted to the field entity where the project is to be carried out.