I'm still kinda new and am not sure if there's already an article about this, so I thought I might as well ask this question that has been on my mind for years. With all their missions, hi-tech equipment and facilities(not to mention relentless property damage), where do the X-Men actually get all the necessary funding? Sure, I was aware of the large fortune Charles Xavier had inherited, but surely that can't still be what's keeping them going after all these years!

So I read up a bit on the X-Mansion, X-Men etc on this site as well as on others, but I'm still baffled on how they can afford to buy, repair and maintain stuff like Cerebro, the Blackbird and Danger Room. Sure they may have occassionally have someone like Hank McCoy around to help 'em fix stuff, but even then they may require new materials, components and parts. I'm sure the Blackbird don't run on anything cheap, either. I came across something that said Xavier's school had investors. If that's true, the X-Men having sufficient funds would perhaps be more plausible.

Do some of the mutants staying with the X-Men have part-time jobs to help out with the bills? If a large enough number of them were working, it would certainly help get bread on the table for everyone. I haven't been much of an X-comic reader of late and I haven't seen any of the X-Men simultaneously being part of the workforce.

I do hope that my very first article hasn't bored you to death but I thought, 'Hey, why not give it a shot', and once again, I am truly , SINCERELY sorry if this topic has already been brought up in the past. Lastly...y'know what, 'nuff said.

Angel's family business is also worth billions, and lately they've been able to filter money from Emma Frost's company too ;)

good question. i know professor x has deep pockets. not so sure about the investors part. not recently anyway. i think i once read they sold alien tech to SHIELD. not sure. logan is bound to have a lot of money. he was a hitman and all sorts of covert stuff in the past. i dont think he did those for free. plus he did some jobs for nick fury too. emma i presume has a lot of money (she opened her own school once). storm is a queen. scott's parents had a personal jet so he surely has some wealth. i think the younger x-men pay some kind of tuition. they mostly do the repairs to their HQ themselves so there's a buck saved. they grow vegis in their backyard. come to think of it they're very responsible with their money.

Oh, I nearly forgot... the Braddock family fortune isn't exactly shy of a few Bob or two, either ;)

mags could make 1$ coins out of metals. a lot of coins.

@xerox_kitty: Wait... Emma Frost has a company? o_o

@MisterParker said:

@xerox_kitty: Wait... Emma Frost has a company? o_o

yup. inherited it from her pop

don't forget storm married BP so she has his money

@jubilee042 said:

don't forget storm married BP so she has his money

What a gold digger!

Maybe the telepaths use their powers to obtain massive donations from wealthy people.

@AgeofHurricane said:

@jubilee042: She was wealthy way before she married the Black Panther.

Storm was a penniless 'Goddess' when Xavier recruited her. So any money she's accumulated since then (and before she got married) is from Xavier ;)

Monet also has oodles of dough at her disposal, but she doesn't even cough up for X-Factor let alone the X-Men led by her former teacher whom she hates to much (Emma ;)

@AgeofHurricane said:

@jubilee042: She was wealthy way before she married the Black Panther.

Storm was a penniless 'Goddess' when Xavier recruited her. So any money she's accumulated since then (and before she got married) is from Xavier ;)

Monet also has oodles of dough at her disposal, but she doesn't even cough up for X-Factor let alone the X-Men led by her former teacher whom she hates to much (Emma ;)

@xerox_kitty said:

Angel's family business is also worth billions, and lately they've been able to filter money from Emma Frost's company too ;)

This is what came to mind, the rest I wasn't particularly sure about.

Not to forget Xavier, he's got some wealth too right?

@MisterParker said:

@xerox_kitty: Wait... Emma Frost has a company? o_o

yup. inherited it from her pop

@ReVamp: Xavier has been funding the X-Men since the beginning, and I'm reasonably sure he couldn't have single-handedly payed all the bills by himself to this day.

Who cares?

How does Batman run a multi-million dollar company by day and run around as a masked vigilante at night?

It's all irrelevant because it's fictional.

Wolverine does kids parties, people pay to watch Psylocke working out, Xavier does fortune telling and Gambit steals toasters. Just lil things like that, major coinage for the piggy bank. 

Prodigy before being de-powered was a regular gameshow contestant.

@SC said:

Wolverine does kids parties, people pay to watch Psylocke working out, Xavier does fortune telling and Gambit steals toasters. Just lil things like that, major coinage for the piggy bank.

^Do I even have to speak? You must get annoyed at all the quotes you get from me, LOL.

they all invested very wisely in time shares

I would imagine that there's been a fair amount of investing done, behind the scenes. When the Institute was being run as an actual school, I'm sure they were also receiving grants, donations, and so forth. In addition, I believe that several of the X-Men hold patents on some devices.

if I remember correctly they were also getting money from anonymous investors

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The "anonymous investors" were actually the hellfire club

They are one of the richest people in the world.

The people of hellfire club were only giving money to prof x just to his school can be running so he can train jean grey

The hellfire club wanted jean grey so they can give her the powers of the phoneix