put up money

NFL owners "reward" communities that put up money for new facilities and the owners.

The pension or endowment fund becomes a limited partner, which means it simply put up money.

If I could have shown it perhaps I could have induced some rich man to put up money enough to build one.

It's for sale to any bidder who'd be fool enough to put up money.

If I'd put up money on what everybody said I'd be puttin' up at the poorhouse, myself.

You know, the clubs going to play all this summer; some of the storekeepers have put up money to back it.

Once, Joe, being gaoled for killing a Mexican, Ryan had put up money for a lawyer to get him released.