Forum:KB:Jedi Funding?

i was just thinking for a little bit and i realized i couldn't find any data on how the jedi are funded, they obviously owned quite a bit of land at different times throughout the Star Wars timeline. You also have to factor in things like spending money when jedi where sent on missions (Qui-Gon had some 20gs in republic money in episode 1, where did it come from?), lightsaber materiel, clothing, commlinks, just think of how much it must cost to send out recruiting missions, then infant care, food for those stay at the academy, i can only imagine what the power bill for the temple on Coruscant would be, that is if such bills exsist in the Universe. At first i thought government funding, but i thought the Jedi were always seperate from the government. Any Ideas?