Divulging Information about Funding

A graduate student meeting with her potential doctoral program advisor for the first time asks about project funding, wishing to know its source, duration, and plans for soliciting alternative financial support.  How should the faculty member respond?

J1G says:  There's a question about this?  Of course anyone involved in a project has a right to know who's funding it. Participants also have a right to know.

K5F says:  Since there are huge implications for the future success of graduate students and post-docs based on the nature of funding sources, past success in grant receipt, and the duration of current funding sources in a laboratory, I think it is fair game for a student to ask these questions and expect a response. Answers to such questions may impact on the decision of which laboratory the student will join (and rightly so).