The Norwegian government entirely funded the vault's approximately 45 million kr (US$8.8 million in 2008) construction.
Storing seeds in the vault is free to end users; Norway and the Crop Trust pay for operational costs.
Primary funding for the Trust comes from organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and from various governments worldwide.
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Bill Gates and other investors have secured a 'doomsday seed vault' to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago.
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