Grundarna till Hogwarts hade pengar från olika människor men hade inte finansiering från någon form av regering.
Helga Hufflepuffs Wizard-kort enligt gamla JKR-webbplatsen är som följer
"[s]he brought people from different walks of life together to help build Hogwarts and was loved for her charming ways."
Enligt upprättandet av magiministeriet kallas det 1707 i pottermore
The Ministry of Magic was formally established in 1707 with the appointment of the very first man to hold the title 'Minister for Magic', Ulick Gamp.
Prior to 1707, the Wizards' Council was the longest serving (though not the only) body to govern the magical community in Britain. After the imposition of the International Statute of Secrecy in 1692, however, the wizarding community needed a more highly structured, organized and more complex governing structure than they had hitherto used, to support, regulate and communicate with a community in hiding. Only witches and wizards who enjoyed the title of 'Minister for Magic' are included in this entry.
Inrättandet av The Wizards Council är oklart men det nämns inte innan 1269 var som helst, så vi kan anta att det ännu inte bildats under upprättandet av Hogwarts, som var innan / före 933
The Wizards' Council was the predecessor to the Ministry of Magic (FBx). Barberus Bragge was the Chief of the Council in 1269.
Inrättandet av Hogwarts berodde på den växande misstroget hos muggles. Så grundarna skulle inte fråga muggle regeringen för mjuk finansiering.
Även historien i Storbritannien under upprättandet av Hogwarts är mycket störd eftersom av vikinginflytningar, kan vi anta att under detta krig mellan Alfred of Wessex och Vikings, kände sig guvernörerna i England-regionen hotade och började flytta till sekretess.
Late in the 8th cent., and with increasing severity until the middle of the 9th cent., raiding Vikings (known in English history as Danes) harassed coastal England and finally, in 865, launched a full-scale invasion. They were first effectively checked by King Alfred of Wessex and were with great difficulty confined to the Danelaw, where their leaders divided land among the soldiers for settlement. Alfred's successors conquered the Danelaw to form a united England, but new Danish invasions late in the 10th cent. overcame ineffective resistance . The Dane Canute ruled all England by 1016. At the expiration of the Scandinavian line in 1042, the Wessex dynasty (see Edward the Confessor) regained the throne. The conquest of England in 1066 by William, duke of Normandy (William I of England), ended the Anglo-Saxon period.