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Originally Posted by Ohio Enthusiast

I couldn't easily find a breakdown of capital investment, commercial revenue and government funding, but a cursory search implies the government funding is a small percentage of Space-X budget, certainly not enough to cover the R&D that brought them to where they are.

Falcon 9 costs were paid by government (Wikipedia for ease of reference):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_v1.0

Funding Edit
While SpaceX spent its own money to develop its first launch vehicle, the Falcon 1, the development of the Falcon 9 was accelerated by the purchase of several demonstration flights by NASA. This started with seed money from the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program in 2006.[12] SpaceX was selected from more than twenty companies that submitted COTS proposals.[13] Without the NASA money, development would have taken longer, Musk said.[2]

The development costs for Falcon 9 v1.0 were approximately US$300 million, and NASA verified those costs. If some of the Falcon 1 development costs were included, since F1 development did contribute to Falcon 9 to some extent, then the total might be considered as high as US$390 million.[14][2]

NASA also evaluated Falcon 9 development costs using the NASA‐Air Force Cost Model (NAFCOM)—a traditional cost-plus contract approach for US civilian and military space procurement—at US$$3.6 billion based on a NASA environment/culture, or US$$1.6 billion using a more commercial approach.[15][14]

I believe Dragon was also paid by NASA.