The phrase "a main funder of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a primary source of financial support for a project, organization, or initiative.
Example: "The university received a grant from a main funder of educational research, which will help advance their studies."
Alternatives: "a primary sponsor of" or "a key financial backer of".
The owner of L'Oréal was also a main funder of the fascist party in France, and antisemitic.
The 2004 campaign against John Kerry centered on the outlandish challenge to the Democratic candidate's war record sponsored by the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a main funder of which, Harold Simmons, would later become a major supporter of American Crossroads.
In the courtyard of the small hotel she created in the historic center, Vanessa Branson, an English entrepreneur and the founder, driving force and main funder of the Marrakesh Arts Biennale, was taking a break.
We most likely will need the creation of new institutions — an educational equivalent of the National Institutes of Health, the main funder of biomedical research in America — if we are to make serious headway.
by Jonathan Sharples at the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), the main funder of randomized evaluations of educational programs in England (and a former colleague at the University of York).
Carlos Slim was said to be the main funder of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the populist leader of the Mexican left.
The main funder of the campaign for Prop 8 was the Mormon Church of Latterday Saints, based in Utah, which donated around $10m to the campaign.
Indeed, NASAs science budget is, he says, almost as big as that of the National Science Foundation, Americas main funder of non-medical research.
FACT Proposition 13, by limiting local property taxes so dramatically, forced the state to step in as the main funder of many services.
At the time the oil company was the main funder of dozens of front groups and researchers rubbishing any link between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change – or denying climate change was occurring at all.
To listen to Saudi officials, or read the Arab press, you would never know that most of the hijackers were young Saudis, or that the main financing for Osama bin Laden -- a Saudi -- has been coming from other wealthy Saudis, or that Saudi Arabia's government was the main funder of the Taliban.
