sponsor

• one who donates money; person or organization that promotes or supports (an event, program, candidate, etc.); godparent
back, support, finance, subsidize, promote
if an organization sponsors an event or someone's training, it pays some or all of the expenses connected with it, often in return for publicity.
if you sponsor a proposal, you officially put it forward and support it.
when an organization such as the united nations sponsors negotiations between countries, it suggests holding the negotiations and organizes them.
if one country accuses another of sponsoring terrorism, they mean that the other country does not do anything to prevent it, and may even encourage it.
if you sponsor someone who is doing something to raise money for charity, for example trying to walk a certain distance, you agree to give them a sum of money for the charity if they succeed in doing it.
a sponsor is a person or organization that sponsors something or someone.
see also sponsored.