It's held on the Rutgers campus. One would think that Rutgers could spring for it.
Taxes are simply monies stolen from the people by force.
However, as with all gambling, the odds are always against you. The organizers aren't gambling in the same way. In fact, I have. These are usually masterpieces of practical organizing that make the more bureaucratic festivals seem like the hopelessly bourgeois things they are. I was once invited to participate in an exhibit of documents relevant to stencil graffitiing.