[Graybeard58]

I may be wrong but it was my understanding that all those millions received by survivors of the 9/11 victims were private donations to charitable organizations distributed to them.

Billions were raised from donations from Americans.

How much of the money received was from government and how much from private funds?

[pageonetoo]

You understood wrong... Nearly three years after establishing a fund to compensate the families of Sept. 11 victims, the federal government said Monday that it had completed the task and that it would end up paying more than 5,000 families almost $7 billion... http://www.911injured.org/Media/News/contra061604.htm