Capital for the two explicitly described space assets and their on-board hardware (all items are described in the article and costed here with itemized subcomponents): SCP-001-SEEK construction & launch (~$2,500,000,000) — breakdown (approx.): biomechanical hull and fabrication $1,200,000,000; Organic Type-40 Learning Computer $150,000,000; universal translator reverse-engineering $20,000,000; transcription unit & Site-01 link (conceptual linkage hardware/integration) $50,000,000; 300 biological drones (biotech fabrication & integration) $15,000,000 (~$50k-equivalent per unit for complex bio-drones); 3,000 experimental cryogenic units $600,000,000 (~$200k/unit for research-grade, anomalous-capable units); launch integration & testing $465,000,000. SCP-001-TOME construction & orbital deployment (~$300,000,000) — breakdown (approx.): 50 m spherical hardware $50,000,000; cloaking/concealment hardware $100,000,000; ambient-hypothetical-energy engine R&D and integration $100,000,000; on-board archive/filter AI and compute $50,000,000. These costs are anchored to items the article explicitly says were built/equipped (SEEK and TOME and their listed subsystems).

Initial Project Oromasdes laboratory and fabrication outfitting required to create SCP-001-KEY instances and to support anomalous conceptual engineering experiments described in the article: shielded anomalous R&D space, safety interlocks, vacuum/cryogenic rigs, specialty tooling and initial fabrication program seed funding. This also covers experimental safety modifications after incidents described (explosion, breaches) and initial forensic capability to analyze the black substance (article documents multiple testing/analysis attempts and dangerous prototype behaviour).

Site-01 secure warehouse and temporary containment modifications for Project Oromasdes materials and SCP-001-KEY instances; includes documented transfer of extant instances to Site-19 and construction of temporary containment chambers (article: 'Materials ... stored in a secure warehouse at Site-01' and 'moved to Site-19'). Number reflects modest secure-warehouse construction and short-term containment fit-out rather than wholesale site expansion (article does not describe large-scale new bases).

Salaries and loaded compensation for the operational staff required by the programs explicitly described in the article: research scientists, engineers, analysts handling telemetry from SCP-001-SEEK and SCP-001-TOME, containment staff for SCP-001-KEY instances, and site security. Headcount and loaded-rate assumptions are documented in 'personnel' below; the article indicates ongoing monitoring and Site-01 teams (e.g., Project oversight, Dr. Moto, Administrator).

Telemetry ingestion, data analysis, HPC/cloud operations to process incoming transmissions from SCP-001-SEEK/TOME, ongoing conceptual-engineering research, and forensic analysis of obliteration events. Article explicitly describes continuous logging of SEEK/TOME data and study of obliterations for countermeasure research.

Maintenance, power and environmental control for the secure warehouse, containment cells (Site-01/Site-19), and remote telemetry ground stations that receive transmissions from SCP-001-SEEK/TOME. The article explicitly references storage, containment and remote reception of transmissions; costs reflect routine upkeep rather than large-scale site expansion.

Consumables for biological drones, cryogenic unit maintenance, replacement parts, and laboratory consumables used in continued fabrication and safe testing of SCP-001-KEY instances (article documents repeated prototype production and destructive test cycles).

Periodic transport, secure shipping of artifacts/samples between sites (e.g., retrieval of cryogenic sample from SEEK), and occasional mission support for the extra-planetary module. The article documents recovery and transfer of a cryogenic survivor unit from SCP-001-SEEK to onboard storage and its transmission to Site-01.

Amnestic administration and minimal legal/cover operations needed per the article (the text requires that knowledge of certain concepts be kept on secure databases and amnestic therapy used to prevent knowledge leaving Site-01). This line captures the Foundation operational spend on amnestics and basic secrecy/legal protocols described; the article does not describe large-scale public-relations operations, so the recurring amount is modest.