Making Money with InterPlay

The current state of InterPlay is that it has spread all over the place, but not many people are making much money from leading it.
Some who are investing a lot of time and energy to maintain an ongoing InterPlay program depend on someone else bringing home the bacon. Even Cynthia and I depend in part on other sources of income to fill the gaps.
Perhaps InterPlay is a labor of love (does someone have a "play" version of that expression?) Perhaps InterPlay should be free of charge.
Perhaps InterPlay need only be about giving and receiving grace.
It certainly seems like we should be able to get together and play without having to invest much money in it. If you have led InterPlay you may have gotten this sense from your participants—that there is resistance to the cost.
I believe that there are probably some deep issues behind the "deals" with InterPlay and money. And perhaps we will explore those in this discussion.
But one of my beliefs is that if we can figure out a reasonable economic model for the way that InterPlay works in the middle of a market economy—a model in which more people make at least some money from teaching and leading InterPlay—then InterPlay will spread more quickly and more widely.
We may have to change in order to get this to work.
So the first question is: what is your current picture, based on your own experience, of the way that InterPlay is working/not working for you financially? Be specific (focus on the details) if you are able and willing.