Funt resided in Croton-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York. His estate, White Gates, was sold to opera singer Jessye Norman in the early 1990s. Funt in the early 1970s purchased a 1,226 acre ranch located south of Carmel near Big Sur, California, "where he raised Hereford cattle and quarter horses" Funt later purchased the nearby 11-acre Bixby Ranch where he resided. Both ranches were eventually bought by The Trust for Public Land which expected to turn the land over to the US Forest Service.