In last week's review, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced that an extra 230m would go to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to encourage the uptake of school sport.
But the Central Council of Physical Recreation, which represents all of England's major sports governing bodies, said the culture department has already been asked to cut overall costs by at least that much.
A council spokeswoman said: "It is incredibly hard to work out what money is going where."
She added that sport would have to compete for government funding with culture and arts organisations.
Sport England, which delivers the Government's sporting objectives at community level, said it did not yet know how much funding it would receive.
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