Hey @annika,
Thank you for the proposal. I have a very fundamental concern with the single pool approach. Won’t that really skew the result towards the most popular grants of all categories? In the past the categories at least allowed lesser known grants in a category to get some matching. With this approach it sounds as if that will no longer be possible.
No individual grant’s matching contribution amount shall exceed 2.5% of the overall matching pool fund (i.e., $25k).
That would probably help, but still not really solve the concern I have above. Also why not discuss here what the max matching for a grant should be? 2.5% sounds okay~ish but perhaps we can discuss/tweak the parameters if someone else in the community has any useful insight.
With 2.5%, in the worst case scenario we would have ~40 top/most popular grants take the most matching funds.