My thoughts:
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The data absolutely must be accurate. That’s obvious. If it can’t be made accurate for some reason, other alternatives should be sought.
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The mistaken number does not “create a tax liability.” The tax liability is whatever the actually received grant amount is, which is (by your own claim) not the same as the amount shown on the interface. This can be easily remedied by adding text saying something like, “This number is not intended for any purpose public or private” or whatever “legalese” one would use to make it clear (even to dim-witted tax authorities), that this is not a “tax liability.”
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This number, especially being that it’s at the very top of the display, is SUPER useful. Please don’t remove it. It’s the first number I look at when deciding whether or not to donate to a grant. If a grant has received a “decent” amount of money, I want to know that. If I’m trying to decide between two grants and one has $10,000-lifetime funding and another has 100,000-lifetime funding, that weighs heavily on my decision.
An alternative might be a “bar chart” or some other sort of graphical object with no numbers that indicates, “amount received” – tall bars for a lot of lifetime funding, shorter bars or not at all for a small amount of funding. The important information is relative magnitude, not exact numbers. But, please don’t remove this super-valuable clue to the a project’s “needyness.”