Let me see if I understand:

1. Did you make a proposal asking for what you wanted?
2. Was it rejected?
3. If it was rejected, do you know what the difference was between yours and this other person?
4. If it was rejected, can you retool and reapply?
5. Is the loss to you so large that it should be conflated with a loss to the whole community?

No. 5 is the part that disturbs me, sir. I can understand 1-4 not going well, and then you feeling disrespected by the powers that be. I can understand if you are saying you believe you personally are being treated unfairly. But just because someone applied for in essence a $30K grant for work already done and got it while you didn't does not mean the whole community has necessarily been robbed unless said work OBJECTIVELY had no value to us -- that would be hard to prove, but, I'm open to it if you can do it.

But if there is value, here's what happened. Person X valued their work at $30K; the Hive fund agreed. That is the kind of thing that takes place every day in grant-making circles to actual volunteers who apply for sustaining grants based on past work. Not everyone applies, and not everyone who applies receives ... $30K is a big example, but it does happen with big funds. That does not mean YOUR work has no value. Thank you for everything you did that got us to where we could have this conversation today. Yet at the same time: just because no one has yet put a dollar sign on the value of your work doesn't mean that we can prove the dollar sign on anyone else's work is invalid.