blurring of the lines between a not for profit organization and a charity <-- agreed.

Also, $25k for an archive IS over the top, there is no other way to put it. fanfiction is a recreational activity, and this whole things seems like the people who applied did so without thinking things through enough, and are now trying to back up their decision instead of reconsidering their application. but it seems vanishingly unlikely that they would win the money anyway, if only for the inevitable media attention brought by the whole, ".... but what about the starving babies," argument.