I don't think it is realistic to expect every super cool idea to get funding and it wouldn't be with a foundation either. There needs to be sufficient scale and a compelling proposal, as well as clarity on its value add, otherwise it's going to remain too far down in the noise. As far as I can tell things which should clearly get funded like core development do get funded. Most of the rest it is debatable whether they actually would move the needle on Hive success and that's not good enough.