It seems as though we have an all-or-nothing policy now: either you get all your funding or you get nothing. Has it always been that way? Was there ever a time in the past when Status might say, “We can give you some money, but there's a lot of demand on the funding, and while your project fits the criteria, we can't give you all that you've requested“?
On May 26th, 2010. See this statement in context.