I personally feel strongly about CEEALAR being better value, but that’s just one of the many organisations listed—you can mentally delete it if your mileage varies.
Also, for better or worse, the mansion now belongs to EVF, so it’s now up to EVF to decide whether it’s the most effective path for them to keep it. Does a status quo reversal test suggest that right now, if they had £15million in cash, the best thing to spend it on would be a mansion near Oxford (let’s assume that spending it on anything else would come with a couple of months’ worth of admin work)?
Re your second paragraph: OP remains EVF’s predominant funder, and it seems likely that OP would respond to EVF selling Wytham by reducing its own grant to EVF in the same amount. Thus, the end result of selling Wytham would be that OP has more money to spend elsewhere. OP is probably in a better position than EVF to evaluate the value of Wytham vs. whatever it would fund with the reduction in EVF’s grant next year after the Wytham sale.
That’s an interesting point. I wonder if this would also be the case if EVF (hypothetically) immediately earmarked proceeds from selling Wytham as donations to other organisations.
All of this of course is ignoring how grantmaking works in practice.
I personally feel strongly about CEEALAR being better value, but that’s just one of the many organisations listed—you can mentally delete it if your mileage varies.
Also, for better or worse, the mansion now belongs to EVF, so it’s now up to EVF to decide whether it’s the most effective path for them to keep it. Does a status quo reversal test suggest that right now, if they had £15million in cash, the best thing to spend it on would be a mansion near Oxford (let’s assume that spending it on anything else would come with a couple of months’ worth of admin work)?
Re your second paragraph: OP remains EVF’s predominant funder, and it seems likely that OP would respond to EVF selling Wytham by reducing its own grant to EVF in the same amount. Thus, the end result of selling Wytham would be that OP has more money to spend elsewhere. OP is probably in a better position than EVF to evaluate the value of Wytham vs. whatever it would fund with the reduction in EVF’s grant next year after the Wytham sale.
That’s an interesting point. I wonder if this would also be the case if EVF (hypothetically) immediately earmarked proceeds from selling Wytham as donations to other organisations.
All of this of course is ignoring how grantmaking works in practice.