If this was for any substantial amount of money I think it would be pretty bad, though it depends on the relative size of the OP grants and SFF grants.
I think most of the time you should just let promised funding be promised funding, but there is a real and difficult coordination problem here. The general rule I follow when I have been a recommender on the SFF or Lightspeed Grants has been that when I am coordinating with another funder, and we both give X dollars a year but want to fund the organization to different levels (let’s call them level A for me and level B for them), that then I will fund the organization for A/2 and they will fund the organization for B/2, for a total funding of halfway between A and B.
So in such a situation, if I heard that another funder had taken an organization I had already funded for the full amount of A, to the full of level B, then I think it’s not unreasonably for me to reduce my excess funding by half and make sure the organization doesn’t have more than (A/2 + B/2) funding.
However, fully funging against incoming funds seems quite bad and creates really annoying fundraising dynamics.
If this was for any substantial amount of money I think it would be pretty bad, though it depends on the relative size of the OP grants and SFF grants.
I think most of the time you should just let promised funding be promised funding, but there is a real and difficult coordination problem here. The general rule I follow when I have been a recommender on the SFF or Lightspeed Grants has been that when I am coordinating with another funder, and we both give X dollars a year but want to fund the organization to different levels (let’s call them level A for me and level B for them), that then I will fund the organization for A/2 and they will fund the organization for B/2, for a total funding of halfway between A and B.
So in such a situation, if I heard that another funder had taken an organization I had already funded for the full amount of A, to the full of level B, then I think it’s not unreasonably for me to reduce my excess funding by half and make sure the organization doesn’t have more than (A/2 + B/2) funding.
However, fully funging against incoming funds seems quite bad and creates really annoying fundraising dynamics.