This strikes me as making a false dichotomy between ‘trust the grant making because lots of information is made public about its decisions’ and ‘trust the grant making because you personally know the re-granter (or know someone who knows someone etc)’. I would expect this is instead supposed to work in the way a lot of for profit funds presumably work: you trust your money to a particular fund manager because they have a strong history of their funds making money. You don’t need to know Elie personally (or know about how he works / makes decisions) to know his track record of setting up GW and thereby finding excellent giving opportunities.
This strikes me as making a false dichotomy between ‘trust the grant making because lots of information is made public about its decisions’ and ‘trust the grant making because you personally know the re-granter (or know someone who knows someone etc)’. I would expect this is instead supposed to work in the way a lot of for profit funds presumably work: you trust your money to a particular fund manager because they have a strong history of their funds making money. You don’t need to know Elie personally (or know about how he works / makes decisions) to know his track record of setting up GW and thereby finding excellent giving opportunities.