This is an unreasonable demand of any funding model. Lacking literal infinite money, funders must prioritize based on attributes they can observe. Since the fut

This is an unreasonable demand of any funding model. Lacking literal infinite money, funders must prioritize based on attributes they can observe. Since the future is not perfectly predictable, they will necessarily have a non-zero false-negative rate. There will always be people who could be said to deserve funding who slip through the cracks. Meanwhile, these new institutes don't have to solve every possible problem with funding research to be worthwhile. They should be judged on whether they're an improvement to the state of the art, not on whether they solve this one problem the author cares about.