The faucet received funds to be distributed to users, not to fund the website itself.

https://github.com/gridcoin/Gridcoin-Research/issues/184 This issue details a large git commit backlog of similar crypto code bases, a large amount of development bounties likely need assigned to its tasks.

The open source mining pool should have a bounty, sure, but thus far no planning has gone into the project. Katiee isn't likely to open source her pool neither.

Ideally we would wait until GRC was worth more before setting massive bounties, but we've got to start somewhere, eh?