A donor who gives more than the minimum in a cycle still earns only one vote for that cycle. The excess does not buy additional votes. Instead, it goes into a matching pool that matches smaller donations from other donors in future cycles. Money in the matching pool is not available to the organization until it is actually matched. A large donation that arrives without the community to match it does not fund the organization — it sits in the pool, waiting. Only when other donors show up and claim matches does that money become spendable. An unmatched pool is potential, not funding. This is a deliberate structural constraint on the organization itself. The most important thing the org can do, at any given moment, is bring in more people and keep current members engaged. Without participation, the money cannot be spent. The org cannot afford to ignore what its users want, because its ability to operate at any scale depends on users continuing to show up. Large donors still matter — they make broader participation possible — but they do not get to bypass the community. The matching design ties what the organization can do to what the community is willing to join in on. That tie is the point.