> NSF since they have been arguably much more effective than NSF
replyCould you expand on that?
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/annual-reports/
replyAnecdata: a lot of bleeding edge stuff has been funded by SF not NSF.
They also do a lot of shortterm "Collaborations", something not quite done by NSF
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-collaborations...