Depending on how you set up administration, independent governance can become difficult to sustain. The more money you take from donors, especially "directed" donations with strings attached, the harder it is.
For example, you may fear offending a donor who wants to use the "Rust" trademark for their megabudget conference where they sell themselves as the preeminent Rust experts.
This comes into play if you consider funding development directly through a foundation, which requires large donations.
Yeah, that's why I'd prefer for the Rust Foundation to be as lean as possible, explicitly excluding raising donations for the whole project and paying developers from its scope. Funding development could then be done by other entities, not related to the foundation.
For example, you may fear offending a donor who wants to use the "Rust" trademark for their megabudget conference where they sell themselves as the preeminent Rust experts.
This comes into play if you consider funding development directly through a foundation, which requires large donations.