@thadguidry thanks for your questions. Yes, the Wikimedia grant will be run through CS&S (which will manage receiving funds and then redistributing them to contractors or employees). The grant Principal Investigator (PI) will hire and supervise the contractors. As we currently do for other grants, that team must collaborate with other OpenRefine contributors, and only the PI and its team would be responsible for reporting back to the Wikimedia Foundation, not all contributors.
We would need to coordinate with Wikimedia Sweden and @Andre_Costa regarding work on the Commons extension. I will ask if this can fall into the grant scope.
Through this grant, I would like to have part of the fund dedicated to the general maintenance of OpenRefine to help maintain a healthy project and community. That can include work on error reporting and schema alignment as well as more general maintenance tasks as described in this message Grant opportunity: Open Technology Fund - #5 by Martin