Thus, in order for as many people as possible to get funding, the incentive is for many people to form their own small groups. Competition arises for funding and for fringe benefits, like trips abroad. The presence of scarce and valued resources also fosters jealousy. Women's groups that succeed in obtaining foreign grants are often accused of trying to monopolize or hoard their Western contacts. Mutual suspicion hampers cooperation between women's groups.
Foreign resources can also play an influential role in setting movement priorities and tactics.
Foundations' priorities also condition the choices that women's groups make, when considering what projects might be fundable, and thus, which projects to submit for grants. Funding has also been denied on occasion to openly homosexual groups. A social movement that is the beneficiary of substantial foreign funding may become accountable not to its own society, social group, or constituency, but rather, to one abroad. This has important ramifications for movement outreach strategies. Some activists in Moscow do outreach not to their own population but to their Western funders, and are thus perceived as being coopted or as not being indigenous.