Does a person's status as funding or not-funding affect their ability to participate in determining the endowment's actions?
Of course, 51% attacks become possible with anything decentralized, so there are provisions to split the endowment itself or pull out your share of the funds whenever you desire (another benefit vs existing charities and endowments).
Check out Stephan Tual on Medium for more info on how his DAO supporting the Ethereum ecosystem awards votes to token-holders and incorporates 51% attack protections (https://medium.com/@stephantual).
I'd be interested in ways to non-linearly scale votes with donations (such as quadratic voting: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2003531) but that would require some sort of decentralized identity to prevent dupe accounts.