Because its resources, both financial and human, are limited. My understanding from previous threads about the Society is that it is focusing on reinfocing its core aims right now. Making applications takes time and effort. I think that it would be best served in applying for money - for the moment - that will help it to achieve its core aims. Once those aims are clear and the organisation is moving forward to attain them, perhaps it could look to new directions.

I'm talking as if I speak for EFDSS. Of course I don't. I'm just giving my own opinion. And I'm happy, as always, to be corrected by them wot knows.