What's to say Farsight haven't already donated around $40k to make the kickstarter only $59k?
That's true I never really thought of it that way, there's probably more to the licensing than we realize.
Well since we're throwing out hypotheticals and out there logic: Microsoft recently rescinded it's 45K fee for patch approval. Meaning they just saved Farsight basically the rest of the kickstarter, Just now, and for the end of the product life. Overall their new policy saves Farsight anywhere from 100 thousand bucks to upwards of half a million (depending on how many updates and how much longer than plan on supporting the game).
Just saying, that savings could be considered for this and future kickstarters... if they feel like being nice, they aren't obligated in any way to share that savings with us really.