People tend to forget the Bechdel Test was created tongue-in-cheek in a comic strip mostly intending to just make a point in an amusing way: https://ladygeekgirl.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/bechdel-test-original-comic.jpg I doubt it was intended to hold up Alien (which it notes as passing) as some type of feminist paragon. I also bet the number of porn films that pass it is fairly long.
But aside from the already made obvious points about how no one is going to take this seriously ever, the grant mentioned in the OP is basically one employee's salary. So not much of anything really.
The point of the Bechdel Test (as a serious thing) is not that movies passing it are automatically feminist, it's meant as an exercise to highlight the distressingly high number of movies that don't include something as simple as
two women talking about something besides men when there's no real reason the story shouldn't feature it. Passing the Bechdel Test should be considered a bare minimum for works in settings with female characters, not a benchmark that inherently means anything positive about the work itself.
