If I understand it correctly, the "Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland" has received roughly $3 mio in government funding annually to promote "Cyber sovereignty". You are correct that the individual grant to microG was probably capped at €47k, but since they also sent out grant money to
it looks like a coordinated campaign to me. The list includes a privacy-conscious OS, some VPNs, some Tor services, and a Cloud-free translation system for LibreOffice. microG very much fits into that list of tools to avoid Google's spying eye.
https://www.qubes-os.org/
https://openwrt.org/
https://bitmask.net/
https://github.com/juga0/dhcpcanon
https://taler.net/en/index.html
https://identity-stick.github.io/
https://github.com/lernapparat/lotranslate
https://sbws.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
https://leap.se/
https://robur.io/Our%20Work/Projects#OpenVPN
it looks like a coordinated campaign to me. The list includes a privacy-conscious OS, some VPNs, some Tor services, and a Cloud-free translation system for LibreOffice. microG very much fits into that list of tools to avoid Google's spying eye.