I must agree with @barton26 here; Asking to write a paper about making your own software work in a way you have already tried to test out but haven't because technical issues, or lack of experience. You say that your choice of going P2P isn't working any longer and you wish to go server/client in any way and that the code needs rewriting.

As you now see the potential of maybe doing so anyway and get the power of the user on Gridcoin you wish to explorer this again, which is great, but you wish the networks foundation to pay for the work. Not likely..

I propose...

that you write your paper about how GPU can work in a way that it can be utilized by the Gridcoin networks users in the ways you've explored in this text, ie. pool/boinc-server etc. When this paper is done I think it's much more likely that you could ask for an inclusion.

Foundation funds...

would be hard to get for just writing a theses paper. Giving you $900 for writing the paper about how your project could work with BOINC isn't making sure that it would, or that it would even be possible to work with Gridcoin.