About the question...
As Jon said in a similar topic, one million (or equivalent collected) does not make much difference. (I do not remember the topic)
For example, $600.000 would be 12 x $50.000 = 12 months of 1 master professional and expenses.
I think also that money it does not solve. I would like that Stencyl uses the Cocos2d framework. Why should amount much more in quality, community and value.
But I do not know how is the issue of license for it. Perhaps a partnership with Chukong Technologies Inc. and Cocos Creator.
I think Stencyl can not compete with other major companies in code issues, performance and portability for everything new that comes up. Because this requires time, information, experience, money, structure, community and etc.
Stencyl can stand out in what he does of best, which is the editor software and organization of code and information.
Stencyl can create something much better that Cocos Creator. But if Stencyl no do something similar, Creator Cocos be develops more and absorbs more public - although not be as good editor. At the same time, can arise the new and better version of Construct which is its main competitor (Not to mention Unity). Leaving to Stencyl only the position of engine for beginners - that is the image that one has to Stencyl outside the community - but that can be really what Stencyl want be.
It's not a criticism negative. Because all that has already been done with Stencyl it involves hard work, dedication and I recognize that. And of course all this is not so simple, because it involves much more stuff. I refer to Stencyl relationship with external and future reality, not internal.
Despite this sounding half dreamer, and completely disregard all that is being done, I think that there is some reality in that.
Stencyl took a difficult and risky decision when moved for Haxe and Openfl. It worked. Otherwise, probably would have disappeared. I think now approaching something similar.
Because of this I thought in Cocos2d. Another way still cloudy would be WebAssembly.
Perhaps this is something that brings more problems than solutions, but that's what I thought.