I joined Gridcoin not for profit, it was just an experiment. I have a lot of small crunching machines in SETI@Home boinc project distributed from my own phones to amazon/google clouds. And I don't wanted to change project or join any special groups. My first PoR (1 GRC) arrived after two days after I joined Gridcoin team in SETI@Home project. Second PoR was bigger and I received it after two weeks of crunching. So, It doesn't grab "a years" to wait.
By the way, how much GRC should I have to receive PoR faster?
Learnt 50k GRC guarantee daily returns , though people stake less, it all depends on your wallet.