This post was originally published on February 25, 2025 by Grants Works for its Federal Grant Insights newsletter on LinkedIn.

As the country learns more about the DOGE team's access to government systems, we may find ourselves faced with three questions:

1. Who is in control of the US federal gove
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This post was originally published on January 23, 2025 by Grants Works for its Federal Grant Insights newsletter on LinkedIn.

In the Unleashing American Energy executive order (EO), the current president orders all agencies to “immediately pause the disbursement of funds appropriated through the In...

As a new federal grantee, there are certain pitfalls you must avoid. One of the pitfalls is focusing solely on the programmatic output of the funded project without ensuring your organization's financial management systems are reinforced. Below are five of several mistakes some new federal grantees ...

**Originally published on October 28, 2023**

On October 5, 2023, the Office of Management and Budget released proposed changes to revise several sections of OMB Guidance for Grants and Agreements to integrate statutory requirements and administration priorities, reduce agency and recipient burden, ...

This post was originally published on April 12, 2025 by Grants Works for its Federal Grant Insights newsletter on LinkedIn.

Why Do Universities Receive Federal Grants?

Universities, particularly top research universities such as Columbia, Johns Hopkins University, University of Pittsburgh, UCLA, a...

This post was originally published on February 18, 2025 by Grants Works for its Federal Grant Insights newsletter on LinkedIn.

USAID is becoming more and more of a household name these days because it is the first agency that has been significantly restructured by the current administration.

In ju...

Imagine you’re surrounded by darkness as you’re steering a ship at night and suddenly you see a light in the distance. You maneuver the ship toward the light and as you approach, it gets brighter and brighter. You realize the light is from a beacon atop a lighthouse. Because of the light, you avoid ...

Let's start by defining a passthrough entity.

A passthrough entity (PTE) is a non-federal entity that provides a subaward to a recipient to carry out part of a federal program. If you are a PTE of a federal grant, there are prescribed requirements you must adhere to.

In addition to meeting the fun...

If you are a federal grantee and you have subawardees, you may have questions about how to select, manage, and monitor subawardees.

If you are a subawardee of a federal grant, you may want to know more about your responsibilities.

What is a subaward?

According to Uniform Guidance, a subaward is “an...