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Grants Research Center
About

We help organizations meet federal grant requirements with confidence

Grants Research Center is an independent research and training center focused on one question: why do federal grantees get flagged in audit, and what actually prevents it?

Our work

Research first

We read single audits, oversight reports, and the regulations behind them, then publish what we learn. Our training follows the research, not the other way around.

Who leads it

Former federal auditors

The people setting our research agenda spent years inside single-audit and oversight engagements. They know what an auditor looks for because they used to be the auditor.

91%
of the single-audit findings we reviewed trace back to just four requirement areas.
GRC finding-level review of education-sector single audits · illustrative figure, methodology forthcoming
How we work with grantees

From research to readiness

The research tells us where the risk concentrates. These are the ways we help organizations act on it.

Service 01

Grant audit readiness

A structured review of your documentation and controls against the requirement areas that draw the most findings, before your auditor runs the same test.

Service 02

Mock audit

A practice single audit run by our affiliated CPA firm, Wamcore LLP, so your team sees the questions and the evidence requests in advance.

Service 03

Training & certification

Live and on-demand training on the compliance areas your team owns, building toward a recognized grant-compliance credential.

Audit readiness and mock-audit engagements are provided through our affiliated CPA firm, Wamcore LLP. Under federal cost principles, the reasonable cost of preparing for a required audit is generally an allowable charge to the award, while the cost of the independent single audit itself follows the rules at 2 CFR 200.425. Charge decisions remain yours and your auditor's; we'll point to the relevant provisions, not make the call for you.
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