Continuation award
The next budget period’s money on a multi-year award, released without a new competition if progress and appropriations allow. It is not guaranteed, and the progress report is what it is decided on.
Part of the GrantTrove grant funding glossary — one entry for every field the catalogue stores.
Also called Non-competing continuation · Continuation funding
In detail
Because it is non-competing, it is easy to treat as automatic, and it is not: agencies withhold or reduce continuations on the basis of reports, unspent balances, or overdue deliverables.
Continuations are also the first casualty of an appropriations problem, which is a risk entirely outside a recipient’s control and worth planning for on any multi-year project.
Against a renewal
A continuation is the next slice of an existing award. A renewal is a fresh competitive application for a new award after the old one ends. The word "renewal" is used loosely for both, and the difference is whether you are competing. Neither appears on our records, which describe opportunities open to new applicants.
How GrantTrove stores it
- `status` on a record says whether an opportunity is forecasted, open, closed or archived, so a closed programme is visibly closed rather than quietly stale.
- A record is not moved to closed on a single failed check: three consecutive failures across at least 48 hours are required, because a portal being down is not a programme ending.
Common questions
Is a continuation guaranteed?
No. It depends on progress, on unspent balances, and on appropriations.
Do you list continuation opportunities?
Only where an agency publishes one as an opportunity. Most continuations are private to the existing recipient.
What is the difference from a renewal?
A renewal is competed. A continuation is not.