Notice of award
The document that actually awards the money and states the terms you are agreeing to — amount, period, conditions, reporting schedule. It arrives after selection and it is the binding instrument; the notice you applied against is not.
Part of the GrantTrove grant funding glossary — one entry for every field the catalogue stores.
Also called NoA · Award notice · Grant award notice
In detail
It frequently contains terms the funding notice never mentioned: specific conditions attached to your application’s weaknesses, a reduced budget, a shortened period. Reading it as a formality is how organisations discover a condition six months into a project.
Where a budget was cut in the award, the scope is normally expected to be cut with it, and that renegotiation happens at this point rather than later.
Against a NOFO
A NOFO is the published announcement inviting applications; a notice of award is the private document making one. We hold NOFOs, because they are published pages we can link and verify. We hold no award documents at all, because they are not published — and a field for award terms would be empty on every record we have.
How GrantTrove stores it
- `source_url` links the published notice and `last_verified_at` says when we last confirmed that page still said what the record says.
- The record page states plainly which classes of information are not held, so an absence is a stated boundary rather than something a reader has to deduce.
Common questions
Is the award notice the same as the funding notice?
No. One invites applications and is public; the other makes an award and is not.
Can the awarded amount differ from what I asked for?
Frequently. The award document is what governs, and a reduced budget usually implies a reduced scope.
Do you hold award terms?
No. They are not published, and an empty column would misrepresent that.