Program income

In detail

There are three standard treatments, and the award decides which applies: add the income to the project budget, deduct it from what the funder pays, or use it to meet a cost share. They have very different consequences and the default when a notice is silent is usually deduction, which is the least favourable of the three.

Income earned after the period of performance ends is generally outside the rules, but only if the award does not say otherwise. Some awards extend the obligation, which turns a revenue stream into a reporting duty for years.

Against the award amount

The award is what the funder gives. Programme income is what the funded activity earns afterwards. Under the deduction treatment the second reduces the first, which means a project that succeeds commercially can receive less cash than one that does not — a consequence worth understanding before designing a fee into a project. No column here is either.

How GrantTrove stores it

• We store what a funder published about the opportunity. Programme income terms are award terms, published in the notice and in the award document, and the record links the notice.
• The disbursement fields we do hold — `is_reimbursement` and `reimbursement_basis` — describe how the funder pays, not how the project earns.

Common questions