Recipient

In detail

A notice describes intent; a list of past recipients describes behaviour. A program open to organisations of any size that has only ever funded large hospital systems has told you something its eligibility section did not.

Recipient records carry their own fields — name, state, organisation type, amount, fiscal year, project title — and their own verification dates, because they come from award reporting rather than from the opportunity page.

Coverage here is uneven and stated plainly. Award reporting is published unevenly across levels of government, so the absence of a recipient list for a program is a fact about the reporting, not about the program.

Against an award ceiling

A ceiling is a permission and a recipient record is an outcome. Where both exist they frequently disagree, and the disagreement is the useful part — a $500,000 ceiling against a history of $60,000 awards tells you what to request. They are separate tables and are never averaged together, and a program with no recipient history shows none rather than an estimate.

How GrantTrove stores it

• Recipient records are a separate table keyed to the funder and, where the link is known, to the opportunity, so history sits beside the program rather than inside its description.
• Where our coverage of a program’s award history is partial, the page says how many records it is showing rather than presenting a partial list as complete.

Common questions