Reporting schedule
The dates on which reports are due across the life of an award — financial, performance, and final. It is set in the award rather than in the notice, and missing a date on one award can block payments on others.
Part of the GrantTrove grant funding glossary — one entry for every field the catalogue stores.
Also called Reporting calendar · Report due dates
In detail
The schedule is the main ongoing administrative cost of holding a grant, and it is knowable only after award. An organisation holding several grants is managing several unrelated calendars.
Extensions on report dates are frequently available and are almost always easier to obtain before the date than after it. A request made a week early is administrative; the same request made a week late is a compliance conversation.
Against application effort
`application_effort` records how heavy the submission looks, where a notice indicates it. Reporting burden is the cost after winning, and it is not in the notice. The two are different costs at different times, and we hold a signal for the first and nothing for the second — which is worth saying plainly rather than letting the effort field be read as a total.
How GrantTrove stores it
- `application_effort` is a signal about applying and is presented as one, not as an estimate of the whole administrative cost.
- The tracker is where an organisation keeps its own dates for awards it holds; it is private to the account and nothing in it is published.
Common questions
When do I learn the reporting schedule?
At award. It is in the agreement, not the notice.
Can report dates be extended?
Often, and far more easily before the date than after.
Does application effort include reporting?
No. It is about the submission, and we say so rather than letting it be read as a total.