Site visit
A funder visiting an applicant or recipient in person — before an award as part of due diligence, or during one as monitoring. On foundation programmes an invitation is usually a good sign; on federal awards it is routine oversight.
Part of the GrantTrove grant funding glossary — one entry for every field the catalogue stores.
Also called Funder visit · Due diligence visit
In detail
A pre-award visit is generally a shortlist signal: funders do not spend a day travelling to see applications they have already declined. Preparing for one is largely a matter of having the people who do the work in the room rather than only the people who wrote about it.
A monitoring visit during an award is scheduled and structured, and records rather than impressions are what it examines.
Against a review panel
A panel reads applications against criteria. A site visit looks at an organisation. They test different things — the plan and the capacity to carry it out — and a strong showing in one does not substitute for the other. Neither appears in any field here, because both happen after a submission we never see.
How GrantTrove stores it
- We hold published opportunities and the funders that publish them, and nothing about applications in progress.
- The tracker is where an organisation keeps its own notes on what it applied for; nothing in it is published or shared, and nothing about it appears in the public catalogue.
Common questions
Is a site visit a good sign?
Before an award, usually. During one, it is routine.
Can I ask for one?
You can invite a funder. Whether they come is theirs to decide.
Do you record them?
No. Nothing about an application is public data.