Finance
Grant compliance review
Formal definition
Grant compliance review is a charity finance term for managing grant lifecycles from bid to reporting while meeting funder terms and deadlines.
What this actually means for you
Use Grant compliance review to guide live decisions: assign accountable owners for milestones, reporting evidence, and spend eligibility checks, with ownership and reporting agreed at month-end and before trustee reporting cycles.
Example: In a live quarterly cycle, Grant compliance review is applied like this: grant managers track reporting milestones in one calendar and flag slippage before funder deadlines are missed. The team then records the decision trail in evidence logs, findings summaries, and remediation actions.
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