Federal grant compliance, designed around 2 CFR 200
If you administer federal awards, or pass-through funding like ARPA and SLFRF, the record you keep has to satisfy Uniform Guidance and a single audit. GrantDesk is designed around 2 CFR 200 so that eligibility, allowable-cost, and monitoring evidence is captured as the work happens, not reconstructed at closeout.
What makes federal compliance hard in spreadsheets
Uniform Guidance expects documented eligibility, allowable and allocable costs, sub-recipient risk assessment and monitoring, and a clear audit trail from application through closeout. When intake lives in email and tracking lives in spreadsheets, that evidence is scattered across inboxes and versions. It usually holds together until a monitor or a single-audit asks to see how a specific determination was made, and then the reconstruction begins.
How GrantDesk supports Uniform Guidance
GrantDesk captures the compliance evidence in line, not after the fact. Program eligibility rules are configured once and applied to every application. Required certifications and documents are part of intake, so an incomplete file cannot quietly advance. Budget and cost items are checked, and cost items that read as unallowable are flagged for a human to confirm. Every eligibility decision, score, award, disbursement, and report is written to an immutable, hash-chained audit log, so any determination can be traced back to the evidence behind it.
ARPA, SLFRF, and program-specific rules
Programs funded through ARPA and the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds carry their own eligibility categories, reporting periods, and expenditure rules on top of the Uniform Guidance baseline. GrantDesk models these as program configuration, eligibility rules, required documents, award ceilings, and reporting cadence, so a program's specific requirements are enforced without custom code.
Audit-ready by construction
Because the system records the rule and the values behind every decision, the audit file is a byproduct of running the program rather than a separate project. Staff can show not just that an application was approved, but which eligibility checks it passed, what was scored, and who signed. AI-drafted progress and closeout report sections assemble from that same data for staff to review and finalize.
Honest scope
GrantDesk is designed to support your compliance work; it does not replace your responsibility for it, and it does not claim a completed FERPA, FedRAMP, or single-audit certification. What it provides is the structure, the checks, and the audit trail that make compliance defensible. Technical detail is in the integration guide.
Common questions
Does GrantDesk guarantee we are compliant?
No tool can. GrantDesk is designed around 2 CFR 200 and captures the eligibility, cost, monitoring, and audit evidence that make compliance defensible. The determinations and the responsibility remain yours.
Can it handle both federal and non-federal programs?
Yes. Each program is configured with its own funding source, eligibility rules, and reporting cadence, so federal, state, and local programs run side by side with the right rules applied to each.
How does it help at single-audit time?
Every decision is logged with the rule and values behind it, and records tie from application to award to disbursement to report. The audit trail is a byproduct of running the program, not a separate reconstruction.
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