Full-cost coverage
What the award pays for against what delivery actually costs, including the indirect recovery that remains unrecovered under the funder's cap.
Grant Economics Review
Determine what the award is actually worth to your organization.
A grant's face value is not its usable value. Grant Economics examines what the opportunity provides, what it requires, and what your organization would have to subsidize or carry.
The problem
The budget can balance while the grant still weakens the organization.
An opportunity can be aligned, allowable, and apparently funded while leaving material costs outside the award. Reimbursement delays, capped indirect recovery, match timing, reporting labor, restrictions, and partial funding can turn a promising award into a demand on unrestricted cash and staff capacity.
Grant Economics makes those consequences visible before the pursuit decision.
What it examines
Seven dimensions of what an award asks you to carry.
Each dimension is evaluated against the opportunity's own terms and the organization's own records, not against a benchmark or a generic profile.
Payment structure and cash exposure
Payment method, reimbursement timing, and the working capital the organization would have to carry before funds arrive.
Match and source conflicts
Match amount, timing, eligibility, and whether the same source is already committed against another opportunity.
Reporting and administrative burden
Compliance labor, reporting cycles, and staffing demand that sit outside the funded budget and land on existing capacity.
Partial-award fragility
What breaks if the award is reduced. Fixed obligations rarely shrink in proportion to a reduced award.
Restrictions and portfolio pressure
Restricted use, concentration, and the financial pressure created across the awards the organization already carries.
Questions answered
The questions a pursuit decision actually turns on.
- How much of the organization's full cost does the award actually cover?
- What indirect cost remains unrecovered?
- How much cash may need to be carried before reimbursement?
- Are match commitments eligible, available, and timed correctly?
- What reporting and administrative labor sits outside the funded budget?
- What happens if the award is reduced or only partially funded?
- Which restrictions or obligations conflict with current awards?
- Does the opportunity create strategic capacity or consume it?
The deliverable
A decision memo, not another dashboard.
The Grant Economics Review documents:
- The supported economics of the opportunity
- Material exposures and their source
- Scenario changes that alter the conclusion
- Missing facts that prevent a responsible conclusion
- The recommended route and the condition that would change it
- The implications for the organization's current grant portfolio
Every material conclusion is reviewed by Cameron and remains traceable to the record used to produce it.
Boundaries
What this is not. Grant Economics is pre-award decision support. It does not provide an audit opinion, legal or tax advice, an eligibility determination, a negotiated indirect-cost-rate proposal, or a prediction of whether the funder will make an award.
Make the economic decision before making the proposal investment.
Start with the opportunity, the decision deadline, and the people who need to act on the result.