Use case · Grant recipient screening
Release funds to organizations you’ve actually checked.
A grant is a bet on an organization and the people who lead it. We confirm the applicant exists as described and that its leadership carries no sanctions, exclusions, fraud or financial distress your board would want to know about.
What goes wrong without it
What an application can’t prove.
Excluded or sanctioned leadership
Officers on sanctions lists or excluded from federal awards, which can taint your whole program.
Funds that went missing before
Fraud claims, judgments and regulatory actions tied to the organization or its leaders.
An organization in distress
Tax liens, bankruptcies and lapsed registrations that put the grant’s purpose at risk.
What we check
The searches that matter most before an award.
Every grant case runs the full package on the organization and its leaders. These are the searches that most often change a funding decision.
See all 28 searches →SAM.gov award check
Exclusions from federal awards for the organization and its leaders.
OFAC and global sanctions
Sanctioned people, organizations or affiliates anywhere in the applicant’s leadership.
Corporate records
That the organization is registered, in good standing and run by the people named.
County civil · Federal district civil
Fraud claims, misuse-of-funds suits and judgments against the organization.
Federal tax liens · State tax liens
Federal and state tax liens that signal an organization in financial trouble.
News and media
Reporting on the organization’s work and leadership beyond its own materials.
What a finding looks like
Graded, sourced and matched to the right person.
Each finding tells you what happened, how serious it is and how we know it’s the same person, with the record attached for your file.
Sample finding · fictional subject
SAM.gov — active exclusion
HighSubject: Daniel Okafor, executive director of the applicant. Listed with an active federal exclusion since 2022, after a prior organization he led was found to have misused a federal subaward. The application listed him as program lead.
- Source
- SAM.gov record
- Identity match
- Name, address history, prior organization
Exclusion record attached
Where it fits
From application to the final report.
At shortlist
Open the case
Add the shortlisted organizations and their leaders, several at once if you like.
Before award
Read the report
Findings arrive in about 5 business days, before the award is announced or funds are released.
Over the grant
Keep watching
Continuous monitoring re-screens grantees daily and alerts you when something new appears.
Questions
Grant recipient screening, answered.
Can we screen a whole funding round?
Yes. Several applicants can be submitted at once in the client portal; each becomes its own case with its own report.
Do you cover international grantees?
Yes. We cover 100+ countries through in-country partners, with source-language records and English translations, quoted per jurisdiction.
Is the screening documented for our auditors?
Yes. Every report lists each source and jurisdiction searched, so a clean result is documented as well as a finding.