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Federal grant compliance, research and training

The knowledge hub for federal grant compliance

If your organization manages federal awards, your team has to answer for every dollar at audit. Grants Research Center helps grantees, nonprofits, and agencies understand the requirements that draw findings and meet them with confidence. Our research and training come from former federal auditors.

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91%
of single audit findings tend to cluster in just a few requirement areas, and the same ones recur year after year.
GRC review of education-sector single audits · illustrative figure, methodology forthcoming
Our focus areas

The grantees we work with

We focus on the sectors that carry the most federal compliance risk, and the teams that answer for it at audit.

The GRC difference

Why grantees choose GRC

Everything we publish and teach comes from the same place: what actually happens when a federal award is audited.

Research-backed

We study compliance outcomes before every session, so your training reflects the requirements that matter most for your programs.

Practitioner-led

Our instructors have conducted single audits. They teach the requirements from the auditor's side, including what reviewers test and the documentation they expect.

Certificate of completion

Every webinar includes a certificate. Training that keeps your team compliant is frequently allowable under 2 CFR 200.454(b) and chargeable to your award.

Audit-tested frameworks

Our checklists come out of real audit fieldwork and follow the way auditors work, so you can see what gets tested and where your gaps are.

Our researchers

Former federal auditors and compliance specialists

Our team spent years inside single audit and oversight engagements. Today they help grantees prepare their documentation and controls before the auditor arrives.

Fidel Wambura, CPA
Founder
Former federal grant auditor. Led single-audit engagements across the education sector. Founder of Wamcore.
Senior Researcher
Former OIG
Single-audit specialist joining the research desk this fall. Named announcement to follow.
Compliance Researcher
Former agency
Cognizant-agency background in cost principles and grantee oversight.
Sector Instructor
CPA · CGFM
Leads sector-specific training for education and higher-education grantees.

Meet the full research team →

In their own words Illustrative samples

What our participants tell us

Video coming soon
Sarah Mitchell
Grants Manager · Community Action Network

"The webinar on the latest oversight guidance was exactly what our compliance team needed. You can tell it comes from real fieldwork, not a slide deck."

Sarah Mitchell
Community Action Network
James Okonkwo
Regional Housing Authority
Laura Reyes
State Legal Aid Society
Who we serve

Built for grantees and auditors across the country

GRC is built to serve nonprofits, housing authorities, universities, legal-aid organizations, and the agencies that fund them.

Become a partner

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From our participants Sample

What grantees say

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★★★★★
"The webinar on the latest oversight guidance was exactly what our compliance team needed. Fidel brings the auditor's perspective into every example, and you can tell it comes from real fieldwork."
Sarah Mitchell
Grants Manager · Community Action Network
Grants Research Center publishes independent research on federal grant compliance, and trains the teams who answer for it.
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For grantees

Know what auditors look for

Research, training, and audit readiness tools that help your team walk into the next single audit prepared, with the controls and documentation reviewers expect.

For auditors & agencies

Insight on where risk concentrates

We publish findings-level analysis across the grantees we study, so agencies and auditors can focus oversight on the requirements that recur most.