Analysis of grant awards

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Summary

Goal: find out which applications from grants.gov are getting actual awards. This will help us build our analytics funnels for understanding the effectiveness of our changes to both grants.gov and NOFOs.

We can get this information from using the Funding Opportunity Number (FON) that is available in both grants.gov and USAspending/DAIMS (i.e., the unique identifier of an individual Notice of Funding Opportunity or NOFO) to match the data of applications from grants.gov to the data of awardees from USASpending.

To do this, we will need to:

• Get access to the application data from grants.gov
• Download the existing data from USASpending.gov (as described below), which will have some but not all Funding Opportunity Numbers (FONs) listed
• Attempt to match this data as a beginning analysis of which applications are receiving awards

Notes

• Funding Opportunity Number (FON) becomes a required field for USASpending on October 1 2023
• FON numbers are available here: https://www.usaspending.gov/download_center/award_data_archive

Acceptance criteria

• Get a list of applications that are actually getting awards

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