Grant Compliance Risk Diagnostic

The Grant Compliance Risk Diagnostic, delivered by ReddStrategy Group in 15 business days from the day your documents are accepted. A fixed-fee management diagnostic of grant governance documentation, led by a Certified Fraud Examiner. We tell your board and management where your grant records are most exposed, before a funder or regulator asks first.

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What the diagnostic is

Federal and state grants carry documentation duties that most organizations meet with good intentions and thin records. The Grant Compliance Risk Diagnostic looks at the records behind your grant spending across seven areas, runs deterministic data analytics over your transaction ledger, and produces a written diagnostic assessment your leadership can act on.

Everything is done to a fixed fee on a fixed business-day clock (15 business days). You receive a management diagnostic report — written for your management and board — with an estimated exposure figure for every included observation, so you can plan recommended actions and set aside reserves before an awarding agency ever raises a question.

What you receive

A document request across seven diagnostic areas, tracked item by item through a secure client portal.
A diagnostic assessment of your grant governance documentation.
Observations with what we observed, the requirement that applies, likely cause, potential effect and a recommended action — each one authorized by a person, never generated.
Estimated exposure figures shown with the basis they were derived from, clearly labeled as planning estimates.
The analytic checks that were not run, stated plainly — because the absence of a result is not a clean result.

How it works

Step 1

Engagement opens

We set up your engagement, create your portal account and issue a document request tailored to your award.

Step 2

Document request

A clear checklist of what to share, grouped by area. Every item is tracked from requested to accepted, and you can see its status at any time.

Step 3

The clock

15 business days from the day your documents are accepted, skipping weekends and your published holidays. You can see the day count, and pauses are recorded with a reason.

Step 4

Forensic data analytics

Deterministic analytic checks over the records you share — duplicate payments, procurement-threshold patterns, split purchases, unallowable-cost language and more. Analytic checks produce candidates for people to consider, never conclusions.

Step 5

Diagnostic observations

Each observation is written, supported and authorized by a person before it can appear in a report. Analytics never label anything on their own.

Step 6

Your report

A management diagnostic report with the basis shown beside every estimated exposure figure, the analytic checks that were not run, and the governing authority cited.

Seven diagnostic areas

The document request and the assessment both follow the same map, grounded in the federal uniform guidance at 2 CFR Part 200, together with the terms of each federal, State, local government or corporate award.

Internal Control Structure

Personnel Cost Documentation

Cost Allocation & Indirect Costs

Procurement & Contracting

Subrecipient & Contractor Oversight

Financial Reporting Integrity

Governance & Continuity

Plus general items

Award agreements, budgets, financial policies and other records that frame everything above.

What this is not

It is not an audit, review, examination, attestation, or agreed-upon procedures engagement, and its observations are not audit findings.
ReddStrategy Group is not a certified public accounting firm and provides no assurance of any kind.
It is not a fraud examination. The data analytics identify candidates for management consideration; they are not allegations of wrongdoing.

Dollar figures are planning estimates, not determinations of questioned, unsupported or disallowed costs — only an awarding agency or pass-through entity can make those.
The report is prepared solely for your management and board. No third party may rely on it.
ReddStrategy Group is not a CPA firm. No certified public accountant reviews, signs or takes responsibility for this work.

Every delivered report carries the full disclaimer, printed on page one and repeated in the limitations section. The system will not deliver a report without it.

Ready to open an engagement?

Tell us about your award and we will scope the engagement, set the fee and issue the document request. Existing clients and staff can sign in to the console.

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