Matching findings
How we decide a finding might be yours.
A finding is marked Yours if either of these is true of an award it touches:
- Program: the award's Assistance Listing number is on your list for that organization, and the award wasn't received directly from a federal agency.
- Name: the pass-through name in the audit matches a name you go by.
Names are written many ways
Auditees type these names themselves. We ignore case, punctuation and words like "the" and "of", expand common abbreviations such as Dept and
state codes before agency words such as PA Department, and allow small typos. We avoid lookalikes, so Virginia won't match West Virginia.
Acronyms are the common miss. Add your own, such as ODH, to Names you go by, or click them in the list of names your subrecipients use.
How well it works
On names from 2024 audits, 98% of awards naming one state health agency matched from its full name alone, and 94% for one state human services agency, before adding any other names. These are samples we read by hand, not a guarantee.
It can be wrong
- A finding may be marked yours when it isn't. For example, "Ohio Department of Health and Human Services" contains a state agency's name but might mean the federal department.
- A finding may be missed, so glance at Findings to review as well.
- Audits say who passed money through, but not which subaward. A match means "an award from you", so check it against your own records.