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Department Grant Portfolio
Internal tracking of a university department's grant portfolio, including active awards, pending applications, and budget allocations.
This collection contains private fields. Budget details, indirect cost rates, and internal status notes are access-controlled.
Fields
- grant_title — Title of the grant or project
- investigator_name — Lead PI or co-PI name
- investigator_orcid — ORCID identifier (when available)
- funding_agency — Sponsor (NIH, NSF, DOE, DOD, private foundations, internal)
- mechanism — Grant type (R01, R21, CAREER, internal seed, etc.)
- status — Active, pending, completed, or declined
- start_date / end_date — Award period
- total_award — Total award amount
- annual_budget (private) — Current-year budget allocation
- indirect_rate (private) — Negotiated indirect cost rate
- department_contribution (private) — Department cost-share amount
- internal_notes (private) — Administrative notes and status updates
Cross-collection linking
The investigator_orcid field enables joins with NIH grants (pi_orcid), OpenAlex publications (orcid / author_orcid), and faculty search records (candidate_orcid). This allows queries like "show me all pending grants from investigators who also appear in our faculty search."
Note
This is synthetic data generated for demonstration purposes. No real grants or budgets are represented.