Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A proposal cover page lists three active awards with effort percentages summing to 60 percent of the PI's commitment.
- Is an instance
Active grants disclosure is updated annually as part of progress reporting.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
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A closed grant whose final report has been accepted is no longer active.
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A submitted but unfunded proposal is pending, not active.
Editorial commentary
Active grants are those for which work is being performed during the disclosure window, regardless of funding source. Disclosure typically includes sponsor, project title, role of the investigator, person-months of effort, total award value, and project period. Active grants disclosure is a subset of current and pending support and the NIH Other Support frameworks. It supports overlap analysis, conflict of commitment review, and verification of effort allocations.
How this differs from pending disclosure and NIH Other Support
Active grants disclosure covers funded, ongoing work — the companion category to pending grants disclosure, which covers proposals still awaiting a decision. At NSF, the two are not filed separately: both live inside the single “Current and Pending (Other) Support” module built on the NSPM-33 Common Disclosure Form (SciENcv, required for proposals due on or after 30 January 2023 under PAPPG NSF 23-1). At NIH, active support instead sits inside the broader Other Support document alongside pending and in-kind resources, a distinct funder-specific artifact rather than a general disclosure category.
Why it matters operationally
Accurate active-grants disclosure is what makes conflict-of-commitment review possible: a sponsor or institutional office sums an investigator’s committed effort across all active awards and checks it does not exceed what the individual can realistically deliver, typically capped around 100 percent of appointment time once teaching, clinical, and administrative duties are also accounted for. Because commitments change constantly, most institutions require active-grants disclosure to be refreshed at proposal submission, at just-in-time, and at each progress report — a stale figure understates real overlap risk rather than merely being administratively out of date.
References
- NSPM-33 Implementation Guidance (2022); NIH NOT-OD-21-073 (2021).
Also known as
active awards disclosure · active funding disclosure
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