19 Aug
2008
19 Aug
'08
8:43 p.m.
On Tuesday 19 August 2008, William Donzelli wrote:
As a data point, my employer (Purdue) requires that 52% of all money
received from a grant that's not for capital equipment go
to "administrative overhead". All grants, and all costs that are not
capital equipment (for Purdue, that's equipment purchases of $2500 or
over) are required to have this, and the individual receiving the grant
funds doesn't see $0.01 of the "overhead" money collected.
This of course doesn't mean that small organizations will be able to do
this, as I'm sure a small startup computer museum won't have the
bargaining power to ask for or expect this, but I'd expect that some
level of administrative overhead expenses would be reasonable, at a
level of a few %.
Pat
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Yeah, but part
of the grant always goes to administrative overhead.
Splat!
"Administrative overhead" is a big red flag for the organizations
that are issuing the grants. It is the easiest way to hide little
"extras" in a grant that get used for things outside the scope of the
proposal.