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See Every Compliance Deadline in One List

Published: Last updated: Reviewed: Sources: ecfr.gov ecfr.gov

Short answer

Compliance Deadline Radar is one screen. It pulls every dated obligation GrantPipe already tracks into a single forward-looking list, grouped by how soon each item is due. Staff stop checking four screens to answer one question: what is due?

The problem

One plain question takes four screens to answer: what is due next? The grant due date sits in the pipeline. The report date sits on the grant. The closeout list sits in another place. The fund release date sits on the fund. The fiscal close sits on the calendar.

So a finance lead checks one screen. Then another. Then a third. She writes the dates on a sticky note or a side list. That side list goes stale the moment a real date changes. When the side list is wrong, a deadline slips. A missed grant report can cost more than a year of software.

How GrantPipe solves it

Compliance Deadline Radar is one screen. It reads every dated task GrantPipe already holds. Then it shows them in one list that looks ahead. You enter nothing new. The radar just reads what is already there.

The list is grouped by how soon each item is due. The groups are Overdue, Due today, This week, This month, and Later. The rows that need you sit at the top. Want only report dates? Filter by type. Every row links to the record it came from. The radar is where you start the work, not where you get stuck.

What it covers

The radar pulls five kinds of dated obligations into the list:

  • Grant application deadlines from the grant pipeline
  • Grant reporting requirements from each grant’s reporting schedule
  • Grant closeout items from the closeout checklist
  • Restricted-fund release dates from each fund’s restriction terms
  • Fiscal-period closes from the fiscal calendar

These five already live in GrantPipe. The radar does not invent a sixth. Its job is to gather what exists. It does not track new things the system does not hold. It does not track audit windows or pledge payments. GrantPipe does not track those either.

How it works

  1. Open the radar from anywhere in GrantPipe
  2. Read the list, grouped from Overdue down to Later
  3. Filter by obligation type when you want a narrower view
  4. Click any row to open its source record
  5. Do the work in that record, then come back to the list

There is no setup step. The radar reads dates you already have. It works as soon as your grants, reports, funds, and fiscal periods are in the system.

Who it’s for

This is for finance and program staff who run several grants at once. Picture the director in a board meeting. Someone asks what is coming due. Now there is one honest answer. Picture the grants manager who once lost a date on a screen nobody opened that week.

Have you kept a side list of due dates because the real ones were scattered? This view is for you.

Why GrantPipe built it this way

We made the radar read-only on purpose. The records stay in charge. The grant owns its due and report dates. The fund owns its release dates. The fiscal calendar owns the close dates. The radar borrows those dates. It sorts them by urgency. One person can see the whole picture in seconds.

Read-only also keeps it honest. A radar row shows the same date as its record. When the record changes, the radar changes too.

What it replaces

  • The side spreadsheet of due dates that drifts out of sync
  • The four-screen hunt to answer one question before a meeting
  • The sticky note with three deadlines and a missing fourth
  • The missed report that nobody saw coming because no single screen showed it

For reminders that arrive before a date, pair the radar with Grant Calendar and Deadline Alerts. For the restriction terms behind those fund release dates, see Restricted Fund Tracking.

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Q&A

What is Compliance Deadline Radar?

It is one screen in GrantPipe that lists every dated compliance obligation the system already tracks. The list looks forward, groups items by urgency, and links each row to its source record. It covers grant application deadlines, grant reporting requirements, grant closeout items, restricted-fund release dates, and fiscal-period closes.

Q&A

Why build a single deadline view instead of more alerts?

Alerts tell you about one item at a time. The radar answers a different question: what is due across the whole organization right now? Staff were opening the grant list, the reporting view, the fund ledger, and the fiscal calendar to assemble that picture by hand. The radar assembles it for them.

Q&A

Does the radar change any of my data?

No. It is read-only. It reads dates from grants, reports, closeouts, funds, and fiscal periods and shows them together. Nothing on the radar edits the records it points to.

Frequently asked

Frequently Asked Questions

The radar covers five kinds of dated obligations. Those are grant application deadlines, grant reporting requirements, grant closeout items, restricted-fund release dates, and fiscal-period closes. Each one already lives in GrantPipe, so the radar reads from records you already keep.
No. The radar does not create new records or ask for new fields. It surfaces dates that already exist across grants, reports, funds, and fiscal periods so you can see them in one place instead of four.
Items are grouped by urgency into Overdue, Due today, This week, This month, and Later. You can also filter the list by obligation type. Every row links straight to the record it came from.
Yes. Each row links to its source record. Click a reporting deadline and you land on the grant report. Click a fund release date and you land on the restricted fund. The radar is a launch point, not a dead end.
No. The radar is a read-only view of dates GrantPipe already holds. It does not send the alerts and it does not close your books. It gives finance and program staff one shared answer to what is due next.

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