Federal Grants

Federal Funding Recipients Should Be Aware of DOJ’s Intensified Focus on FCA Enforcement The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently reported that settlements and judgments under the federal False Claims Act (FCA) [...]

The U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) has begun notifying recipients of Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF) grants that they have been selected for program desk reviews.   The American [...]

Feldesman attorneys Phillip A. Escoriaza and Jesi J. Carlson will present on federal grants compliance at the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) Executive Leaders Program on January [...]

Feldesman Partner Phillip A. Escoriaza will present at the State of Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration annual training on December 3, 2025. The event welcomes over 200 financial professionals across Tennessee’s [...]

Six-Month Delay in Guide to Audits The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released the 2025 Compliance Supplement for Single Audit Act audits. Its issuance as Appendix XI to 2 C.F.R. [...]

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that its updated interpretation of immigration verification requirements for housing and disaster relief grant programs under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity [...]

A conflict of interest (COI) policy is a foundational compliance requirement for many nonprofit corporations.  Most state nonprofit corporation statutes prohibit interested directors from engaging in business with the corporation when a [...]

On November 18, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released updates to its adoption of Federal grant regulations in the Uniform Guidance at 2 C.F.R. Part 300. As [...]

We are hearing from an increasing number of our federal grantee clients who are facing challenges with their Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreements (NICRAs) as a result of significant staffing shortages at [...]

Injunctions Remain in Effect Until Appellate Courts Rule On November 7, 2025, the federal government filed notices of appeal in two separate lawsuits challenging its reinterpretation of what constitutes a “Federal public [...]