Finding 1215465 (2025-008)

Material Weakness Repeat Finding
Requirement
L
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2025
Accepted
2026-05-26

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: The Foundation failed to submit required FFATA sub-award reports for three instances, indicating a lack of compliance with federal reporting requirements.
  • Impacted Requirements: The Foundation did not have internal policies or procedures for FFATA, leading to staff unawareness of the reporting obligations.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: Establish clear internal policies on FFATA, communicate requirements to staff, and provide regular training to ensure compliance.

Finding Text

Finding 2025-008: Reporting for Federal Fund and Accountability Transparency Act (Significant Deficiency) Federal Agency: National Institute of Health Federal Program: All of Us Research Program Assistance Listing Number: 93.368 Criteria: In accordance with 2 CFR Chapter 1, Part 170, prime awardees of a Federal grant are required to file a FFATA sub-award report by the end of the month following the month in which the prime awardee awards any sub-award equal to or greater than $30,000 in Federal funds that does not include recovery funds. Condition: We identified three instances in which the Foundation did not submit a sub-recipient's FFATA report. Cause: The Foundation does not have internal policies or procedures outlining the FFATA requirements and management and staff within the Foundation were unaware of the requirement. Effect or Potential Effect: The Foundation was not in compliance with FFATA reporting requirements. Questioned Costs: None noted as this compliance requirement is a administrative reporting requirement that does not impact cost eligibility. Context: We performed statistical sampling procedures over the Foundation's sub-recipients required to be reported under FFATA. We consider this sample representative of the population. Identification as a Repeat Finding: Not a repeat finding. Recommendation: We recommend that the Foundation establish internal policies and procedures with respect to FFATA requirements, clearly communicate FFATA reporting requirements to responsible staff, and conduct regular trainings to ensure that there is an understanding of requirements to be in compliance with FFATA.

Corrective Action Plan

Views of Responsible Officials: The Foundation will retroactively receive the FFATA reports for their sub-recipients, and going forward will ensure that the FFATA reports are received and submitted for all sub-recipients.

Categories

Subrecipient Monitoring Eligibility Reporting Significant Deficiency

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 1215461 2025-004
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1215462 2025-005
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1215463 2025-006
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1215464 2025-007
    Material Weakness Repeat

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
93.368 21ST CENTURY CURES ACT - PRECISION MEDICINE INITIATIVE $1.65M