Finding Text
2024-001 –Grant Agreements
Federal Assistance Listing Number: 84.031
Name of Program or Cluster: 84.031 Higher Education Institutional Aid: Opening the Gate: Improving Math Success for STEM Careers (Endowment Corpus)--84.031C, Closing the Completion Gap for HIS Community-College Graduate (Endowment Corpus)--84.031C, Picking Up the Pace: Ensuring Hispanic Degree Completion (Endowment Corpus)--84.031S, Proyecto Stem: Evidence-Based Approaches to STEM Enrollment (Endowment Corpus)--84.031C
Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Name of Passed-Through Entity: New Jersey City University (the “University”)
Criteria: Per federal regulation CFR 624.41 paragraph (a) (1), an institution that the Secretary selects to receive an endowment challenge grant shall enter into an agreement with the Secretary to administer the endowment challenge grant.
Condition: New Jersey City University Foundation, Inc. and Affiliate, (the “Organization”), was unable to present a formalized subrecipient agreement entered into at the inception of the endowment between the University and the Organization.
Cause: Programs were initiated between the years 2013 through 2018 and were audited as part of the University’s audits in accordance with Uniform Guidance. The Organization’s staff have been unable to locate these agreements which were entered into several years ago.
Effect: Noncompliance with federal regulation over grant compliance requirements.
Questioned Costs: None.
Repeat Finding: Yes, see finding 2023-001.
Recommendation: The Organization should maintain all records for Endowment Challenge Grants in accordance with federal regulation over grant compliance requirements.
Views of Responsible Official: See corrective action plan attached.