Answers.Body: <p>That's totally possible - I have one medium size org that uses Grants exclusively for this purpose. We're using some simple Word Replacements -> in civicrm/admin/options/wordreplacements?reset=1 to help Staff use native CiviCRM Grants to track income:</p>
  
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Body: <p>Our charity doesn't offer grants but applies for a fair few. Having had a play around with CiviGrant, I can't see any immediate problem with using the component as a way of tracking grants that we've applied for and received etc. but the documentation from Civi suggests it's only for managing grants going out of the charity:</p>
  
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    <p>In contrast to CiviContribute, which tracks money going <em>into</em> your organisation, CiviGrant tracks money going <em>out</em> of your organisation. CiviGrant has a data structure and workflows that support the grant application process with the ability to manage the amount applied for, amount received and any reports necessary for the process.</p>
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  <p>I created a sample organisation as a contact to attach to the grant and all seems OK to use as a way of managing incoming grants. Just wondering if the community knows something I don't as to why this might not work e.g scaling, reports etc.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Joxley - is there a specific reason that you wouldn't want to use CiviContribute to track grant income to your organisation? Also a small mention for https://github.com/compucorp/uk.co.compucorp.civicrm.prospect might be useful for opportunity tracking of grants. best
Comments.UserDisplayName: Jamie Novick - Compucorp
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Title: Using CiviGrant as the applicant/recipient
ThreadText: # Using CiviGrant as the applicant/recipient
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-11-29)
  
  Our charity doesn't offer grants but applies for a fair few. Having had a play around with CiviGrant, I can't see any immediate problem with using the component as a way of tracking grants that we've applied for and received etc. but the documentation from Civi suggests it's only for managing grants going out of the charity:
  
  > In contrast to CiviContribute, which tracks money going *into* your organisation, CiviGrant tracks money going *out* of your organisation. CiviGrant has a data structure and workflows that support the grant application process with the ability to manage the amount applied for, amount received and any reports necessary for the process.
  
  I created a sample organisation as a contact to attach to the grant and all seems OK to use as a way of managing incoming grants. Just wondering if the community knows something I don't as to why this might not work e.g scaling, reports etc.
  
  **Tags:** wordpress, evaluating-civicrm, civigrant
  
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  > **username_1**: username_0 - is there a specific reason that you wouldn't want to use CiviContribute to track grant income to your organisation? Also a small mention for https://github.com/username_1/uk.co.username_1.civicrm.prospect might be useful for opportunity tracking of grants. best  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2019-11-29. Score: 6 | Accepted answer
  
  That's totally possible - I have one medium size org that uses Grants exclusively for this purpose. We're using some simple Word Replacements -> in civicrm/admin/options/wordreplacements?reset=1 to help Staff use native CiviCRM Grants to track income:
  
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