Hi Liz,

No override is needed.  I will call you to walk through the budgeting procedure to isolate the mandatory match amount while accounting for the 5% F&A we are allowed to charge.

Jennifer

From: Elizabeth Tilley <elizabeth.tilley@utsa.edu>
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2025 10:46 AM
To: Rowdy Research (rowdy.research@lists.it.utsa.edu) <rowdy.research@lists.it.utsa.edu>; Jennifer Beckcom <jennifer.beckcom@utsa.edu>
Cc: Kirstin Wilsey <Kirstin.Wilsey@utsa.edu>
Subject: [Rowdy.research] Unrecovered F&A on current cost share worksheet

Hi All,

I’m working on a couple CPRITS which allow the use of unrecovered F&A as cost share.  I’ve added Kirstin to this email as she is well-versed with cost share 😊  and may be able to provide guidance.  When I enter cost share on our internal cost share calculation sheet, I do not see that the “unrecovered F&A” section is calculating on the difference of the budget request, but actually on the direct cost share portion.  Should we just override the formula and enter that unrecovered F&A from the direct budget request in that section?  I don’t do this often enough to remember the workaround; however, I think we may need to update the cost share worksheet to account for unrecovered F&A from the direct budget request not the direct cost share request only. I also pasted the section of the worksheet below the definition.  That $37k that is calculated from the cost share request, not from what I have in the direct cost budget request.  Hopefully, my question makes sense. 

Disclaimer: I may just misunderstand how this cost share worksheet is working (???)  and welcome corrections to my interpretation 😉

Thanks!

DEFINITION OF COST SHARE FROM CPRIT GUIDELINES:

Elizabeth H. Escoto (formerly Tilley), PhD

Sr. Research Administrator

COS College Research Administration Teams

Office of Research

The University of Texas at San Antonio

cell: 347.299.1641

One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249-3209

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