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Funding Sources
This document describes the numbers used to identify the funding sources for campus funds to Russell Labs.
Audience
- Entomology, Plant Pathology, and Forest & Wildlife faculty and staff; Hub staff
Overview
Every university expenditure is tied to a funding string made up of these components:
| Name | Digits | Number or Alphanumeric |
Describes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Account Code | Four | Number | Categorizes the nature of the transaction; e.g. lab supplies |
| Fund | Three | Number | Funding source, AKA where the money is coming from |
| Project | Various formats over the years, currently seven |
Alphanumeric | Used to capture all the transactions associated with a specific grant, contract, or activity |
| Department | Six | Alphanumeric | College and department under which the spending takes place |
| Program | One | Number | The purpose or mission of the transaction; e.g. instruction versus outreach |
Learn more about the components of a funding string here.
CALS/Russell Labs Funding Sources
| Fund | Description |
|---|---|
| 101 | State tax, Federal indirect cost, and tuition funding allocated for the purpose of education and related programs |
| 104 | Funding from UW-Extension used for off campus credit and non-credit activities |
| 133 | Non-Federal grants and contracts |
| 135 | University Grants, often from Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) |
| 136 | Cost recovery outreach funding mechanism, program revenue, fee for services |
| 142 | Federal formula funding, often know as Hatch Adams or McIntire-Stennis, Land Grant Research |
| 144 | Federal grants and contract funding |
| 145 | Federal student work study |
| 150 | Federal indirect cost reimbursement used for special allocations |
| 161 | University administered trust funds |
| 233 | Gift funding originating from the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association |
Resources
- UW System Chart of Accounts page. Follow links to current year Appropriation Structure.
Questions
Contact the Financial Services Manager with questions about funding source codes.