Agentforce Nonprofit Feature Configuration35% of the exam
Grantmaking budgets and application timelines
How Grantmaking's administrative phase is configured: application timelines shared across funding opportunities, budgets with categories and periods, budget templates for applicants, the Budget component's states and placement, actuals and variance, budget allocations, and archiving to avoid data skew.
Configure Grantmaking, including Grantmaking Sites and features that support the Grantmaking lifecycle.
~7 min read · 11 practice questions ·
What the exam expects
- Configure the administrative phase of Agentforce Nonprofit for Grantmaking (formerly Nonprofit Cloud for Grantmaking): application timelines and the funding opportunity fields that point to them and to a budget template.
- Build budgets with categories and periods, and prepare a budget template that applicants fill in on the Grantmaking site.
- Place the Budget component on budget and application pages, pick its state, and know where it doesn't run.
- Explain saving, submitting and the Submitted checkbox, read variance, and track spending with budget allocations.
- Plan for data volume in budget category values.
- Key terms: application timeline (open, close and decision release dates for funding opportunities); budget category and budget period (the rows and columns of a budget); budget template (a budget with categories and periods but no values); budget allocation (a record of spending against a budget or category value); variance (actual minus planned).
Key facts
Timeline dates
- Detail
- Open, Close and Decision Release dates
Timeline reuse
- Detail
- One timeline can serve many funding opportunities
Funding opportunity access
- Detail
- Grantmaking Manager permission set
Before entering values
- Detail
- At least one category and one period
Saving
- Detail
- Values save as you move through the grid
Submitting
- Detail
- A submitted budget can't be edited
Budget template
- Detail
- Categories and periods, no values; Amount and Quantity blank
Mobile
- Detail
- Budget component not available
Per-period actuals lock
- Detail
- Automation on the Budget Period Submitted checkbox
Variance
- Detail
- Actual minus planned; negative is left to spend
Allocation statuses
- Detail
- Allocated, Committed, Finalized
Data skew
- Detail
- Archive budgets not in active use
Sources for this section (7)
- Create Funding Opportunitiestrailhead.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Funding Opportunitieshelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Programs and Budgetstrailhead.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Budget Managementhelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Budget Page Layouthelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Automation Considerationshelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Awards and Disbursementstrailhead.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Why can't a Trailhead Playground be used to practise Grantmaking?
- When would a funding opportunity need an application timeline rather than its own dates?
- Which three funding opportunity fields does Help suggest showing on the site?
- What permissions does a user need to create and edit budgets in Salesforce?
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