March 2025 Enhancements to the Proposal and Award Metrics Dashboard (PAMDash)

The following new features are now available in PAMDash. These enhancements reflect the continued collaboration between Contracts and Grants Accounting (CGA) and UCSF’s research administration community to provide self-service access to extramural funding metrics.

New data filters for the following:

Federal Flow Thru:

  • Find this new filter in the Award Volume, Funding Volume, Funding Amount, Diversity Supplement, Budget Vs Actual Expense, Net Position & Revenue, Data: Award Funding Detail Data By Year, and Data: Award Funding & General Ledger Current Balance dashboard pages.
  • Users can filter to view award metrics and data by the following Federal Flow thru types:
  1. Funded 100%State/PrivateSrce
  2. Funded: Fed & State/Priv.Srce
  3. Funded100%Fed.allocSt/Pr.Agy
  4. Campus fndn endw income
  5. Campus fndn not endw income
  6. FundedPartFedARRASt/Priv.Src
  7. Funded100%FedARRASt/Priv.Src

Action Type:

  • A new filter in the Funding Volume and Funding Amount dashboard pages allows users to view funding metrics by the Award Modification Action Types. The award modification types are the following: Admin Modification, Carry Forward, Continuation, Deobligation, Diversity Supplement, New, Offset, Reduction, Reinstatement, Renewal, Supplement, Transfer In, and Undefined Action Type.

New data elements for the following:

Federal Flow Thru:

  • Federal Flow Thru data column added to the Data: Award Funding Detail Data By Year and Data: Award Funding & General Ledger Current Balance dashboard pages.

Top Level Parent Sponsor:

  • Review the Top Level Parent Sponsor ID, Top Level Parent Sponsor Name, Top Level Parent ID of Prime Sponsor, and Top Level Parent ID of Prime Sponsor Name data columns are added to the Data: Proposal Detail Data By Year, Data: Award Funding Detail Data By Year, Data: Award Funding & General Ledger Current Balance dashboard pages.

Proposal and Award Funding Indirect and Direct Costs:

  • Proposal Indirect Cost, Proposal Direct Cost, Awarded – Direct Cost, Awarded – Indirect Cost, Funded – Direct Cost, and Funded – Indirect Cost data columns added to the Data: Proposal Detail Data By Year dashboard page.
  • IDC Funding Amt and IDC Funding Amt data columns added to the Data: Award Funding Detail Data By Year dashboard page.

How To Get Started:

Log into PAMDash (opens in new window) to experience the new features (MyAccess login and UCSF network/VPN connection required).
Join CGA for an upcoming demonstration session to see the new features, walk through common scenarios for using the dashboard, and get answers to your questions:

PAMDash is managed by the Project and Data Team within CGA. If you have any questions about PAMDash, email [email protected].