Sponsorship & Grants

Sponsors are managed through /sponsors/ as records carrying contact information, sponsorship tier (Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze) and the entities they sponsor. Each sponsor's contractual commitments live in /sponsors/{id}/contracts with amount, period and terms; renewal and termination are tracked on the contract document. Exposure obligations — logo placements, mentions, tournament naming — are logged via /sponsors/{id}/exposure so the federation can prove delivery against contract.

Grant applications follow a four-state lifecycle on /grants/: draft (freely editable), submitted (awaiting decision), approved (amount fixed, reporting deadline set) or rejected. Once approved, the federation files accountability reports via /grants/{id}/reports describing how the funds were spent — required by most public sports councils. Sponsorship revenue allocation runs through /sponsor-allocations/: an allocation is created with percentage shares per recipient OrgNode (federation, district, club) totalling 100 percent and amounts totalling the sponsor payment.

The allocation moves pending -> allocated -> reconciled, with each transition writing AccountingEntry rows on the corresponding OrgNode books. The reporting layer aggregates SponsorRevenueAllocation entries with status disbursed and GrantApplication entries with status approved or reporting into /financial-reporting/revenue-summary so non-member income shows up in the consolidated revenue picture alongside licence and competition fees. Reconciled allocations also feed the bookkeeping subsystem, writing AccountingEntry rows on the recipient OrgNode books with the correct revenue account and project code so the auditor can trace any sponsor euro from the original contract through to the bank deposit.