“…However, other researchers have questioned the validity of grant response propositions of conventional theory because of the assumption of grant recipients as individual decision makers [21]. In practice, recipients tend to be groups of individuals whose response to grants is influenced by determinants of collective decision making such as administrative requirements, participant institutions in decision making [17,18,21], alignment with recipients' preferences, and political interests [4,20,22,23]. Other grant response determinants include grant structure [18], economic conditions [18,24], and realistic budgets and knowledge of the true cost of target intervention [19].…”