S c h olarsponsorgrantswhatever means of money given to a college are actually very finicky . If you don ' t spend all of the money in the predefined section of time I ' m going to say year for ease of writing they may end cutting the grant . So you end up where you have 500 K to spend , but only really need 300400 of it because you have no outstanding issues , you just start shoving it into usefulneedless things to justify the next year ' s 500 K grant . My school was victim to it of annual STEM grants . When they got a big one , they straight up built a new building that was somewhat nice , and then proceeded to blow the rest of the money on overtly expensive touch screen TV ' s that were 10 x the cost and worse than a projector . Disclaimer . Total nobody on the internet , and this is really far outside my wheel house . I am regurgitating information I ' ve heard from staff years back .