> This is the Markdown of a Backed Help Centre page, https://admin.backed.giving/help/news/2026/2026-11-08-matching-funds-and-suggestions.md. Every page is listed at https://admin.backed.giving/help/llms.txt.

## What's new

- **Matching funds.** An application's `Funds` tab lists its `Matching Funds`: the funds whose
  rules accept it and that have a balance to distribute or are linked to its grant, each with its
  distributable balance. A fund earmarked for another recipient is never listed. See
  [Allocating applications to funds](/administrator/funds/allocations).
- **Allocate to Matching Funds.** One button allocates the application's unallocated approved
  amount across its matching funds for the current year, each up to its distributable balance. It
  needs an `Approved Amount`, and an allocation the application already has from a fund this year is
  added to.
- **Suggest Allocations.** A grant's `Applications` tab can suggest allocations from the funds linked
  to the grant, highest-scored application first, until each fund's balance runs out. Change any
  amount, untick any row, then select `Accept Selected`; nothing is saved before that. See
  [Applications list](/administrator/applications/applications-list).