> This is the Markdown of a Backed Help Centre page, https://admin.backed.giving/help/news/2026/2026-11-09-fund-rules-checked-on-recommendation-accept.md. Every page is listed at https://admin.backed.giving/help/llms.txt.

## What's new

- **Grant recommendations follow the fund's rules.** When you select `Accept` on a `Pending`
  recommendation, the fund's `Rules and Conditions` are checked against the recipient before any
  payment is made: its Registration Type, the Funding Category of the recommended application, any
  earmarked recipients, and the `Maximum per Recipient` less what the recipient already holds from
  the fund's allocations. If a rule doesn't allow it, nothing is paid, the recommendation stays
  `Pending` and you see the rule's reason, for example "This Fund is restricted to other
  Registration Types, so it can't fund this Applicant." Change the rules or decline the
  recommendation. A fund with no rules accepts as before. See
  [A fund's record and its child funds](/administrator/funds/fund-record).