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You can print the same budget in a layout that is not your own — a funder's account structure.
Funders and broadcasters usually want the budget in **their** account structure, not yours. Rebuilding the budget to match is the wrong answer — you would then have two budgets to keep in step.
Instead you build an **alternate budget grid**: a second structure whose accounts point at yours. The budget stays single; only the presentation changes.
**Budget Grids ▸ New Budget Grid**, then map each of the funder's accounts to the accounts of yours that feed it. **Copy Active Grid** starts from your own structure if the funder's is a variation of it rather than a different scheme.
The mapping is the work, and it is worth doing carefully **once** — see [build an alternate budget grid](/kb/article/build-an-alternate-budget-grid) for how the matching behaves and what happens to accounts you have not mapped.
Open **Print Budget** and change **Grid** from *Standard* to your grid. The output carries the funder's numbering and descriptions, with your figures underneath; everything else in the dialog behaves as it does for a normal printout — see [print a budget](/kb/article/print-a-budget).
**The budget grid is not complete and cannot be printed. Make sure to match all accounts.**
An alternate grid only prints once **every** account of the active budget is matched into it. Until then the mapping is partial, so the printout would silently omit money — the alert is the product refusing to produce a document that does not add up to the budget.
The fix is the mapping, not the printing: go back to the grid and match what is left. Nothing about your *own* budget is blocked meanwhile — the standard printout is unaffected.
A grid belongs to the budget it was built in. To reuse it on the next production, save that budget as a template — the structure and the mapping travel with it, and the effort is spent once for every production that follows rather than for this one.
**Why not just renumber.** You could renumber your own accounts to match the funder. Then the next funder asks for a different scheme, and your cost control — which matches accounts by number — no longer lines up with your accounting. The alternate grid exists so the budget can answer to more than one structure without becoming loyal to any of them.
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