About
How this index is built
Scholarships restricted to one county, one city or one high school are the ones with the best odds and the worst distribution. They sit on a counselor's page or a small foundation's website, and the national databases do not carry them. This site collects them and quotes their sponsors directly.
What we will never do
- We never sell student data
- Not to colleges, not to recruiters, not to lead buyers, not to advertisers, and not under a "trusted partners" clause. A profile is used to rank awards for that student and to email them before a deadline passes. There is no second use. This is a constraint on what the product is allowed to be, which is why there is no version of it that pays us more.
- We never charge for the fact that an award exists
- Whether a scholarship exists, who it is for, and where to apply is free and stays free.
- We never send you to another search page
- Every award we publish links to the organisation giving the money. Where we found an award but could not find the sponsor's own page for it, that record stays out of search results rather than handing you a dead end.
Where the records come from
- Sponsors are found, not guessed. Every organisation here was identified from public records and checked before anything it publishes was listed. We do not buy lists, we do not accept paid placement, and no sponsor pays to rank above another.
- Pages are read, then quoted. The sponsor's eligibility wording is kept exactly as published and shown on the award page. It is the audit trail, and it is what you should read if our summary and their text ever disagree. Theirs wins.
- Fields are extracted, and left empty when absent. Amount, deadline, class year, GPA, residency and application route. Anything the sponsor did not publish is left blank rather than filled in with an assumption.
- Thin records are not published to search engines. A county page needs at least three awards and an award page needs enough populated detail to be worth a visit. Everything else is still reachable and still linked, just not indexed. Of 357 awards, 160 currently meet that bar.
What the index holds today
Coverage is uneven by county and grows as more sponsors are read. Tell us your county and your school on the alerts page and we will email you when your area is worth your time.
What we do not know
A blank field on this site means unknown. It never means "no requirement", and we would rather show you an award you turn out to be ineligible for than hide one you could have won.
175 of 357 awards do not publish a deadline we could read, and 150 do not publish an amount. Those awards still appear. Their blank fields are the honest answer.
If we got something wrong
Every listing here was assembled from a sponsor's public page without asking them first. That puts the whole burden of being right on us, so corrections are free, unconditional and fast: tell us what is wrong. Removal is also free, and we do not ask why.
Common questions
- Do you sell student data?
- No, and it is not a policy we could change quietly. We do not sell, rent, broker or share student information with colleges, recruiters, lead buyers or advertising partners. What a student tells us is used to rank awards for them and to email them about deadlines, and for nothing else.
- Where does the data come from?
- Every record is collected from the sponsor's own published page or from a school counselor's published list. Each award page quotes the sponsor's eligibility text unedited and links to the page it came from, so any claim we make can be checked against its source. The index currently holds 357 awards from 168 sponsors.
- What does a blank field mean?
- It means we do not know, never that there is no requirement. 175 of 357 awards do not publish a deadline we could read, and 150 do not publish an amount. Treating a blank as a "no" would filter students out of awards they could have won, and nobody would ever find out it happened.
- Is it free?
- Finding an award, reading its requirements and reaching the sponsor's application page is free and stays free. Whether a scholarship exists, and where to apply for it, is information that belongs to students.
- How much award value is in the index?
- $1,785,410 across the 207 awards that publish an amount. That is a sum of separate awards with separate sponsors and separate applicants, not a pot anyone draws from.