The scholarships nobody lists — from the foundations’ own IRS filings
Every private foundation that accepts scholarship applications must tell the IRS who to contact, how to apply, its deadlines, and its restrictions. We read a full year of those filings and published every program with real application details — 3,165 of them, free to browse. Most never appear on Fastweb, Scholarships.com, or anywhere else.
Big scholarship sites list the famous, high-competition awards. Private-foundation scholarships are the opposite: local, specific, and often reachable only by mail — which means far fewer applicants even know they exist. The filing tells you exactly what the foundation wants. Start with your state or the next deadline month.
Scholarships by state
Grouped by where the foundation is based. Many restrict awards to their own county or schools; some are open nationally — each page quotes the filing’s restriction language.
Scholarships by deadline month
More scholarships, from foundations' own portals
A second source, separate from the IRS filings above: 14340 named scholarships published directly on the sponsoring foundation's own application portal.
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