Your scholarship program, fully managed.
You keep your dollars and make the decisions. Scholarship Steward handles everything else for a flat 3.5% fee of scholarship funds per year.
Book a 20-Minute CallRunning a scholarship program is a full-time job.
Document collection, eligibility verification, application review, renewal tracking, disbursement coordination — it never ends. And the person doing it is probably doing ten other things too.
Scholarship Steward handles every part of the process so your team doesn't have to.
Here's what we do
- Collect and verify all applicant documents
- Confirm eligibility against your criteria
- Manage renewals and ongoing eligibility monitoring
- Generate disbursement schedules for your finance team
- Surface a ranked shortlist of recommended recipients (Plus tier)
Here's what you keep
- Full control of your dollars — your finance team authorizes every payment
- Final decision on every recipient — we recommend, you decide
- Your criteria, your values, your mission
Pick your tier.
Both tiers include full program administration. Pricing is a flat percentage of your total scholarship funds awarded annually.
Base
You've chosen your recipients. We handle everything after.
- Document collection and verification
- Eligibility confirmation against your criteria
- Disbursement schedule generation for your finance team
- Renewal management and ongoing eligibility monitoring
- You retain final payment authorization
- You retain all recipient decisions
Plus
We manage the full pipeline, from recruiting to disbursement.
- Document collection and verification
- Eligibility confirmation against your criteria
- Disbursement schedule generation for your finance team
- Renewal management and ongoing eligibility monitoring
- You retain final payment authorization
- You retain all recipient decisions
- Plus adds
- Candidate recruiting and outreach
- Application intake and management
- Bias-free selection (academics, financial need, unmet cost of attendance)
- Ranked recipient shortlist
- You retain final selection approval
Scholar Impact
Give your donors stories that illustrate your impact.
- Annual outreach to all active scholars and recent graduates
- NSC enrollment and persistence verification (NSC membership required — we handle bulk data processing)
- Quantitative summary: enrollment rate, persistence rate, major breakdown
- 3–5 written scholar spotlights per year
- Packaged as a donor-ready annual report
Why Scholarship Steward
Total Scholarships Managed
We built this service because we lived the problem firsthand.
Who we serve
- Community foundations
- Corporate giving programs
- Civic organizations
- Faith communities
Any organization awarding scholarships annually and tired of doing it manually.