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Scholarship Grants are offered to individuals to pay for educational opportunities. Any individual can apply for scholarship grants if they meet the eligibility requirements. The best way to learn about which foundations give scholarship grants is to go to your local library and conduct research. Local libraries have many foundation directories and resources available to use at no charge. Many libraries have access to the Foundation Directory Online so that you can do a search on Scholarship Grants. The Foundation Directory Online allows you to search for Grants or for Foundations. It is a good idea to use both search engines. There are at least 1,039 foundations in the United States that give scholarship grants to individuals and over 2,000 foundations that give to scholarship funds. According to the Foundation Directory Online, the top seven foundations that give the most in scholarship grants to individuals are:
- The Starr Foundation - $188,856,235
- Walton Family Foundation, Inc. - $106,902,909
- Wal-Mart Foundation - $100,998,323
- Open Society Institute- $80,033,357
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation - $73,434,915
- The San Francisco Foundation - $65,295,022
- Verizon Foundation - $61,294,961
Other big scholarship grantors to individuals include the Marin Community Foundation, MBNA Foundation, Peninsula Community Foundation, The Sidney Kimmel Foundation, and the Saint Paul Foundation.
When conducting a search for scholarship grants, also search for grants awarded for student aid. Many colleges and universities receive grants to provide student aid to individuals. For example, The Duke Endowment consistently provides funding to Duke University for student aid.
Last year, The Starr Foundation gave $5,000,000 to Temple University in Pennsylvania for student aid and the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region gave $5,000,000 to the Posse Foundation in New York.
