Cornerstone Scholarship Fund
Joining Cornerstone Scholarship Fund costs nothing. Your families get access to scholarships funded by a dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit, your donors get a branded page and QR code that names your school as their preferred school, and confirming enrollment takes one click per student.
About 5 minutes · No cost · Nothing to sign today
The offer, in three numbers
Cornerstone Scholarship Fund operates in FL · IA · IN · NC · TX · VA.
Federal scholarship tax credits begin January 1, 2027
Cornerstone Scholarship Fund carries every §25F obligation
Your school stays a school
The dollars come out of federal tax your community already owes. That is the whole trick — and it is why this is the rare program with no loser in it.
Your school
Tuition
Scholarship tuition for awarded students is paid straight to you, and the only work it costs you is the enrollment check only a school can do.
Your donors
Net $0
Up to $1,700 each — $3,400 filing jointly — comes back off their federal tax bill. They are redirecting tax they already owed, not adding to their giving budget.
Your families
A smaller bill
Families at or under three times the median income for your area pay less for the school they already chose.
The only way to lose money here is to leave it unclaimed.
A donor claims the credit against federal tax they owe, so a gift larger than this year's bill is not lost — the unused credit carries forward for up to five years.
Money, eligibility, awards, reporting, and the annual audit all stay with Cornerstone Scholarship Fund. You share a page and confirm who is enrolled.
A short form — contact, website, accreditation, enrollment. No account needed, and no cost.
You · 5 minCornerstone Scholarship Fund vets your school and switches on your branded giving page, your print-ready QR code, and the whole marketing toolkit.
Cornerstone Scholarship Fund · a few daysEvery supporter gets up to $1,700 back on their federal taxes — $3,400 for a couple — and names your school as their preferred school.
Your donorsFamilies who named your school land in your portal. One click per student. You see a name and a grade, never a family's finances.
You · 30 sec eachCornerstone Scholarship Fund pays scholarship tuition for awarded students straight to your school, on a ledger you can see.
Cornerstone Scholarship Fund paysBranded in your colors, hosted by Cornerstone Scholarship Fund, embeddable on your site — plus a print-ready QR code for the lobby, the car line, and the bulletin.
Every gift that names your school builds the pool Cornerstone Scholarship Fund's committee sees next to your students who applied. Tuition is paid straight to your school, on a ledger you can see.
The only recurring job you have. Confirm a student is enrolled and you are done — income verification, award decisions, and payments are not yours.
State listing, segregated accounts, the 90/10 split, donor receipts, the annual audit — all Cornerstone Scholarship Fund's obligations under §25F. You stay a school.
Schools rarely miss this money because their families do not qualify. They miss it because nobody told the community it exists. So the outreach tools ship inside your portal, at no extra cost.
Parents, grandparents, alumni, local businesses. Import your roster straight from a spreadsheet.
A trackable code per placement, so you can see which poster actually brought people in.
Drafted one at a time in your school's voice, from what you know about each family. You approve every one.
Social posts, letters home, bulletin inserts, call scripts, printables — checked for the required legal language.
Where supporters came from, what your outreach did, and how close you are to your goal.
Your school
Share your page
Print the QR poster, drop the drafted letter into the Friday folder, email your alumni list. One afternoon to set up.
Confirm who's enrolled
One click per student, whenever a family who named you applies. Thirty seconds each.
Cornerstone Scholarship Fund
One form, about five minutes, no account required. Nothing is owed unless and until you go live.
What happens after you apply
Cornerstone Scholarship Fund reviews your school — accreditation, website, contact — usually within a few business days.
On approval you get an email with your live page, your QR code, and an invitation to the partner portal.
Share your page; families apply and name your school; you confirm enrollment from the portal.
Cornerstone Scholarship Fund awards scholarships on need and pays the tuition straight to your school.
Every award stays need-based.
A donor's preference for your school guides Cornerstone Scholarship Fund's awards but cannot bind them — federal law keeps every scholarship need-based and prohibits earmarking a gift to a school or a student.Already a partner? Sign in robert+cornerstone-info@sgoguide.com
No — and most single schools should not. Federal law bars donors from earmarking gifts and requires awards to reach ten or more students who do not all attend the same school, so a school cannot run a fund for its own families alone. Joining one that already exists takes days and costs nothing.
Nothing up front and nothing ongoing. There is no fee to join and no subscription — what your school puts in is the time to share your page and confirm enrollment, and what it gets back is tuition for the families who are awarded.
Two things: share your page, and confirm enrollment for families who name your school. Confirmation is one click per student. Income checks, award decisions, payments, receipts, and audits stay with the fund.
Nothing. Your portal shows the student's name, grade, and guardian name so you can confirm enrollment. Income, documents, and eligibility decisions are visible only to Cornerstone Scholarship Fund's reviewers.
They can name your school as their preferred school, and Cornerstone Scholarship Fund's committee sees that pool of dollars next to your students who applied. But federal law prohibits earmarking — a preference guides awards; it never binds them.
Genuinely small. A donor claims the credit against federal tax they owe, so if their bill is smaller than their gift, the balance lands on a later return instead — it carries forward up to five years rather than being lost. Beyond that, the program runs only in states that have opted in, and it begins January 1, 2027.
Cornerstone Scholarship Fund
$0 to start, a branded page your community can give through, and the compliance stays where it belongs.