ClearPath Chapters
Start a scholarship fund under your own name
For a parish, a service club, a parent group or a town that wants its own scholarship fund without forming an SGO. Your group runs a chapter of an SGO we operate: your name, your schools, your page and your dashboard. The SGO already holds the IRS recognition, the state listings and the board, so a chapter can start any month — and donors still get the full federal scholarship tax credit.
Chapter page
Your group’s scholarship fund
A chapter of the SGO · gifts receipted by the SGO
Yours
The SGO’s
A community that wants a scholarship fund is usually told to start an SGO. Most should not have to.
Formation is months of paperwork
A new SGO needs IRS recognition, a listing in every state it serves, and a board — before the first gift earns anyone a credit.
Then it never stops
The 90/10 test, receipts, income verification, arm’s-length awards, state reports and an annual audit are permanent. A volunteer group takes all of it on.
The group was the point, not the entity
What a parish or a parent group actually has is people who trust it and schools it cares about. None of that needs a second nonprofit.
A chapter keeps the name and the community. The SGO underneath keeps the obligations.
Why it matters
Start any month
No IRS filing, no state application, no board to seat. The SGO your chapter belongs to already has all three, so your group can begin whenever it is ready.
Your name, your schools, your page, your dashboard
A chapter page under your group’s name, the schools your group cares about, and a dashboard of the gifts that came through you. Each school joins by accepting, and the SGO vets it first.
Donors still get the full credit
Gifts go to an established SGO, which issues every receipt. Donors get the federal scholarship tax credit — up to $1,700 a year — exactly as if they had given to the SGO directly.
Your chapter gets credit — a gift goes to no one school
Federal law forbids earmarking, so a donor may name a preferred school but the SGO’s committee decides every award on need. Your dashboard shows what your chapter brought in; it is a report, not a balance.
What is yours, and what stays with the SGO
A chapter is a branded part of an SGO, not an organization of its own. That line is what lets you start quickly: everything that makes an SGO hard sits on the SGO’s side of it.
Your chapter page
YoursYour group’s name, story and photos, with the SGO’s legal name and disclosure on it, because the gift is made to the SGO.
Your member schools
YoursInvite the schools your group cares about, or accept a school that asks. Either side starts it, the other accepts. A school the SGO has not vetted is vetted first.
A page for each school
Yours and the school’sEvery member school gets a co-branded page within your chapter, and the school edits its own.
Your dashboard
YoursThe gifts that came through your chapter, by school and over time. Chapter admins see their own chapter only, and never touch money, awards or applications.
Money, receipts and awards
The SGO’sDonors give to the SGO, which receipts every gift and pays every scholarship. Its independent committee decides awards on need. Nothing is paid to a chapter’s organizers — not a fee, not a share.
Listings, board, 90/10 and audit
The SGO’sIRS recognition, every state listing, the board, the 90/10 test and the annual audit stay with the SGO, where they already are.
Any group with schools it cares about and people who trust it
One feature with a group type, not a product per audience. These are the kinds of group a chapter is built for — not a list of customers.
Faith communities
A parish, a diocese’s schools, a city’s churches
School networks
Classical schools, Montessori schools, a county’s schools
Service clubs
Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions
Local business groups
A chamber of commerce, a downtown association, a Hispanic chamber
Employers
A company chapter, tied to payroll giving
Alumni associations
A school’s graduates, giving forward
Parent groups
PTAs, PTOs, booster clubs
Community-wide
A city or county chapter, or a military-family chapter near a base
Everything Chapters covers
ClearPath Chapters is a complete solution — not a module you configure yourself or a feature set you have to maintain. Every item below is included and actively managed.
A chapter is part of an SGO we operate — never an SGO of its own. Donors give to the SGO, its committee decides every award on need, and no gift is directed to a particular school or student.
The Education Freedom Tax Credit (EFTC), the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit (FSTC), the Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA), and Section 25F are four names for the same federal program — a dollar-for-dollar tax credit of up to $1,700 per year for donations to scholarship granting organizations, effective January 1, 2027.
- A chapter page under your group’s name, with the SGO’s legal name and disclosure
- Your own list of member schools, each joined by the school’s acceptance
- A co-branded page for each member school, which the school edits
- Links and QR codes for your chapter and each of its schools
- Chapter admin logins, separate from the SGO’s staff
- A dashboard of the gifts that came through your chapter
- Pledges, so supporters can commit before the credit begins
- Every receipt, award, listing, report and audit carried by the SGO
ClearPath Chapters connects to the rest of ClearPath
Talk it through before you decide.
Tell us about your organization and we’ll set up a consultation on your formation path, your state, and the timeline. It costs nothing and there is nothing to sign — and if it’s useful, we’ll walk through the platform on the same call.
What happens next
We read your submission and respond within one business day
A working session, typically 45–60 minutes — your situation, not a sales pitch
Which of the three paths fits, what your state requires, and what the timeline is
You leave with a clear recommendation — including when the answer is to join an SGO rather than form one, or to wait