Your school’s own giving link. An SGO’s compliance behind it.

Not yet. The partner-school program is coming soon: federal tax-credit scholarships begin January 1, 2027, and the SGO that partner schools will join is being prepared. What is live today is the early-access list — add your school and we will come back to you first, with the partner agreement, as the program opens. It costs nothing and commits you to nothing. If you would rather talk it through first, reach out through the contact form.

No. Partner schools plug into a scholarship granting organization that already exists and is certified under Section 25F. You keep being a school; the SGO carries the compliance, the money, and the reporting. Forming your own is a real option too — it buys you control over scholarship criteria and the administrative share of each gift, at the cost of months of setup, a board, and an annual audit. If you want that control without staffing the operation, ClearPath Managed forms and runs the SGO for you while your board keeps the policy and your committee keeps the award decisions. All three models are compared side by side at /start-or-join-an-sgo.

Nothing. There is no setup fee, no subscription, and no minimum. The SGO carries the cost of running the program — certification, segregated accounts, receipts, state reporting, and the annual audit — out of the operating allowance Section 25F permits, never from the 90% of contributions that must reach scholarships. Your giving link, page, QR code, and school portal come with joining.

Yes, in the same checkout. When your school connects its own account and names a fund (an Annual Fund, say), a gift on your link is split: the portion that earns the donor’s federal credit goes to the SGO with your school named as preferred, and anything above the donor’s credit cap goes straight to your school’s own 501(c)(3) as an ordinary tax-deductible gift under Section 170. The donor enters a card once, sees two charges, and gets two receipts — one from the SGO and one from your school. Until your fund is connected, the whole gift goes to the SGO, and a donor can choose that at any time.

Donors can name your school as their preferred school, and the SGO’s committee sees those preferred dollars next to the students from your school who applied. But federal law (Section 25F) prohibits earmarking a scholarship gift to a school or student — the SGO keeps full discretion and awards on need and eligibility. A preference guides awards; it never binds them. The direct portion of a split gift is different: it is your school’s own money, in your own account.

Share your link and QR code with your community, and confirm enrollment for the families who name your school on their scholarship application — a one-click task in a simple school portal. Income verification, award decisions, disbursements, receipts, and audits stay with the SGO.

Through the SGO’s bilingual application portal. Your school appears in the school picker (and your apply link pre-selects it); when a family names you, their application shows up in your portal for enrollment confirmation, and the SGO handles the rest.

Yes. Under the federal scholarship tax credit (Section 25F, effective January 1, 2027), gifts to a certified SGO earn a dollar-for-dollar federal income-tax credit of up to $1,700 per taxpayer per year ($1,700 each for a married couple filing jointly), in states that have opted in.