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Top 25 Need based scholarship organizations worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,041 need based scholarship organizations worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 10,803 professional contacts across them, including 2,194 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.
This list covers need based scholarship organizations worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for need based scholarship organizations follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest need based scholarship organizations worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 461 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O Educa Mais Brasil trabalha há mais de 20 anos oferecendo bolsas de estudo a milhares de pessoas que desejam ter acesso à Educação de qualidade.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 339 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With more than $6 billion distributed to more than 3.5 million students since our founding, Scholarship America is the nation's largest scholarship administrator.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 327 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Step Up For Students empowers parents to pursue and engage in the most appropriate learning options for their children, with an emphasis on families who lack the information and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Buddy4Study, India’s leading AI and tech-enabled educational funding platform, is dedicated to simplifying access to education financing for deserving students across the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 196 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “College Now (formerly Cleveland Scholarship Programs) paves the way for middle and high school students and adult learners to prepare for, finance, and graduate from postsecondary…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We prepare our students with the academic, financial, social and emotional support they need to be successful in life-beginning in middle school and continuing through high…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 184 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The "I Have A Dream" Foundation is working to ensure that all children have the opportunity to pursue higher education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cop1 est une association apartisane et indépendante motivée par un but simple : porter assistance à tout étudiant dans le besoin avec, en premier lieu, l'organisation de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Degrees is the leading, equity-focused scholarship provider and college success nonprofit in California.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Washington State Opportunity Scholarship (WSOS) is a unique, public-private partnership that provides low- and middle-income students with financial assistance, career…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Goal: To support students who demonstrate exceptional educational promise by offering them opportunities in education that they would otherwise not have due to finances.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 141 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) is a public entity report to the Department of Higher Education and Training.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “More than a scholarship.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 136 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is dedicated to advancing the education of exceptionally promising students who have financial need.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “I Know I Can serves more than students from Columbus City Schools, Reynoldsburg City Schools, South-Western City School District and Whitehall City Schools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ashinaga is a Japanese non-governmental organization (NGO) that provides support and education for orphaned students around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Chatfield Edge is a nonprofit offering support to first-generation and non-traditional students as they gain success in life through education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Denver Scholarship Foundation empowers DPS students to achieve their post-secondary education goals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1995 by a group of recent college graduates, Education First provides need-based college scholarships to high school seniors wishing to earn a degree.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Jackie Robinson Foundation has advanced the ideals of equity and opportunity by leveling the playing field in higher education and the workplace for 47 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vision: Empowering Student Community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Brazos Higher Education, we’re more than just a student loan company, we’re a team dedicated to making higher education accessible and affordable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nosso propósito é ser a Ponte para a ascensão social em uma geração, por meio da educação de qualidade, para jovens em vulnerabilidade social.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SR Education Group rebranded to Optimal in January 2020.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: need based scholarship organizations. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names need based scholarship organizations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of need based scholarship organizations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name need based scholarship organizations. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Need based scholarship organizations worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among need based scholarship organizations, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for need based scholarship organizations are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “need based scholarship organizations”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names need based scholarship organizations), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among need based scholarship organizations, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,194 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Need based scholarship organizations by location
1 lists · largest firstEvery Need based scholarship organizations list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names need based scholarship organizations, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many need based scholarship organizations are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,041 need based scholarship organizations worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Educa Mais Brasil, headquartered in Salvador, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most need based scholarship organizations?
The United States leads with 562 companies. Every need based scholarship organizations list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most need based scholarship organizations?
New York leads with 27 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (16) and Washington (14).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,194 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,041 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.