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Top 25 Scholarship foundations worldwide
RevenueBase identified 3,081 scholarship foundations worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 30,888 professional contacts across them, including 5,103 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.
This list covers scholarship foundations 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 22, 2026. Country and city lists for scholarship foundations 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 scholarship foundations worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 691 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Thrive Scholars empowers high-achieving students from low-income backgrounds by providing the skills, guidance, and professional networks they need to excel in top colleges and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 501 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes ist das älteste und größte Begabtenförderungswerk in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 425 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “UNCF (United Negro College Fund) is the nation’s largest and most effective minority education organization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 400 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1994, by Shiv Nadar, Founder, HCL - a US$13.3 billion leading global technology enterprise, the Foundation is committed to the creation of a more equitable…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 382 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Yayasan Karya Salemba Empat (KSE) didirikan pada tahun 1995 oleh delapan orang yang percaya bahwa masa depan bangsa ditentukan dari pendidikan.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 315 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The mission of Foundation For Excellence (FFE) is to help exceptionally talented but poor students in India become doctors, engineers, and computer scientists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 270 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Corella & Bertram Bonner Foundation is a private philanthropic organization based in Princeton, NJ.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 264 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “High-achieving students from low-income backgrounds often face significant barriers when it comes to accessing the nation’s top colleges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 262 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Há exatos 36 anos, o Sr.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 194 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Onassis Foundation’s mission is and will always be human centric.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 184 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Degrees is the leading, equity-focused scholarship provider and college success nonprofit in California.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Open Dreams is an educational nonprofit that aims to help high achieving students from Cameroon and South Africa access and obtain scholarships to pursue higher education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “More than a scholarship.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 134 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “One Million Degrees empowers low-income, highly motivated community college students to succeed in school, in work, and in life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 122 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We partner with visionary colleges and universities to award multi-year scholarships to the brightest minds across the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ukraine Global Scholars (UGS) is a non-profit organization that has helped 350+ Ukrainian high school students from modest backgrounds receive $94+ million in scholarships to top…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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: scholarship foundations. 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 scholarship foundations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of scholarship foundations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name scholarship foundations. 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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Scholarship foundations worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 22, 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 scholarship foundations, 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 scholarship foundations are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “scholarship foundations”. 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 scholarship foundations), 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 scholarship foundations, 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, 5,103 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 22, 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.
Scholarship foundations by location
13 lists · largest firstEvery Scholarship foundations list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Scholarship foundations based in the United States1,513
- Scholarship foundations based in India119
- Scholarship foundations based in Canada108
- Scholarship foundations based in Germany60
- Scholarship foundations based in Brazil48
- Scholarship foundations based in the United Kingdom42
- Scholarship foundations based in South Africa40
Cities
- Scholarship foundations based in New York, United States55
- Scholarship foundations based in Chicago, United States41
- Scholarship foundations based in Los Angeles, United States37
- Scholarship foundations based in Washington, United States37
- Scholarship foundations based in Atlanta, United States29
- Scholarship foundations based in Houston, United States25
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 scholarship foundations, 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 scholarship foundations are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 3,081 scholarship foundations 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?
Thrive Scholars, headquartered in Los Angeles, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most scholarship foundations?
The United States leads with 1,513 companies, followed by India (119) and Canada (108). Every scholarship foundations list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most scholarship foundations?
New York leads with 55 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (41) and Los Angeles (37).
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 5,103 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 3,081 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 22, 2026.
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About this data
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.