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Top 10 Student scholarship organizations based in South Africa

RevenueBase identified 37 student scholarship organizations headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 440 professional contacts across them, including 108 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.

This list covers student scholarship organizations headquartered in South Africa, 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.

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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 22, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
37Companies
440Contacts tracked
108Verified emails
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The 10 largest student scholarship organizations based in South Africa

Ranked by team size
Top 10 of 37 student scholarship organizations based in South Africa, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 22, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to student scholarship organizations: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026201-500139 contacts →

Partial 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 22, 2026
2Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5079 contacts →

Partial evidence

Student Sponsorship Programme (SSP) is a non-profit trust based in Johannesburg, South Africa that enables academically distinguished, economically disadvantaged students to excel…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
3Partial evidenceIllovo, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5029 contacts →

Partial evidence

“ISFAP is a not-for-profit Foundation formed with the aim of providing a sustainable financial aid and student support programme for needing students, particularly from the missing…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
4Partial evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5027 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Manati Alternate Student Funding ("MANATI") is a distinguished student funding organisation dedicated to fostering enhanced access, accomplishment, and affordability in the realm…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
5Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-1011 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“4 in 10 South African learners never finish high school.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
6Partial evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-107 contacts →

Partial evidence

“A non-profit scholarship organisation committed to enabling greater access to education and developing young South African scholars.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
7Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-104 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Celebrating 30 years of educational impact.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
8Indirect evidenceWynberg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-104 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“INTRODUCTION: There are not many organisations that can lay claim to the fact that they've been in operation for a half century or more.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
9Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-503 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Bosele is the Tswana word for “dawn”.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
10Partial evidenceDurban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-101 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The SHAZH Foundation invests in and supports students in achieving academic excellence by removing socioeconomic obstacles and promoting leadership development opportunities.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026

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Student scholarship organizations based in South Africa at a glance

As of Sep 22, 2026
24.5%Verified-email coverage
11.9Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
32.4%Largest-city concentration · Johannesburg
Sep 22, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
29
11-50
6
201-500
1
5,001-10,000
1

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 37 companies.

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 student 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.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “student 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 student 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 student scholarship organizations, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
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, 108 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.

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 student 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 student scholarship organizations are there based in South Africa?

RevenueBase identified 37 student scholarship organizations headquartered in South Africa 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?

The National Student Financial AID Scheme, headquartered in Cape Town, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most student scholarship organizations?

Johannesburg leads with 12 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (9) and Durban (2).

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 108 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 37 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.