This is our video showing how schools can use FundEDU to increase their tax credit scholarship dollars.

Ever since my trip to the Partners in Mission conference, I get some version of the same question almost every week now: Which scholarship organization should our school work with? Right now, I don't think anyone can give a complete answer, but that is okay! As it currently stands, we know quite a bit about what a Scholarship Granting Organization will have to do under the new federal tax credit. Beyond that, the Treasury has already started to preview some of the rules it expects to release this fall, with over thirty states making advance elections to participate for 2027. However, what we don’t have are the regulations themselves or the state-approved SGO lists that will tell donors and schools which organizations will actually implement the federal scholarship tax credit. That distinction matters. Don't pick the organization yet. Prepare your questions instead. The temptation right now is to focus on back to school, wait for the Treasury, and the ultimate publication of an official list. Personally, and as this series of articles should indicate, I think waiting for that is a BIG mistake. Given that the Treasury doesn’t anticipate releasing guidance until September, schools will only have a few relatively short months to figure out who will be the best partner to actually serve their families well. That is a useful timeline for implementing a partnership, but not the time to start thinking about what matters in a SGO-partner. So, I encourage all of you to write the questions down now. The first one I would ask is surprisingly simple: When will your scholarship application open relative to our admissions calendar? A scholarship award is most impactful when a family is making the decision where their child will attend school. If your admissions decisions happen in March and your scholarship partner doesn’t issue award notifications until June or July, you may have a problem even if everything else about the organization looks good. Then I would keep going. How will money actually move?