Who it's forStudents
Scholarships and fellowships, and essays in your own words.
For students and anyone else applying on their own. FundFellows turns your résumé into a profile you check, matches you to national scholarships and fellowships and to foundations that give to individuals, and drafts each essay from your own experiences.
The demo includes a fictional high school senior in Dayton, clearly labeled, and replays recorded runs. The foundation filings in it are real. It costs nothing and needs no account.
The scholarships nearby do not advertise.
Students and their families hear about the same few national scholarships, and so does everyone else applying. Small local foundations that give scholarships rarely advertise. Many take applications from only one county or one high school.
Then each one asks for an essay. The details that would make it good (a job, a team, a summer project) are already on a résumé, and the deadline is next week.
What it does, step by step.
Start from your résumé
Paste it or upload it. It becomes a profile that you check before anything uses it.
Scholarships you can apply for
About 80 national scholarships and fellowships, each checked by hand on the sponsor's own page, and private foundations in every state whose IRS 990-PF filings show grants to individuals. It skips funds limited to another county, educational loans, and foundations that mostly fund organizations.
An essay in your voice
Paste the sponsor's essay prompt. The draft is built from your own experiences, in your voice. When a detail is missing, it asks you instead of inventing one.
An essay, on demo data. A missing detail becomes a question for the student. Every deadline on a calendar
When you start an essay, the deadline and the steps before it (asking recommenders, a draft to reread, submitting) go on your calendar.
What it will never do
- Invent an experience, an award, or a number. It asks you.
- Submit an application or send an essay for you.
- Match you to a fund limited to another county, an educational loan, or a foundation that mostly funds organizations.
- Store the names of past individual recipients from the filings.
What it needs from you
- Your résumé
- Pasted or uploaded. It is where your essays start.
- A check of your profile
- Fix anything it read wrong before it is used.
- Each essay prompt
- Paste the sponsor's prompt for each essay you write.
- Your answers
- When a detail is missing, it asks. Answer in your own words.
- The application
- Check each sponsor's rules, then apply the way it asks.
Good to know
- Scholarship deadlines come from each sponsor's page, and some sponsors have not posted this year's date yet. When a date is missing, check the sponsor's page.
- Foundation instructions come from IRS filings that are one to two years old, and many local scholarships are limited to one school or county. Check with the foundation before you apply.
- College, employer, and federal student aid are not included.
Who else it is for
- What it does for architecture and construction firmsFederal, state, and city solicitations in one search, a compliance matrix with the page behind every requirement, go/no-go with reasons, and proposals and SF 330s built from your own records.
- What it does for nonprofitsFederal grants and private foundations in every state, drafts with a source on every claim, and deadlines planned backward.
- What it does for research teamsNIH, NSF, and SBIR notices with reasons, funded projects like yours, and proposals with each funder's AI rule on the checklist.
Try it with a sample student first.
See the scholarships it finds for a senior in Dayton, and an essay drafted from the senior's résumé.
Free during early access, with no card.
The demo includes a fictional high school senior in Dayton, clearly labeled, and replays recorded runs. The foundation filings in it are real. It costs nothing and needs no account.