For Parents
Help Your Child Find Scholarships
The average family misses $18,000+ in scholarship money. With a free guardian account, you can search on your student's behalf, recommend scholarships straight to their list, and follow their progress — while they stay in control of their own account.
Why scholarships matter
College costs are rising. Scholarships don't need to be repaid — every dollar awarded is a dollar your family doesn't borrow.
How FundMyFuture works
Five simple steps from profile to application.
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Build a profile
Your student answers a few quick questions — grade, state, interests, GPA. Takes under two minutes.
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Get matched scholarships
FundMyFuture surfaces scholarships that fit your student's exact profile — no irrelevant results to wade through.
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Track deadlines
Every scholarship has a deadline. The tracker keeps everything in one place so nothing slips.
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Prepare essays
The Writing tab stores drafts. Students can reuse and adapt strong responses across applications.
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Apply with confidence
Students apply directly on the scholarship sponsor's site. FundMyFuture keeps the record of what they submitted.
Guardian accounts
Your own seat at the table
A free guardian account links to your student's. You do the finding, they do the applying — and nothing falls through the cracks between you.
Link to your student
Either of you can send the invite by email; the other approves. Link multiple students, and unlink any time — from either side.
Search through their profile
Your search runs on your student's real profile — grade, GPA, state, target schools, interests — so you see exactly the matches they see.
Recommend with a note
Tap Recommend on any scholarship to pin it to the top of your student's list with your note attached — and see when they've viewed or saved it.
Follow their progress
A read-only view of their favorites, application tracker, deadlines, and college plan — what's saved, in progress, applied, and won.
Suggest college plans
You often know where your student is headed. Suggest target schools and states; one tap from them adds it to their profile.
Pay for their membership
Gift the full membership from your Family page — it credits your student's account directly.
Guidance without surveillance: guardians never see essays, personal statements, or private application notes — and nothing changes on your student's account without their approval.
How you can help
You don't need to write the essays — your encouragement and support make the biggest difference.
Start in 9th or 10th grade
The earlier your student builds a profile, the more scholarships they can track across all four high school years.
Help with applications
Review essays, check deadlines together, and celebrate each submitted application — win or not.
Complete the FAFSA early
Many scholarships check FAFSA. File it as soon as it opens (October 1st each year) to maximize eligibility.
Celebrate every step
Scholarship applications are a skill. Each submission builds confidence and writing ability, regardless of the outcome.
Included, not an add-on
ACT and SAT practice is included
A higher test score is often worth more than any single scholarship application — most automatic merit awards are handed out against a score cutoff. Test prep normally costs hundreds of dollars on top of everything else. Here both exams come with the membership, so your student can try each and commit to whichever suits them.
40 full-length ACT tests
Ten each for English, Math, Reading and Science — 1,710 questions, written to the Enhanced ACT (2026) format with real timing and the real question mix.
7 full Digital SAT tests
Complete adaptive tests in the 2026 Bluebook format, scored 400–1600 — including the typed-answer Math questions and the real two-module routing, where Module 1 decides how hard Module 2 gets. Each can also be sat one section at a time, scored 200–800.
No repeated questions
Every question your student sees is recorded and left out of their next test, so a retake is genuinely new material rather than the same test shuffled.
Scores that point somewhere
ACT tests score on the 1–36 scale, SAT on 400–1600, both broken down by reporting category — so you can see whether it is punctuation or geometry costing the points.
Review beside the passage
Missed questions come back next to the passage they came from, with an explanation — so the review is a lesson, not just a list of wrong answers.
Helps you pick an exam
Sitting one of each under real timing tells you more than any comparison chart. The ACT rewards speed and has a Science section; the digital SAT is shorter and adapts to your student as they go.
The first test in every section is free — your student can try one before you pay for anything.
College-planning timeline
A grade-by-grade guide to keep your student on track.
9th Grade
- ✓Create FundMyFuture profile
- ✓Start tracking local/community scholarships
- ✓Join clubs and activities (documents eligibility)
10th Grade
- ✓Apply to early-start scholarships
- ✓Strengthen GPA and extracurriculars
- ✓Begin essay practice
11th Grade
- ✓Ramp up applications — major deadlines cluster here
- ✓Take SAT/ACT if applicable
- ✓Research your state grant program — every state runs one
12th Grade
- ✓Apply to remaining scholarships by December–March
- ✓Complete FAFSA on October 1st
- ✓Confirm awards before enrollment deadline
Parent FAQ
- Is FundMyFuture free?
- Yes. Students can browse and track scholarships at no cost. A paid plan unlocks the full matching database and essay tools.
- Is my child's data safe?
- Your child's data is used only for scholarship matching — never sold or shared. See our Privacy Policy for full details.
- Do you guarantee scholarship awards?
- No — no platform can. FundMyFuture maximizes the opportunities your student knows about and applies to, which increases their chances.
- Does FundMyFuture cover our state?
- The database spans 50 states plus national scholarships open to students anywhere. Coverage runs deepest where we have done the most curation work, and we're expanding — sign up to be notified as we add more in your area.
- Can I see what my child is applying to?
- Yes — link a free guardian account to your student's. You get a read-only view of their favorites, application tracker, and college plan, and you can recommend scholarships straight to their list. Your student approves the link, stays in control of their own account, and their essays and private notes are never visible to you.
- Can I pay for my student's membership?
- Yes. A guardian can gift the full membership from their Family page — it credits the student's account directly, and either of you can manage it from then on.
- Do we need to buy separate ACT or SAT prep?
- Not for practice tests — both exams are included. On the ACT side your student can sit a complete timed mock — every section back to back, with the real break after Math and a composite score at the end — or work one section at a time. That bank holds 40 full-length section tests, ten each for English, Math, Reading and Science, enough for ten complete mocks: 1,710 questions in the Enhanced ACT (2026) format, scored 1–36. On the SAT side there are 7 full adaptive tests in the 2026 Bluebook format, scored 400–1600, with the real two-module routing where Module 1 performance decides how hard Module 2 gets, and the typed-answer Math questions graded by the real entry rules — or your student can sit just Reading & Writing, or just Math, scored 200–800. Neither exam ever repeats a question. The first test is free, so they can try one before you pay.
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