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Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes
Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes publishes high school and adult scholarship PDFs for students in Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben and Yates counties. Tables include names, eligibility and often amounts, grouped by school or county. Applications are due February 1, through a general application that needs a portal login. You can read the public list without an account.
Best for: Students in Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben or Yates County who can use the foundation PDFs and one general portal application.
Limitation: Applying requires a portal login after you read the public list, and not every table row lists an amount.
Our rating
3.5out of 5
What our research found
Matching Power (2.5 / 5)
- The public page groups awards by school and county.
- Need, grades, major and college are not filters.
- The master PDF remains a long table to read.
Scholarship Quality (4.5 / 5)
- The PDFs are published by the foundation for the current school year.
- A single early February due date is stated for applications.
- Names and eligibility are listed; amounts are often present.
- Applying still requires the general application portal login.
Ease of Use (4.0 / 5)
- Pages open without a blocking pop-up.
- The list and apply path stay easy to reach.
- Some links are small to tap on a phone.
Privacy & Marketing (3.5 / 5)
- The policy states a commitment to confidentiality and describes safeguards.
- It says personal information is not collected during tracking.
- Pages load Google tools, with no ad units shown.
How we rate
Matching Power
How well it helps you find the scholarships it lists, by filtering on location, need, merit, major, college and high school.
A 5 means you can narrow the list by where you live, need, merit, major, college or high school, and a big site brings the best fits to the top. A 1 means little or no way to narrow, and in the middle some filters work but many results still do not fit.
Scholarship Quality
How complete, current and traceable its scholarship listings are.
A 5 means nearly every listing is current, links to the real sponsor and gives enough detail to act on. A 1 means most are out of date, incomplete or do not lead to the sponsor, and in the middle you will need to double check a fair share.
Ease of Use
How easily you can understand the controls and reach actionable scholarship information.
A 5 means clear controls and a quick path from the list to a scholarship and its sponsor, including on a phone. A 1 means walls, confusing steps or a broken phone view keep getting in the way, and the middle is workable with some tradeoffs.
Privacy & Marketing
What data it asks for, how much advertising or sign-up pressure gets in the way, and how much control you have.
A 5 means the site asks only for what it needs, says why, keeps ads and partner offers out of the way and leaves you in control. A 1 means heavy data requests, sign-up pressure, loan offers or sweepstakes get in the way, and the middle has some of that pressure but it stays manageable.
Our ratings are our opinion of each site, not an endorsement or a prediction that you'll win.
Updated November 2026