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Community Foundation Tampa Bay Scholarships
Community Foundation Tampa Bay offers many scholarships through one yearly common application, mostly for Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Hernando and Citrus county students. It also links to an open search covering those counties plus Polk, Manatee and Sarasota, with filters, full eligibility, dated deadlines and direct links to each sponsor.
Best for: Tampa Bay area high school seniors and college students who want a filterable list of local awards with current deadlines.
Limitation: The foundation's own awards are not listed individually, and the linked search mixes in many awards from other providers.
Regional community foundation for Florida. Pair with your state aid office. Bring transcript, residency, and essay materials before the portal opens.
Our rating
4.3out of 5
What our research found
Matching Power (5.0 / 5)
- Filters cover county, need, grades, field, school and college.
- Combined filters cut the list with result counts.
- Every award lists full eligibility.
Scholarship Quality (4.5 / 5)
- Deadlines show full current dates.
- Each award links to its sponsor.
- Amounts shown or marked as varying.
Ease of Use (3.5 / 5)
- Clear searches by student type.
- Many links are small to tap on a phone.
- Sponsor links open in new tabs.
Privacy & Marketing (3.0 / 5)
- Policy is written for donors, not students.
- A Google ad tag loads before any cookie choice.
- Cookies can be declined.
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 A 1 means most are out of date, incomplete or do not lead to the sponsor, and in the middle you will need to double check a fair share.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.