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Grand Rapids Community Foundation Scholarships
The Grand Rapids Community Foundation offers 100-999 scholarships for students in the Grand Rapids and Kent County area through one general application that opens each winter. An additional scholarships page lists a few named programs with their own rules. The site does not list the general application's individual awards or amounts.
Best for: Grand Rapids area students who want to reach many local scholarships through one general application each winter.
Limitation: The site lists no individual awards or amounts for the general application, so fit is unclear before applying.
Regional community foundation for Michigan. Pair with your state aid office. Bring transcript, residency, and essay materials before the portal opens.
Our rating
2.2out of 5
What our research found
Matching Power (1.5 / 5)
- A page lists a few named programs with rules.
- The general application covers most awards unseen.
- Only a site-wide search, no filters.
Scholarship Quality (2.0 / 5)
- Dates repeat each year with no year given.
- Named programs say closed until December.
- No award amounts are listed.
Ease of Use (3.5 / 5)
- Many links and buttons are small to tap on phones.
- Award details sit on separate application pages.
- Pages fit phone screens without sideways scrolling.
Privacy & Marketing (2.5 / 5)
- Scholarship pages show no ads or sweepstakes.
- Pages load Google ad and Hotjar session tools.
- The policy covers donor lists, not applicant data.
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 A 1 means most are out of date, incomplete or do not lead to the sponsor, and in the middle you will need to double check a fair share.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.