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Ventura County Community Foundation
Ventura County Community Foundation runs a catalog of named funds for high school seniors and college students in the Ventura County area. Students can browse without signing in. Applying requires an account on the same site. Listings include amounts, and a shared winter deadline is posted. Some funds are limited to a city or high school, not the whole county.
Best for: Ventura County area high school seniors and college students who can browse named foundation funds in one portal.
Limitation: Applying requires an account, and some funds are limited to a city or high school rather than the whole county.
Our rating
3.9out of 5
What our research found
Matching Power (3.0 / 5)
- On-page controls help narrow the named fund list.
- Listings include amounts and a shared winter deadline.
- A keyword search was not seen on the captured list.
Scholarship Quality (5.0 / 5)
- Awards are listed on the foundation's own catalog.
- Listings showed current deadlines and complete fields.
- Amounts appear on the opportunity pages.
Ease of Use (4.0 / 5)
- Pages open without a blocking pop-up.
- The list and apply path stay easy to reach.
- Pages fit a phone screen without sideways scrolling.
Privacy & Marketing (4.0 / 5)
- The policy says customer lists are not sold, rented or leased.
- It covers name, email, address, phone and cookies.
- The foundation may contact users for partners.
- The catalog pages show no ad units.
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 A 1 means most are out of date, incomplete or do not lead to the sponsor, and in the middle you will need to double check a fair share.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