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Forty-one funds.
One application.
Every scholarship here was started by someone in Wren Valley — a family, a graduating class, a business, a teacher. One form puts a senior in front of every fund they qualify for.
Opens 1 Feb 2027 The 2027 application window opens 1 February and closes 15 March at 5 p.m. See every fund →
Wren Valley High School, where every award is read in May. The foundation has no building of its own.
opening
Every fund, with who can apply and when → · The register by the year each was started →
in figures
Figures are sample data. Totals on this site are added up from the award list, never typed in. The 2026 recipients →
seniors
One form, every fund.
- 01Between 1 February and 15 March, fill in the one application on the foundation’s portal. It asks once for grades, plans and a short essay.
- 02The foundation matches your application to every fund whose criteria you meet. You do not apply fund by fund.
- 03Volunteer reviewers score applications without seeing names. Each reviewer signs a conflict-of-interest statement first.
- 04Awards are read at commencement on 22 May and paid to the school in August.
The award letter, in the mail before commencement.
fund
A name on the register, for as long as the foundation exists.
- Endowed
- From $10,000. Invested with the foundation’s endowment; awards paid from the draw each year, in perpetuity.
- Given each year
- From $1,000 a year. Awarded in full the following spring.
- You choose
- The name and who it is for. The board approves criteria so every fund selects fairly.
Where the money goes, in one minute
Sample video. Wren Valley is invented, so it has no footage of its own: the clips are free stock (Pexels), no recipient is shown and no face appears, and the narration is a synthetic voice. For a real organization connectNPO uses only the photos and clips its staff send.
One application, forty-one funds, and the year read out at commencement — the same figures published on this site and in the sample Form 990: 94 seniors, $312,500, awards paid of $298,000.
Made by connectNPO, who built this site. Up to five short videos a year are part of the plan.
demo shows
Wren Valley is invented. The features are real and working, and each one is an example of what connectNPO builds for nonprofits. The youth-arts demo → · The community-theatre demo → · The youth-center demo → · The youth-soccer demo → · The counseling demo → · The animal-rescue demo → · The food-pantry demo → · The free-clinic demo → · The resource-directory demo → · The house-museum demo → · The domestic-violence-services demo → · The fair-wage demo → · The soil-cleanup demo → · The land-trust demo →
Windows that open and close themselves
Each fund carries its dates; the status, the Apply button and this page follow them.
See the funds →Funds staff edit themselves
Name, donor line, amount, criteria — a form in WordPress, not a call to a developer.
The register →Recipients published from the award list
Enter each award once; the recipients page and every total come from it.
2026 recipients →Financials a funder can check
Three 990s, the audit and the IRS letter, with a line on what each is. None of nine real foundations we looked at had this.
Financials →Applications stay on the portal
The site links out to the application portal and collects nothing about students itself.
How applying works →A give panel that keeps your processor
Amounts, monthly or once, a fund to direct the gift to; the button connects to whatever the foundation already uses.
Try the panel →Reviewers sign before they score
A conflict-of-interest statement on the staff side, with the rule it comes from linked.
Open the staff preview →A staff home that says what needs doing
One tile per tool. Signs you in with no password; nothing you change is saved.
Open the staff preview →Sample organization. Every person, fund, figure and document on this site is invented for demonstration. The EIN cannot belong to any real organization.