To be considered for a scholarship all families must first complete an annual application. Please take a few moments to register online at www.ibescholarships.org, after which you may complete the annual application.

IBE offers multiple types of scholarships. To review eligibility criteria for each of these programs, please visit our page here.

Original Individual
Financial Aid Awards
Recommended Funds Awards

PLUS/Switcher
Financial Aid Awards
Recommended Funds Awards

Low-Income Corporate
Corporate Disabled/Displaced

Once every school year.

Applications are typically released February 1st for the following school year.  Applications may be completed at any time throughout the school year.  However,  your child will not considered for financial aid, nor can Recommended Funds be released until an application is complete.  The scholarship portal opens the 1st of each July-May to assess for aid and offer Recommended Funds.

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Some applications require financial & eligibility supporting documentation. All documentation
requirements will be listed within the application.

There is no set criteria for qualifying a family for financial aid; however,
when reviewing applications for financial aid our scholarship committee
considers the following:

• Income of the family
• Cost of tuition at the private school attending
• Number of children attending private school
• Letter of extenuating circumstances/hardships

IBE has a “Recommended Fund” program where applicant families may solicit friends, family members and any Arizona taxpayer to donate their Arizona state tax liability and recommend a student as the recipient of their donation.

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IBE awards 92% of all donations as scholarships.

Unfortunately, donors may not recommend their own dependent as a recipient.

IBE must pay for all operational and administrative expenses such as credit card fees, marketing, utilities and salaries out the 8%.

Students are only limited in that their combined scholarships cannot exceed their annual tuition.  If
additional Recommended Fund Scholarships are received, they will be awarded as multi-year
scholarships and can be utilized the following academic year.

Your school is required to refund IBE a prorated amount of funds. Those funds are then used to
scholarship a child in need. Please call our office to inform us if you choose to withdraw from private
school.  Upon withdrawal from private schooling, a child’s PLUS/Switcher and Corporate Low-Income eligibility is lost.

Any Recommended Funds may follow your child to the new school; however, financial aid scholarships will be remain with the original school. Please call our office to inform us if you choose to switch to a different private school.

In the event that you are able to solicit more Recommended Funds than is needed for the current school year, those funds will be awarded as a multi-year scholarship and will remain with the student for the following school year. Financial aid scholarships are awarded each school year. In the event that your child does not need the full amount awarded, the excess financial aid scholarship will be returned to IBE for re-award to another student in need.

Available Recommended Funds for families with complete applications are offered to the school between the 1 st  and 15 th  of each month except for June.

IBE scholarships can pay for tuition costs only.

No. Per Arizona state law, IBE is unable to pay for a prior school year’s tuition.

You cannot be funded by both programs at the same time. If you are eligible to receive tax credit scholarships (grades K-12 in an Arizona private school with a completed application on file) you can solicit recommended Fund donations the entire time you are on ESA.

IBE will award multi-year Recommended Fund Scholarships which can be paid to the private school once a cancellation of ESA contract and IBE transfer verification are received. This allows you to solicit funds for a future higher tuition, such as high school, the entire time you are in elementary school.

Yes. The law requires IBE to have an annual independent audit completed and the IBE Board of Trustees has required this audit even before it was part of the law.  Transparency is paramount to IBE.

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