Scholarship and Grant Management, Built for Every Step
From the first question on your application to the last dollar disbursed and the outcome that follows. Kaleidoscope is the scholarship and grant management platform built for providers of every kind, at every scale.
Who does Kaleidoscope serve?
The Kaleidoscope platform offers a consistent and reliable approach to end-to-end program management, regardless of your award. The platform features are designed to optimize each step of the process.
Scholarships
Review learner applications, eligibility, third-party recommendations, and reviewer scorecards on our scholarship and grant management platform. These platform features simplify the entire process.
Grants
Invite multiple contributors, review applications, monitor project budgets, and manage disbursement requests. Grant management is made easier by our platform features.
Awards
Kaleidoscope supports a range of other awards, including mentorship programs, sweepstakes, fellowships, internships, summer camps, and more. All these awards benefit from our platform features.
One platform, designed by the team behind 450+ scholarship programs
Ecosystem reach
Your applicant pool is bigger than your listing.
Kaleidoscope houses your awards, advances your programs, and matches your criteria to the right learners. Every learner who creates a profile through any program in the ecosystem can discover yours, so you are not limited to the people who happen to find your listing. Scholar relationship management lets you deepen those relationships long after the award.
Your program, your brand
The platform runs in the background. Your learners see you.
You maintain full control over your branding: color scheme, logo, name, description fields, buttons, and notifications. Our team makes sure your application is an extension of your brand, not ours.
A decade of expertise
The expertise no prompt can replace.
From learners to reviewers, recommenders, and providers, Kaleidoscope supports every party across the full scholarship lifecycle. Ten years and 450 plus implementations of pattern recognition sit behind every program we run. Our data architecture enables personalized communication for:
- Customer service
- Marketing campaigns
- Nudge notifications
- Email reminders
Visibility that closes the loop
Funders who see outcomes give again.
All your program data lives in one place on your personalized dashboard. When funders can see what their investment produced, a certification completed, a career started, a learner who came back to give, they invest again.
FAQs for providers
Kaleidoscope works with a wide variety of sponsors, including:
- Community foundations
- National foundations
- Corporations and corporate foundations
- Higher education institutions
- Any organization looking to launch a program
Our Implementation specialists can complete a setup in less than 30 minutes and have your award program live within days. Reach out to discuss how we can help launch your application based on your own timeline.
Prices vary by individual program needs, and our updated pricing includes packages for even the smallest teams. We’d be glad to get in touch to discuss what plan would be best for your program. Explore our platform features to see how we can specifically meet your needs.
No, and that is one of the things that makes Kaleidoscope different. If you have your own charitable infrastructure, Kaleidoscope works with it. If you do not, the Kaleidoscope Scholarship Fund can serve as your charitable vehicle. You can run a compliant scholarship program without building a foundation or navigating IRS complexity alone.
Community foundations, corporations, family foundations, employers, faith-based groups, and individual philanthropists. If you run a scholarship program or want to start one, Kaleidoscope is built for you.
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