Your donor page
Donors give at your web address, on a page wearing your logo and colors. The identity check, the payment rails, and the per-donor §25F receipt run underneath, under your name.
White-label
Your donors see your SGO. Not sgosoftware.com.
For a Scholarship Granting Organization, the donor relationship is the asset. That is why SGO Software is white-label by default: every surface a donor, family, or school touches runs under your organization's name, logo, and colors, on your own domain if you want it. The §25F compliance engine does its work underneath, invisible.
Every surface, your brand
White-label is not a logo swap. It is the whole surface.
Most scholarship platforms put their own brand in front of your donors: the donation page is theirs, the receipt is theirs, the emails are theirs. Your organization becomes a line item on someone else’s website.
SGO Software works the other way around. You are the brand; we are the engine. Here is what that covers.
Your family application
Parents apply to your scholarship fund, not to a software vendor. Document upload, the 300% AMGI eligibility check, and award letters all carry your brand.
Your school portals
Each school you serve signs in to a portal that looks like yours. Agreements, per-student ledgers, and disbursements stay inside your brand.
Your sign-in, not ours
Your staff and every school's admins sign in at one branded address, in your colors, never a vendor login screen. The account's role sends each person to the right portal automatically.
Your receipts and emails
Every §25F tax-credit receipt, award letter, and notification goes out from your organization's name and email domain. Donors file a receipt from you.
The alternative
The other way in is a national fund, and it costs you everything that matters.
The quickest routes into §25F are the national funds: give through their pot, let them run the back office, and pay nothing up front. The catch is what “free” actually costs. The donors become theirs, the brand on the receipt is theirs, and in many cases they run distribution, so you do not even choose who your scholarships go to.
- Donors give to the fund's brand, not yours
- The fund keeps the donor list and the relationships
- The fund runs distribution, so you may not choose recipients
- Your organization is a channel inside someone else's mission
- Donors give to your brand, on your own domain
- The donor list and every relationship stay yours
- You decide every award, which school, which student
- You are the SGO of record, start to finish
Why it matters
Under §25F, your brand is your donor pipeline.
The federal Education Freedom Tax Credit turns donor acquisition into the core competition between SGOs. Donors get the same dollar-for-dollar federal credit wherever they give, so they give to the organization they know and trust. An SGO that builds its donor base under its own name owns that base. An SGO that rents space on a marketplace builds someone else’s.
White-labeling also matters at tax time: every donor files a §25F receipt, and that receipt carries your organization’s name. It is a yearly, IRS-adjacent touchpoint that reinforces who the donor gave to, and who they should give to again next January.
What stays yours
- Your name, logo, and colors on every portal
- Your own domain for giving and applications
- Receipts and emails sent from your organization
- Your donor list and donor data, never marketed to
- Your scholarship decisions: you choose who gets funded
- Your schools' trust: their portal looks like your program
Your brand, start to finish.
Your donors, your families, and your schools deal with your organization on every surface, from the donation page to the receipt. The vendor stays invisible, and the relationship you build stays yours to keep.
How it goes live
Your brand is running in days, not a build project.
White-labeling is the default setting, not a services engagement. You configure your logo, colors, and copy, and every surface is already wearing your brand. Here is what standing up your SGO actually looks like.
A branded subdomain, day one, zero setup
Your SGO goes live the moment your account is verified, on a clean branded address, for example yourname.scholarcredit.org, at no setup cost. Donations, applications, and sign-in for your team and your schools are already running there. The base domain stays deliberately neutral, so donors read a plain scholarship address, never a vendor name.
Your own domain, on a few DNS records
Move to your own domain whenever you want: donate.yourdomain.org, apply.yourdomain.org, and an admin sign-in address like admin.yourdomain.org. Even sign-in is white-labeled, so your staff and your schools never see a vendor URL. Your existing website stays untouched; setup is a few DNS records, not a migration.
No developers, no integration sprint
There is nothing to build. Your logo, colors, and copy configure the surfaces, and the §25F compliance engine, payments, identity verification, and reporting are already wired underneath.
Your brand and data stay portable
Your donor list and records are yours to keep and to export. SGO Software is infrastructure you run on, not a fund that holds your relationships. If you ever leave, you take your donors with you.
FAQ
White-label questions, answered.
What does white-label mean in SGO software?
It means the software runs under your Scholarship Granting Organization's brand instead of the vendor's. On SGO Software, the donor page, family application, school portals, receipts, and emails all carry your name, logo, and colors. The §25F compliance engine, payments, identity verification, eligibility math, and reporting, runs underneath without appearing in front of your donors.
Can our SGO use its own domain?
Yes, and you do not have to wait for it. Every SGO gets a branded subdomain from day one, at no setup cost, for example yourname.scholarcredit.org. When you are ready, we move your donor page, application, and even your team's sign-in to your own domain, for example give.yourfund.org, on a few DNS records. Emails and receipts can send from your domain as well, and your existing website stays untouched.
How fast can we launch under our brand?
Fast. Your SGO goes live on a branded subdomain the moment your account is verified, with no build project or integration work. Many SGOs start collecting donor commitments well before donations open on January 1, 2027.
Can we start on a subdomain and move to our own domain later?
Yes. You launch immediately on a branded subdomain, included at no extra cost, and move to your own domain whenever you are ready, without disrupting donors or breaking your links. Your team's sign-in address moves with it.
Is sign-in white-labeled too, or just the donor page?
Everything is. Your staff and each school's admins sign in at your branded address, and their account role routes them to the right portal automatically. No one on your team or in your school network ever sees a vendor login screen.
How do you verify a new SGO signing up?
When you create an account, we check your organization's name and EIN live against IRS records. A clean match activates you quickly; anything that does not match routes to manual review by our team. Every signup is reviewed by a person before approval.
Do families and schools see our brand too, or just donors?
Everyone does. The donor page, the family application, and each school's portal all run under your organization's name, logo, and colors. The vendor never appears in front of any of them.
Who chooses which students get scholarships?
You do. Your SGO makes every award decision under its own guidelines. Unlike a national fund that runs distribution on your behalf, SGO Software gives you the tools to review applications and choose recipients yourself, then disburses to the schools you pick.
Is white-labeling an extra cost or a higher tier?
Your organization's name, logo, and colors are on every surface from day one, not a premium unlock and not a skin applied at the end. What your program pays is scoped to you, and your quote spells it out before you commit to anything.
What happens to our brand and donor data if we leave?
It stays yours. Your donor list and records are exportable, and your brand is your own. SGO Software is infrastructure you rent, not a fund that owns your relationships.
Can donors tell SGO Software is underneath?
No. The donor never sees a vendor name. Identity verification, payment rails, receipt generation, and reporting all happen invisibly behind your branded surfaces.
We’ll walk you through your surfaces with your logo on them
Be ready the day §25F donations open
January 1, 2027 is the same starting line for every SGO. See the platform built from the ground up for §25F: it turns every school you serve into a donor channel, then handles eligibility, disbursement, and reporting in one compliant system. You receive donations and choose scholarships, the platform does the rest.