Maximize Your Impact. Minimize Your Tax Liability.

The Federal Scholarship Tax Credit (formerly known as ECCA) bill allows you to claim a federal tax credit for your donation to an SGO. Learn why Step Up is the expert partner you need.

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The Step Up Advantage

Why trust us with your federal contribution? Because we've been the nation's leader in state-level programs for decades.

Efficiency: Our 9X.X% efficiency rate means your contribution goes directly to students, not overhead.

Scale: Our existing platform manages over $X billion. We are built to handle ECCA funds seamlessly from Day 1.

Compliance: We are experts in the complex compliance of tax credit programs. Your contribution is safe with us.

Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Tax Credit: The Details

Who Can Donate?

The Federal Scholarship Tax Credit is open to individual taxpayers. We are actively monitoring rules to be distributed by the U.S. Department of Treasury for additional information.

What is the Credit?

This is a dollar-for-dollar FEDERAL tax credit for contributions made to an approved Scholarship Granting Organization (SGO) like Step Up For Students. This directly reduces your federal tax liability.

What is the Cap?

There is no cap for donations. You can donate up to $1700 to receive the tax credit and any additional donations count as a deduction.

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Your Questions, Answered

We understand you have detailed questions about the financial specifics. Here are the answers our donor and CPA partners most frequently ask.

Your Contribution. Their Future.

"Homeschooling wasn't good only for him, it was great for us because it exposed us to a totally different world and allowed us to think outside of the box... We don't have to go with the status quo. Yes, the government says your child must be educated, but there's another way you can do it.

It just opened up a different world for us, and I have no regrets."

- Barbara, Step Up Scholarship Parent

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Pledge your Federal Scholarship Tax Credit (formerly known as ECCA) contribution today. Our team will contact you as soon as the program is live to finalize your donation.

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