Free to read, always
No account, no paywall, no email gate. A resource you can only reach by handing over your details isn't a resource, it's a mailing list.
About Fundsy
Two students started keeping a list. It got long enough to be worth sharing, and then long enough to need a website.
How it started
In spring 2025 Amy missed a scholarship deadline she'd have qualified for, because the only place it was posted was a noticeboard in a building she had no reason to walk into. Ryan had been keeping a note on his phone of every place near campus that took a student ID. Comparing the two, it was obvious neither of us was the only one missing things.
Fundsy is that list, checked and kept current. Everything on it has been used by a student at a DFW school, or verified by one who called ahead. If we can't confirm something, it doesn't go up.
It is still just students. Nobody is paid, no business has ever paid to appear, and the whole thing runs on a list, a shared inbox and a lot of asking around.
How we decide what goes up
Four rules. They are the reason you can trust a listing without checking it yourself.
Checked by someone who was there
A student on that campus confirms every listing before it goes up, and re-checks the time-sensitive ones each semester.
Small businesses don't pay us
Spotlights are free. We write about places we actually go, and we say so when a business gives us something.
We say when we don't know
If a deadline is unclear or a discount is inconsistent, the listing says that instead of guessing.
What we want next
- An ambassador on every DFW campus, not just the six we cover now
- Listings in Spanish, since a third of the students we're writing for are more comfortable reading it
- A weekly text for deadlines, for students who don't open newsletters