IMPORTANT: This scholarship is on a first-come, first-served basis, so the application may close before the deadline on November 14, 2025. If you have already received an EITC scholarship from CAY for the 2025-26 school year, you are ineligible for this application.

 

Is Your Child Eligible to Apply for an EITC K-12 Scholarship?

• Residents of York County, Pennsylvania
• Enrolled in a K-12 tuition-based school in Pennsylvania for the 2024-25 school year
• Annual household income is no more than $116,055 plus $20,428 for each dependent child (for example, for a household with 1 child, the maximum household income cannot exceed $136,483).

Complete and submit the online application with income documentation by November 14, 2025. Your application will not be considered if we do not have accompanying income verification. 

 

All applications MUST be accompanied by a copy of Pages 1 and 2 from the most recent, signed Federal Tax Return – Form 1040, 1040A or 1040EZ for ALL wage-earning adults residing in the household, or it will be considered incomplete.

• Please make sure the child(ren) for whom the scholarship is intended are listed as a dependent on one of the submitted Federal Tax Returns.
• If you are not required to file a Federal Tax Return and receive only non-taxable income, please submit documentation of your non-taxable income (SSI, Child Support, etc.). This is required for acceptance of this application.

*In calculating household income for the purpose of determining student eligibility, you must include ALL monies and property received of whatever nature and from whatever source, except for the following:

• Periodic payments for sickness and disability other than regular wages received during a period of sickness or disability.
• Disability, retirement, or other payments arising under workers’ compensation acts, occupational disease acts and similar legislation by any government.
• Payments commonly recognized as old age or retirement benefits paid to persons retired from service after reaching a specific age or after a stated period of employment.
• Payments commonly known as public assistance or unemployment compensation payments by a governmental agency.
• Payments to reimburse actual expenses.
• Payments made by employers or labor unions for programs covering hospitalization, sickness, disability or death, supplemental unemployment benefits, strike benefits, social security, and retirement.
• Compensation received by United States servicemen/women serving in a combat zone.

For more information about the Educational Improvement Tax Credit program, please visit DCED’s website.

 

Thank you to all our EITC SO donors for the 2025-26 school year. Crispus Attucks York is a PA State Pre-K, EIO, and SO organization. The EITC program is monitored and administered by the PA Department of Community and Economic Development.