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What Is the EITC Program?
Through Pennsylvania’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program, a qualified business can fund education rather than pay a percentage of its state taxes. To do this, the business makes a gift, through the EITC program, to an EITC-registered scholarship organization or an EITC-registered education improvement organization.* The state Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) gives the business a tax credit equal to a percentage of the business’s contribution. DCED determines the eligibility of businesses, application procedures, application deadlines, and tax-credit limits.

• Holy Family Foundation is an EITC-registered scholarship organization. An EITC gift to the foundation provides scholarships for students who attend one of four schools. The contributor chooses the school whose students will benefit. The schools that Holy Family Foundation represents are

• The Holy Family Residential School, the school that serves children and teens who live on the Holy Family Institute campus, Emsworth, Pa.
• Holy Family Villa Academy, the school that serves children and teens who live on the campus of Saint Mary’s Villa for Children and Families, Ambler, Pa.
• Nazareth Academy Grade School, a Roman Catholic day school in Philadelphia that serves students in grades 1-8.
• Nazareth Academy High School, a Roman Catholic day school in Philadelphia that serves students in grades 9-12.

• Holy Family Learning is an EITC-registered education improvement organization. An EITC gift to Holy Family Learning funds an innovative program called SmartHelp tutoring that helps students improve their math skills.

For More Information
To find out more about how, at little cost, your company can provide a lot of help to students, please contact

     Toni Murray
     Holy Family Foundation
     (412) 766-9020 ext. 417
     E-mail: Murray.Toni@hfi-pgh.org

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*The state EITC program also includes a component that funds pre-kindergarten education. Holy Family does not offer pre-kindergarten programs, so Holy Family does not participate in this aspect of EITC.