Institution-ready sanctions screening for schools and universities
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Academic sanctions screening for schools and universities.
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SecurePoint Education in practice
Helping school business offices screen tuition relationships and preserve the review record.
3 named independent schools across 3 states: Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Michigan. Every mark here is published with written permission.
OFAC applies to every financial relationship
Students & applicants
Screen during enrollment and re-screen annually. International students require enhanced due diligence.
Parents & tuition payors
The IMG Academy settlement centered on unscreened tuition payors. Screen all parties making payments to the institution.
Sponsors & donors
Third-party sponsors, scholarship funds, and donor organizations must be screened before accepting funds.
Faculty & visiting educators
Foreign visiting faculty, researchers, and exchange program participants should be screened upon engagement.
Vendors & service providers
Contractors, suppliers, and service providers receiving payment from school funds require screening.
Payment agents & intermediaries
OFAC has confirmed that routing payments through third parties does not shield schools from liability.
Screening Dashboard
Real-time visibility across all screened parties
See screening status for every student, payor, and donor at a glance. Filter by status, list match, campus, or date range.
- Multi-list results across OFAC SDN, BIS, UN, EU, UK, and more
- Confidence scoring for potential matches
- Bulk screening via CSV upload for enrollment rosters
- Per-campus filtering and role-based access control
Institution-ready from day one
Built for school business offices and compliance leads
SecurePoint Education runs the screening, review, and evidence workflow your institution needs from day one — across students, tuition payors, sponsors, donors, vendors, and visiting faculty. No per-student fees. Documented review process, exportable evidence.
Security, privacy, and FERPA
Built for school vendor review before procurement asks
For FERPA-regulated education records, SecurePoint Education is designed to operate under your institution's DPA and FERPA Addendum as a school-designated service provider/school official. The workflow uses only the records your institution authorizes for screening, limits redisclosure, keeps organization-scoped access controls in place, and documents screening activity without claiming to make the institution FERPA compliant on its own.
From enrollment to evidence pack in four steps
A structured compliance workflow designed for school administrators and business officers.
Add parties for screening
Enter students, payors, sponsors, or donors individually, import from Blackbaud, or upload a roster via CSV. The system screens each party against all 17 default sanctions sources.
Review screening results
Clear results are auto-resolved. Potential matches surface for human review with AI-assisted confidence scoring and regulatory citations.
Adjudicate and document
Your compliance team reviews flagged results, records a decision, and adds notes. Every action is logged with an immutable timestamp.
Export evidence packs
Generate a self-contained PDF evidence pack for any screening. Includes the screening result, decision, reviewer identity, and regulatory context.
Licensing is the differentiator
Detection alone isn't enough — we help you preserve the relationship
Most sanctions tools stop at 'flagged.' SecurePoint Education's licensing engine goes further: it assesses whether an OFAC General License may authorize the transaction, prepares counsel-review Specific License documentation when one does not, and tracks internal license workflow status. A flagged tuition payor does not have to mean a lost student when a documented, authorized path exists.
Screening and licensing are two different jobs
Finding the flag is the easy half
Every sanctions vendor will tell you a name matched. The question your business office actually has to answer is what happens next to a family who is already enrolled. That is a different discipline, and it is where we are not the same product as the rest of the category.
Every plan
Screening and documented review
Find the exposure and prove you looked. This is the obligation itself, and it is the whole of what most vendors in this category sell.
- Screen students, tuition payors, guardians, sponsors, donors, vendors, and faculty
- Re-screen on a configurable cycle so a mid-year designation surfaces before the next invoice
- Route possible matches to a person, with confidence, source list, program, and country context
- Record the decision and the rationale on an append-only trail
- Export an evidence pack an examiner will accept
Plus and Enterprise
OFAC sanctions licensing
Everything on the left, plus the analysis of whether a lawful path exists to keep the relationship. This is the part that decides whether a flagged family stays enrolled.
- General License assessment: whether an existing OFAC authorization already covers the transaction
- Specific License packet prepared for your counsel to review, with the institution and party detail filled in
- Internal workflow status, from draft through counsel review to customer-led submission and outcome
- Renewal and expiration tracking, so an authorization does not lapse unnoticed
- Retroactive alerts when a newly issued General License reaches a case you already closed
This is OFAC sanctions licensing, meaning authorization to engage in a transaction that sanctions would otherwise prohibit. It is not export licensing and has nothing to do with EAR or ITAR classification. On every plan, a possible match is a documented human review and never an automatic rejection. SecurePoint USA assesses and prepares documentation for your counsel. It does not file with OFAC on your behalf, does not provide legal advice, and cannot guarantee that any application is granted.
February 2026 — OFAC Enforcement
IMG Academy: $1.72 million for 89 violations
IMG Academy, a Florida boarding school, accepted tuition payments from two parents on the OFAC SDN list — individuals with ties to Mexican drug cartels. OFAC found "reckless disregard" because the names were publicly available and the school never screened.
From a school business office
“To find an easy solution to a problem that has schools panicking over new legislation is a life saver.”
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Education compliance resources
OFAC Screening for Schools
Why OFAC enforcement applies to educational institutions and what it means for your school.
Learn moreTuition Payor Screening
Screening parents, guardians, sponsors, and third-party payors beyond the enrolled student.
Learn moreClearing a False Positive
How confidence scoring works, what a reviewer sees, and why a person, not the model, clears an alert.
Learn moreUK School Fee Payer Screening
Fee payer screening for UK independent schools against the UK Sanctions List and other watchlists.
Learn moreSponsor & Donor Screening
Due diligence for scholarships, grants, endowments, and institutional donors.
Learn moreSanctions List Coverage
Every list we screen against, the authority that issues it, and how often we refresh it.
Learn moreEvidence Packs
Audit-ready documentation for every screening decision your institution makes.
Learn moreContinuous Monitoring
Ongoing re-screening and status change alerts for enrolled parties.
Learn moreEducation White Paper
A comprehensive guide to sanctions screening requirements for schools and universities.
Learn moreOFAC Licensing Paths
A sanctions flag doesn't have to mean lost tuition. Explore General and Specific License options.
Learn moreTrust & Security
Security posture, tenant isolation, data minimization, subprocessors, and FERPA-aligned handling.
Learn moreBlackbaud & Flywire Compliance
Your SIS and payment processor don't screen for OFAC. SecurePoint adds the missing compliance layer.
Learn moreOFAC Compliance Checklist
A step-by-step program guide for schools building a defensible OFAC compliance program.
Learn morePlans & Pricing
Compare Standard, Plus, and Enterprise tiers. Unlimited screenings on every plan.
Learn moreEducation OFAC compliance FAQ
Common questions from school administrators and business officers.
Free guide: The New Education Compliance Reality in 2026
- Why Blackbaud and Flywire are not institutional sanctions screening
- The IMG Academy OFAC settlement, and why Section 117 foreign-gift reporting is a separate obligation from sanctions screening
- A 90-day sanctions-screening action plan for school business offices
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Protect your institution from OFAC enforcement
Book a school compliance review with our team. We'll walk your business office through the screening workflow, evidence pack, and licensing path — with your actual enrollment and payor roster in mind.