Are you looking for need based financial aid?
If so, each college has a net price calculator on its web site. However, your situation has the following complications:
- Some (not all) colleges want both parents’ finances to calculate financial aid. You need to check whether that is the case for each college; if so at a given college, you need to include both of their finances in the net price calculator.
- Some colleges have financial aid methods that are unfavorable to small businesses, but are not reflected in their net price calculators (often less detailed ones that do not ask about small business income).
If a college uses only FAFSA, then the above may not be an issue. If it uses CSS Profile, it may or may not require the CSS Noncustodial Profile. If it uses the CSS Profile but not the College Board net price calculator, then the net price calculator is less likely to account for the small business.