Scholarships

Our community has been blessed with generous donors who know how important education is and who wanted to make sure our young people--our greatest asset--could take advantage of the educational opportunities they have earned. 

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Thanks to those donors, the Fort Atkinson Community Foundation offers a variety of scholarships for students who live in Fort Atkinson and/or graduated from Fort Atkinson High School. Some scholarships have multiple recipients, and some are paid over a number of years.

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In May 2026, the Fort Atkinson Community Foundation awarded 117 scholarships to 75 local students. Including $285,450 from 60 scholarships to 47 graduating high school seniors, $117,100 from 37 scholarships to 22 undergraduate students, and $63,000 from 20 scholarships to 9 graduate students. 

The total amount awarded was $465,550. To view the full listing of recipients and awards, please click here. 

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To learn if you are eligible for any of our scholarships, please review the specific criteria for each scholarship. You can access a complete listing of all our available scholarships or search by whether you are a high school senior, considering a vocational or technical school, a college undergraduate, or a graduate student. 

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Our 2026 application site is closed. Our foundation is transitioning to a new, online scholarship platform which will open on December 1st for 2027 applications. 

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For the purposes of our scholarships:

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• A Fort Atkinson High School graduate is defined as a person who has completed at least four consecutive semesters at Fort Atkinson High School, culminating in graduation from high school after the fourth semester.
   

• A resident of the Fort Atkinson area is defined as someone having a Fort Atkinson mailing address or who resides in the Fort Atkinson School District.

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• All selections made by the various scholarship review committees must be approved by the Fort Atkinson Community Foundation's Board of Directors.

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• Those awarded scholarships will receive a formal letter from the Community Foundation with details of how the scholarship will be paid and what the recipients need to do to receive the funds. 

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• All scholarships are paid directly to the school, college, or university the student is attending. Payments are generally made in the months of January and August.

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