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 2025, the Fort Atkinson Community Foundation awarded 130 scholarships to 88 local students. Including $297,325 from 73 scholarships to 52 graduating high school seniors, $127,800 from 41 scholarships to 24 undergraduate students, and $49,000 from 16 scholarships to 12 graduate students. 

The total amount awarded was $474,125. 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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Once you determine the scholarships for which you are eligible, go to To Apply on the scholarship drop down box and start the application process.

Our application site is now open. Applications deadlines are February 6th at April 1st at 10pm (review each scholarship for the deadline date).

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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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