Scholarship Opportunities

Raise.Me Micro-Scholarship Program

Qualifications:

Application available for 9th-12th grade, but awards not given until verification of achievements at the end of senior year

Amount: Each college/university that participates offers different awards for different achievements.

Deadline: Varies by college/university

Start your profile today at Raise.Me!  

Qualifications:

Students who age out of Iowa's foster care system, age out of the Iowa State Training School, or who are adopted from foster care after the age of 16 may qualify for the All Iowa Opportunity Foster Care Grant program. This grant can be used for any college expenses including tuition, fees, books and supplies, dorms and off-campus housing, meal plans, transportation, and personal living expenses.  For the application and more information, click here

Amount: Up to $9,000 each year

Deadline: Application available Jan. 1st through Dec. 1st each year

 Horatio Alger Iowa Scholarship

The Horatio Alger Association currently has 600+ scholarships available, up to $25,000 each.

• Undergraduate Scholarship available to high school juniors, open now until March 1st 2025.
• Career Technical Scholarship opens March 1st 2025 and closes June 1st 2025, for anyone who is a high school senior through age 35 looking to attend this fall.
• Targeted Scholarships in Iowa, dependent on what school someone might attend, for high school seniors, open now until March 1st 2025.

These opportunities are seeking individuals who display integrity and perseverance in overcoming adversity, and plan to pursue higher education.

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Elks National Foundation Scholarship 

Qualifications:

• You must be a current high school senior. High school graduates are not eligible.
• You must be a citizen of the United States on the date your application is submitted; permanent legal resident status does not qualify.

Note: You do not have to be a member (or the dependent of a member) of the Elks to qualify.

Amount:  $1,000-$7,500 

Deadline:  November 12, 2024

Apply here

Scholarship:  Pearl Hull Falk Scholarship

Qualifications:

• Be of the Protestant faith.
• A resident of the State of Iowa.
• Plan to attend University of Iowa full time.

Amount:  $5000

Deadline:  March 3, 2025

Apply here

Scholarship:  First Friday Breakfast Club

Qualifications:

• Be an Iowa high school senior and plan to pursue post-secondary education.
• Have committed to reducing homophobia and increasing awareness and tolerance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ+) issues in their schools and communities

• Information and application found here

Amount:  $3,000

Deadline:  March 15, 2025

Qualifications:

The DMWC annually awards scholarships to graduating high school seniors, college students, and students pursuing higher education degrees. This year, the DMWC will give scholarships in areas of study including art, drama, music, STEM, Music Education, Elementary Education, and Veterinary Sciences.

Amount:  $1,000-$2,000 each

Deadline:  Throughout the month of January 2025

Multiple applications found here

Dollars For Scholars

Qualifications:

 NHS or WEST Academy senior planning to attend an accredited vocational/technical, two or four year college or university.

 Apply at: Dollars for Scholars

Get the 2025 Application Tipsheet   here

Amount: TBD 

Deadline: March 6, 2025

Scholarship:  DMACC Foundation Scholarship

Qualifications:

• Plan to attend DMACC Fall 2025/2026 academic year.
• Minimum of a 2.0 GPA.
• Apply here

Amount: 

 $250-$1500 per year. 

Deadline:  March 1, 2025

Scholarship:  Michael White Memorial Scholarship

Qualifications:

• Must be a graduating senior in the spring of 2025 from NHS or WEST Academy.
• Senior who will be pursuing a career working with children, students, or adults who have special needs.

Amount:  $500

 Apply here

Deadline:  April 4, 2025

Trenton Brady Memorial Scholarship

Qualifications:

• Must be a graduating senior from Newton High School.
• Must be planning to attend a two year community college, four year college/university, or academy (such as police academy, etc). 
• Must complete a narrative describing your future plans and how your character and work ethic will impact this profession.

This foundation's goal is to provide a monetary source of scholarships (amount varies) to a Newton senior graduating in the spring of 2025 pursuing an education in criminal justice / law enforcement, or fire and emergency services.

Trenton Brady Memorial Scholarship

Amount:  TBD

Due: April 14, 2025

 NCEA (Newton Community Education Association)

Qualifications:

• NHS or WEST Academy senior.
• Pursue a career in education.
• Applications must be typed

Apply here

Amount:  $750

Deadline:  April 4, 2025 (by noon)

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must:

• Be currently enrolled or plan to be enrolled part-time or full-time in an accredited U.S. college or university. Vocational/technical, two-year, four-year, or graduate institutions are eligible.
• Be a high school junior or senior, undergraduate student, or graduate student
• Have a grade point average of 2.5 or above on a 4.0 system
• Recipients must provide an official transcript confirming their reported GPA and proof of enrollment
• The Act of Kindness Scholarship supports students who are committed to helping others in their schools or communities.

• Amount: $1,000 
• Deadline: February 28, 2025
• Apply here

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must:

• Be currently enrolled or plan to be enrolled part-time or full-time in an accredited U.S. college or university. Vocational/technical, two-year, four-year, or graduate institutions are eligible.
• Be a high school junior or senior, undergraduate student, or graduate student
• Have a grade point average of 2.5 or above on a 4.0 system
• Recipients must provide an official transcript confirming their reported GPA and proof of enrollment
• Amount: $1,000
• Deadline: May 31, 2025
• Apply here

Criteria: This application is for a Special Education graduating senior student (with an IEP) who will continue his/her education at a college or university.

Amount: $2000

Deadline: Jan. 10, 2025

Apply here

Criteria: This application is for a graduating senior student who will continue his/her education at a college or university and is planning to study Education, specifically Special Education.

Amount: $2000

Deadline: Jan. 10, 2025

Apply here

Iowa Newspaper Association Scholarship

• Students planning a career in newspapers

Amout: varies

Deadline: February 14, 2025

Apply here

Iowa Junior Chamber International (JCI) Senate Vocational / Industrial Scholarship

Eligibility: 

-Pursuing a Vocational/Industrial Post Secondary Program

- 3.25 GPA

Amount: $300-$1500

Deadline: January 17, 2025

Application found here

Checklist for application found here

GRAND LODGE OF IOWA MASONIC SCHOLARSHIPS

Eligibility: 

-graduating seniors in pursuing a post-secondary education

-Applicants are not required to have a Masonic connection

Amount: $2500-$5000

Deadline: February 1, 2025

Apply here

Children’s Cancer Connection Empowering Scholarship

Eligibility:

-Applicant must be directly affected by childhood cancer. (This includes individuals who currently have or have had cancer before age 18 or a sibling of that individual.)

-Applicant must be within the Children’s Cancer Connection service area. (Living, treated or diagnosed in the state of Iowa)

-Applicant must be a graduating high school senior planning to attend an accredited two- or four-year educational institution (trade school, college or university) OR be a student currently enrolled in post-secondary education.

Apply here

Amount:  TBD

Deadline: January 31, 2025

Hixon Scholarship

Eligibility: High school seniors graduating in 2024 who will be entering as a first-year student at Iowa State University in Fall 2024

-Selection is based on the student's county, eligibility and potential as demonstrated through the application, letter of recommendation, and financial need analysis. Students may major in any curriculum and must maintain a 2.00 cumulative grade point average for renewal.

Amount: $20,000 over 8 semesters

Apply here

Deadline: Feb. 1, 2025

Daughters of the American Revolution Scholarships

Eligibility:

All applicants must be citizens of the United States and must attend or plan to attend an accredited college or university in the United States. DAR chapter sponsorship is not required; however, a DAR member may be used as a reference or may assist you with your application.

Amount:  Varies

Find multiple scholarships and apply here

Deadline Jan 31, 2025

Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship

Eligibility:-High School seniors planning to pursue a computer science or engineering degree

-Have a financial gap to fill

-2.3 or higher GPA

Amount: up to $40,000

Deadline: Dec. 19, 2024

Apply here

Simpson College “All-in for Iowa” Program

• The Simpson $100K Promise: Pledges full-tuition support for admitted students whose family’s adjusted household income is $100,000 or less. 
• 99 County Full-Tuition: Guarantees that one admitted student from each of Iowa’s 99 counties will be offered a full-tuition scholarship. Those scholarships will be awarded via a committee selection process, which includes consideration of both financial need and academic merit.
  

Find more information here

Better Business Bureau Scholarship

Amount: $2500

Deadline: January 17, 2025

Find Guidelines and Application here

H.S. Ostlin Memorial Scholarship

Eligibility:

-Attend Iowa State in the fall of 2025 and be a resident of Dallas, Jasper, Marion, Marshall, Polk, Story, or Warren county.

-To be considered students must complete the online OneApp Scholarship Application 

OneApp Scholarship Link

-Complete FAFSA and have an offer of admission to Iowa State

FAFSA Deadline for consideration- Feb 4, 2025

OneApp Deadline: Feb. 13, 2025

Amount: $1000 and renewable for 3 years.

Preference given to students who demonstrate financial need.

Jasper County Soil and Water Conservation District Scholarship

Qualifications: Seniors interested in conservation and agriculture.

Amount: $500 (with opportunity for more)

Find application here

Find scholarship rules here

Deadline: Friday, February 7, 2025.

PROFESSIONAL WOMEN IN BUILDING SCHOLARSHIP- DES MOINES

Qualifications: Applicants must be residents of Iowa and either: 

1. Pursuing a career in the home building industry and/or related trades in Iowa 

2. Attending a trade school or apprenticeship in Iowa

 3. Attending a higher educational institution in Iowa

 Applications from high school, college, graduate, and post-graduate educational levels are accepted. Preference is given to local women in trade school programs, but all are welcome to apply.

Amount: Varies

Find application here

Deadline: February 28, 2025 

HBA IA EC Scholarship

Qualifications: Any student pursuing a career in the home building industry and related trades including immediate family members of the HBA of Iowa (builder or associate members). The fund is dedicated but not limited to college age students between the ages of 18 – 25 years.

Amount:  Up to $1000

Apply here

Deadline: March 31, 2025

Central Iowa Chapter of the Iowa Engineering Society Scholarship

Qualifications:

1. All applicants must enroll in an eligible engineering curriculum, intend to earn a degree in engineering, and to enter the practice of engineering after graduation. IES scholarship award is contingent upon acceptance for admission at an Iowa ABET accredited Engineering school.

2.  Only applicants with a documented high school transcript and ACT test scores will be considered.

3.  Academic requirements are: 

GPA: Minimum - 3.5

ACT Composite Score: Minimum - 24

4. Only current year IES application forms are

acceptable.

5.  Applicants must be a U.S. Citizen and an Iowa

resident.

Amount: TBD

Apply here

Deadline Feb 26, 2025

Jim Hallihan Character Legacy Scholarship

Eligibility

High school seniors, graduating in spring 2025. One recipient will be chosen from an Iowa high school to honor Jim’s work with

youth in Iowa, and another recipient will be chosen from a Decatur, Illinois high school to honor his hometown. Scholarships can

be applied towards continuing education in community colleges, universities, and/or trade schools.

Amount: $1500.00

Apply here

Deadline: March 1, 2025.

Spirit of Chandy Scholarship

Qualifications:

Applicants for the Bank Iowa Spirit of Chandy Scholarship must be high school seniors who plan to enroll as full-time undergraduates at an accredited four-year college or university or a two-year junior or community college in the fall following graduation. This scholarship program is available to both Bank Iowa customers and non-customers.

Apply here

Amount:  $1000

Deadline: March 21, 2025

James B. Morris Scholarship

Eligibility Criteria: Applicants must be a minority ethnic status as defined by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and have a minimum 2.75 G.P.A. All applicants must be U.S. Citizens and have a valid social security number in addition to being:

(1) Iowa high school graduate or

(2) a 2024 graduate and an Iowa resident who is or will be attending any U.S. college or university;

Apply here

Amount: up to $2,000; renewable

Deadline: February 28, 2025

AES Engineering Scholarship 

Scholarship Criteria

Our belief is that achieving a high grade point average should not be the only criteria for determining who deserves to be helped. For that reason we are offering a scholarship that will be awarded on the basis of character, as determined by an evaluation of the essays that are submitted.

Scholarships are intended for our future leaders across a wide spectrum of fields of study. This award is available to high school seniors and all students attending a post secondary educational facility.

You are not required to be taking Engineering courses to be eligible.

Amount: $500

Apply here

Deadline: October 8, 2025