Scholarship funds

What are they?
Scholarship funds allow you to make merit-, need- or academic-based scholarship awards to individual students. With a scholarship fund, you can establish the criteria for selecting scholarship recipients and identify a partnering organization that best fits with the student population you want to support.

The Montana Community Foundation offers two types of scholarship funds, restricted and donor advised.
Several factors influence which fund type is right for you, including the size of your fund, whether or not you want to identify the criteria or student population to receive awards, and whether you wish to partner with an organization to select or nominate qualified scholars. Our program staff and financial advisors will help you decide which is appropriate for your scholarship goals.

The community foundation is home to approximately 50 scholarship funds and disburses more than $.... in annual scholarship grant awards each year, making it one of the largest scholarship providers in the state of Montana.

Highlights:

• Our scholarships can support students of all ages who are obtaining their education and degrees at every level in the educational system.
• Currently, a scholarship fund at the community foundation is considered nondiscriminatory even if it benefits a limited group of people, such as women, minorities or residents of a particular community.
• If you’re interested in a comprehensive approach to helping scholars succeed, the community foundation is also able to help you identify and partner with nonprofit organizations that sponsor college preparation activities such as tutoring, test preparation, mentoring and more.

To learn more about scholarship funds, please contact Program Director Brian Lewis .

Our Scholarship Funds…

Alan and Janette Blackburn Scholarship Fund
BBX Scholarship Endowment
Beyer Family Foundation Endowment
Bill and Jan Pierce Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Bud Anderson Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Cowboy Christmas Ball Scholarship Endowment
Capital High School Class of 1977 Scholarship Endowment
David Payne Scholarship Endowment for Whitehall High School
Davidson Companies Continuing Education Endowment
Evelyn B. Johnson Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Fred and Gloria Thaut Webber Scholarship Endowment
Fritz Wipplinger Memorial Scholarship Endowment
George and Emily Vucanovich Educational Trust Endowment
Geyser, Montana Schools Endowment
Glasgow Elks Lodge #1922 Scholarship Endowment
Great Falls High School Class of 1951 Scholarship Endowment
J.O. Thoreson - Broadview Endowment
Kitty Berube Teacher Education/Butte Silver Bow Scholarship
Lion's Club of Joliet Scholarship Endowment
Lt. Col. J.D. Coleman and Madeline Young Coleman Scholarship Endowment
Margaret Deshler Endowment
Margaret Rigby Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Montana Food Distributors Association Scholarship Endowment
Montana Graduate GIS Scholarship Endowment
Native American Scholarship Endowment
Nelson Seeley Baker High School Scholarship Endowment
Quad Five Scholarship Endowment
Reiland Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Robert and Lillian Tirrell Scholarship Endowment
Robinson Family Scholarship Endowment
Saco High School Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Sam and Hulda Clark Scholarship Endowment
Stanley Howard Larson Memorial Scholarship
Sweetgrass County High School Centennial Scholarship Endowment
T. Eugene Young Scholarship Endowment
Three Forks High School Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Three Forks Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Thueson and Lamb Scholarship Endowment
Tom Antonsen Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Tuesday Music Club Scholarship Endowment
Uri Barnea Music Scholarship Endowment
W.E. (Polly) and Sue Southwick Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Walter and Elaine Anderson Scholarship Endowment
Wyman Family Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Montana Bankers Association Education Endowment
Montana Bankers Education Foundation Endowment
Montana Society of CPAs' Education Endowment

See a list of Montana Community Foundation’s scholarship funds.

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