By Corey Kopp, Scholarship & Grants Program Officer

If you’re dreaming big, Montana Community Foundation has scholarships to help achieve your ambitions. 

Whether you are pursuing a two or four-year degree, a certificate, or a graduate degree, you can apply today to start making your plans a reality. Community members from around Montana have stepped up to create these great opportunities — families, alumni, local businesses, and community leaders who believe in students like you. 

Want to become an electrician? How about a welder? The Nep & Mary Ellen Lynch Trade School Scholarship can help you get there with awards of up to $5,000. So can the Reach for the Future Scholarship for Vocational Degree Programs, offering up to $2,500 per academic year. 

Opportunities like the Jadie Butterfly Memorial Scholarship uplift graduating high school seniors from Browning while honoring Montanans like Jadie, a talented athlete and star student in Browning whose life was cut short in 2024. Her family honors her legacy with a $500 award for qualifying students. 

Other scholarships focus on specific groups, like the Marcia Edsall Scholarship, which awards up to $10,000 per academic year to female college juniors and seniors who graduated from Bozeman, Gallatin, or Belgrade high schools. 

For athletes, the Henry Braly All Athlete Scholarship offers $5,000 to a graduating high school senior playing any sport at Absarokee High School. 

The scholarships you can find through MCF benefit a diverse range of students, so don’t count yourself out. MCF has all the tools you need to search and apply for the scholarships you’re qualified for. Take our scholarship eligibility quiz, search the scholarship directory, and apply online today. The deadline to submit applications is March 31 (unless otherwise indicated). 

We're Here to Help 

For additional help, questions, or comments, contact Corey Kopp, Scholarship & Grants Program Officer, at 406-262-7711 or by email. 

If you’re a graduate of Great Falls High School, the child of a Montana Highway Patrol trooper or an athlete from Absarokee, there’s a scholarship just for you: 

• Henry Braly All Athlete Scholarship, Absarokee High School
• Henry Braly Give A Hand Scholarship, Absarokee High School
• Henry Braly Memorial Scholarship, Absarokee High School
• Leo & Anne Berry Family Scholarship, Anaconda High School
• Nelson L. Seeley Scholarship for Baker High School, Baker High School
• Margaret Rigby Class of 1956 Memorial Scholarship, Billings Senior High School
• Marcia Edsall Scholarship, Bozeman, Gallatin, or Belgrade High Schools
• J.O. Thoreson Broadview Scholarship, Broadview High School
• Ray Doig Memorial Scholarship, Broadwater High School
• Jadie Butterfly Memorial Scholarship, Browning High School
• Kitty Berube Teacher Education Scholarship, Butte High School or Butte Central High School
• Montana Trial Lawyers Association Scholarship, Capital and Helena High Schools
• Bigger Sky Scholarship, graduates of high schools on the Fort Peck Reservation
• Great Falls High School Class of 1951 Scholarship, Great Falls High School
• Sam & Hulda Clark Scholarship, Golden Valley County
• Mabel Redding Memorial Scholarship, Hardin High School
• Seeley Family Memorial Scholarship, Helena First Presbyterian Church members, employees and their children
• Philip A. & Bonnie J. Henault Blackfoot Valley Educational Scholarship, graduates of high schools in Helmville, Lincoln, or Ovando
• Mark Kelly Scholarship Fund in Memory of Ruth Kelly, Jefferson High School
• Louise Dean Lincoln High School Scholarship, Lincoln High School
• Park County Scholarship, Park County High School
• Saco High School Memorial Scholarship, Saco High School
• Cowboy Christmas Ball Scholarship for Sweetgrass High School, Sweet Grass County High School
• Sweet Grass County High School Centennial Scholarship, Sweet Grass County High School
• Dearborn Ranch Montana Highway Patrol Scholarship, children of Montana Highway Patrol troopers
• Evelyn B. Johnson Memorial Scholarship, members of the Order of the Rainbow for Girls
• Nep & Mary Ellen Lynch Trade School Scholarship, students at accredited trade schools
• Reach for the Future Scholarship for Vocational Programs, students studying a vocation or trade