Local & State Scholarships
General Instructions
Each scholarship below has a link to either the application itself or the scholarship's website.
Note that any deadline dates could change from year to year, and we may not catch the change.
It is your responsibility to read all application instructions and deadlines and make sure you adhere to them. Otherwise you may be eliminated from the applicant pool.
Any applications that are incomplete or late will be eliminated from the applicant pool.
All applications must be downloaded and saved on a computer before you can fill it out. If you fill it out before doing this, then the application will not save with your information. If there is not a link to a common application scholarship, then updated scholarship applications are not available yet. Consult your counselor if you have more questions.
Local Scholarships With Own Application
Turn into Counseling Center
Click scholarship name; download
Complete, following all directions
Submit app per application's instructions.
April
Alvie C. Jeffres Memorial: For students with financial need who are committed to a higher education and achieve success through hard work and determination.
Ambrosiani-Pastore Foundation: For students with financial need with a GPA between 2.0 and 3.4. Prior winners can apply for renewal.
American Heritage Wildlife Foundation: For students pursuing a career in wildlife/natural resources and conservation.
Avista: For students who demonstrate character, community service, service to others, leadership and commitment.
Bismarck H. Turner: For students who attended a primary educational institution in Bonner County and demonstrate financial need.
Festival of Sandpoint Music : Scholarship for students planning to pursue music as a career.
Festival of Sandpoint Music - Charley Packard Songwriting: For any students that practice songwriting and are interested in music as a career.
Festival of Sandpoint music industry : For Bonner County gradating seniors who are planning on entering the music industry.
Festival of Sandpoint Vocal: For Bonner County high school vocalists. Priority will be given to graduating seniors who are continuing their studies in music.
Filling Station Youth Center: For students who graduate this year with a minimum 3.0 GPA.
Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness: No minimum GPA or commitment to higher education required.
Memorial Community Center: Must be a graduating high school student or currently enrolled college student residing between the boundaries of Pack River at Highway 200 and have volunteered at Memorial Community Center.
Norther Lights Inc. Education: Applicant or their parent/guardian must be a member of NLI. Applicant must be a graduating high school senior or a current undergraduate student at a college, university or vocational school.
Norther Lights Inc. Lineman: Applicant or their parent/guardian must be a member of NLI. Must be enrolling in line worker school.
Paul Mitchell-Coeur d'alene : For anyone interested in attending Paul Mitchell
Ponderay Rotary Aeronautical Scholarship : For any Bonner County senior who demonstrates Rotary values of "Service Beyond Self" and will be pursuing a job or degree in the aeronautical field.
Selkirk Association of REALTORS®: For students who have are children or grandchildren of a SAR member including sponsors and affiliates.
Area Scholarships With Own Applications
Turn in per organization's instructions
Click scholarship name; download
Complete both following all directions
Submit app per application's instructions
First Come First Serve - As early in spring as possible
Idaho Department of Labor: Low income youth planning to attend college in the fall. Click Income Guidelines to see income criteria.
October
Horatio Alger : For low-income students who have overcome a significant hardship and are planning to attend certain schools in Idaho.
January
Idaho Minority at Risk: Be a member of an ethnic minority historically underrepresented in higher education in Idaho (Native American, Afro–American, Hispanic–American decent).
Idaho Chapter American Fisheries Society - High School Scholarship
Awarded to an Idaho high school senior who is planning to attend any college or university in Idaho.
Idaho Governor's Cup: For a student who will be enrolled as a full time student in an academic or technical program at an Idaho college or university (and take the ACT or SAT if enrolling in an academic program).
Idaho State Board of Education Scholarships: These are for Idaho students who will attend Idaho colleges.
February
Boise State University Foundation Scholarships: Check out these BSU Scholarships!
Dave Kludt - ALC Services, Inc.: For a student who is related to an ALC member and planning to attend post-secondary school in natural resources.
Heartflite - ALC Services, Inc.: For a worthy student entering the medical field and preferably from the State of Idaho and from a logging family.
Idaho Friends of 4-H: For a 4-H member currently in 4-H and will will be attending an Idaho school.
Idaho Horse Council: Must demonstrate involvement with the horse industry in any fashion and graduated from an accredited Idaho high school.
Idaho School Boards Association: For a student whose parent is an active school board member in the State of Idaho for 3 years or more.
Johannesen Leadership: For a 4-H member demonstrating overall leadership and 4-H achievement.
Lillian Jeanette Craig Memorial: For a student involved in 4-H and a childhood cancer survivor or sibling of someone who has or has had childhood cancer.
O.M. Plummer Memorial: A 4-H member who has participated in livestock showing or judging beyond the county level.
Roy and Mamie Jones: For a 4-H member from the Northern District who has been in 4-H at least 5 years.
Society of Women Engineers: For female students pursuing a degree in engineering, or an enginnering-related field such as Computer Science or a hard science.
March
Alois and Marie Goldmann Memorial: Open to graduating high school seniors statewide who are attending an Idaho college or university.
Anne Veseth Memorial: For graduating high school seniors or current undergraduate college students attending or planning to attend a public or private, two- or four-year college or university in the state of Idaho and majoring or planning to major in Fire Ecology or Auto Mechanics. Or for any student who is also a current Wildland Firefighter majoring in any subject.
Doris L. Kenney Memorial: Applicants must be residents of Bonner County, Idaho, who are high school seniors or graduates. Academic achievement is the primary factor for selection. Consideration also given to candidates who have had their schooling interrupted for any of a variety of reasons, and applicants pursuing their academic preparation, making a career change or retraining in a different field of endeavor.
Idaho Association of Counties: For students with an elected official family member.
Idaho Farm Bureau Scholarship: For a student whose part of a Farm Bureau family. Deadline is March 9th at 5:00pm. Send or deliver to Ponderay office.
Idaho Nursing and Health Professional Scholarship: For students who have been accepted to an accredited Idaho nursing or health professions program, and can demonstrate financial need.
Idaho Power Company - Kevin Whittier Memorial : For students planning to attend any Idaho college, university or vocational-technical school full-time and majoring in engineering.
Hoyt & Edith Schuyler of Hope, Idaho Scholarship: Applicants must be graduates of Clark Fork High School with a minimum 2.5 GPA.
Lucille L. Hudon: Applicants must be entering their first year of post-secondary education, have maintained a 3.0 GPA (or its equivalent) in the last two years of secondary education.
Mike Crapo Math and Science Fund: For full-time first year students majoring in math, science, or engineering at a four-year college or university in the state of Idaho.
Opportunity Scholarship: The Opportunity Scholarships is a renewable award (up to four years) and requires a 2.7 unweighted GPA and need (demonstrated by the FAFSA).
Panhandle Piecemakers Quilt Guild: Any graduating high school or home-schooled senior or accredited University or Technical college freshman, sophomore or junior whose primary residence is Bonner County, ID.
Roger C. Sathre Memorial For Idaho high school graduates planning to enroll full-time in either a professional-technical degree leading to something less than Baccalaureate degree or a Baccalaureate degree in secondary education in a professional-technical area.
April
Northern Lights: For students whose family is a member of Northern Lights.
P1FCU: P1FCU Is open to all seniors with a P1FCU account.
Click below for more scholarship opportunities:
Local Scholarships With Common Application
Turn into Counseling Center
Click scholarship to download
Click Common App link to download.
Follow directions and complete both
Submit app per the application's instructions.
Common Scholarship Application
April
4H Bonner county horse : Must be enrolled in Bonner county 4H horse program.
4H Bonner county leaders council : Currently enrolled in Bonner county 4H and been a member for 4 years.
4H Bonner county McNall scholarship : Member of Bonner county 4H min. of 3 years and demonstrate leadership skills.
4H Bonner county RK : Member of Bonner county 4H for a min. of 2 years and be going into a CTE program. Includes: nursing, dental hygiene, and lab services.
Angels Over Sandpoint: For students who have overcome personal obstacles and demonstrate financial need.
Angels Over Sandpoint Hutter NIC : For students who have overcome personal obstacles and demonstrate financial need. Focus on NIC, CTE, and trades
Angels Over Sandpoint/The Festival at Sandpoint Arts Scholarship: This years 2024 Scholarship is focused on: Visual Arts.
Avista: For students who demonstrate character, community service, service to others, leadership and commitment.
Bonner County 4-H Leaders Council: For students who have completed at least 4 years of 4-H and are currently enrolled in a Bonner County 4-H program.
Bonner County R.K. 4-H: For any Bonner County senior who is involved in 4-H and entering a Career Technical field.
Bonner County Fair Grounds-John Porter Memorial: For any Bonner County senior pursuing a post-secondary education.
Bonner County Sportsmen's Consideration for three different scholarships. Open for vocational trade school and college. Focus on outdoors and sportsmanship.
Clark Fork Boosters Club: Open to any Clark Fork High School senior graduating this year.
Community Assistance League: Based on academic achievement, personal goals, motivation, school and community involvement, financial need and general application appearance.
Darby & Amber Campbell Memorial: For students who have shown actions that support human rights and the ability to express in words ideals in harmony with the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force mission.
Don McCormick Memorial: For students who are pursing a field in the health sciences with a 2.5 or better GPA.
Eagles Lodge Aerie #589 Ladies Auxiliary: For students who will be attending any type post-secondary education in the Pacific Northwest.
Elks Community: For students who have demonstrated community involvement and continuing his/her post-secondary education.
Erik Bruhjell Memorial sponsored by the Bonner County Democrats: For any Bonner County Senior graduating this year pursuing post-secondary education.
Erik Robin Bruhjell Memorial sponsored by the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force: For any Bonner County Senior graduating this year pursuing post-secondary education.
Farmin-Stidwell Elementary PIE: For students who attended Farmin Elementary for at least three years.
Hope Community Church: For graduating seniors who live in the Hope area - between Denton Slough and Pack River.
Juneau Family: For any Bonner County senior who is interested in pursuing a career pertaining to people with special needs. Preference will be given to Sandpoint High School seniors or students attending a Christian college/university.
Kootenai Elementary Logan Temple Scholarship: For any LPOSD senior who attended Kootenai Elementary for at least three years.
Lake Pend Oreille Education Association: For students pursing a career in secondary or elementary education or counseling OR a child of an LPOEA member pursuing any post-secondary major.
Lake Pend Oreille Idaho Club: For students who want to pursue post-secondary education in outdoor recreation, fisheries, wildlife, ecology, environmental science, etc.
Leonard and Helen Anderson Award: For students planning to continue their education after high school.
Life Choices Pregnancy Center: For any Bonner County senior pursuing a post-secondary education.
Linda Reed Scholarship Fund: Clark Fork High School in Clark Fork, Idaho established this fund in 2013 after receiving a gift from school supporter Linda Reed's estate. Linda wanted her gift to benefit graduating seniors.
Marine Corps William E. Barber Memorial: For students who have immediate family members who have served or are serving in the United States Marines Corps.
Northside School: For students who attended Northside Elementary.
Panhandle Piecemakers Quilt Guild : Open to any high school senior graduating this year in Bonner County including public, private and homeschool students.
Panida Theater: For students with an interest pursing a career or involvement in theater, film , music, or other aspects of the performing arts.
Patrick Orton "Live Your Dreams": For Bonner County students who want to live their dreams.
Pend Oreille Arts Council: For any Bonner County senior who has a passion in the performing or visual arts.
PEO Chapter CA & V: Philanthropic Educational Association, Open to any girl graduating from any Bonner County high school. Must demonstrate faith, love, purity, justice and truth.
PONDERAY rotary: For any Bonner County senior who demonstrates Rotary values of "Service Beyond Self" with an emphasis on community service and volunteerism.
Portz-Wanek: For students with at least a 3.75 GPA during his/her senior year (cumulative or by semester).
Portz-Wanek Technical: For students with at least a 2.5 GPA during his/her senior year (cumulative or by semester) and planning to attend a professional technical school.
Rotary Club of Sandpoint: For students who demonstrate Rotary values of "Service Beyond Self" with an emphasis on community service and volunteerism.
Rotary Club of Sandpoint CTE : For any Sandpoint HS, Clark Fork HS, or LPO seniors who demonstrate Rotary values of "Service Beyond Self" with an emphasis on community service and volunteerism and are pursing a CTE education.
Sagle Memorial: For students who attended Sagle Elementary for at least 3 years
Sandpoint Lions Club Memorial: For students pursing a post-secondary education.
Southside Elementary: For students who attended Southside Elementary for at least 3 years.
Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 890: For students who have a Veteran, Active, Retired, or Reservist family member that has served or is serving in the U.S. Military.
VFW post 2453 : For Bonner county students who are a family member of a Veteran, Active, Retired, Reservist that has served or is currently serving in the U.S. Military.
Washington Elementary Cougar Pride For students who attended Washington Elementary for at least 3 years.
William D. Martin- The American Legion Scholarship: Open to any Bonner County senior; applicant must have an immediate family member who is a veteran.
Women Honoring Women: For female students who demonstrate WHW qualities and values.