Community Foundation for Mississippi Scholarship Awards

The Community Foundation for Mississippi manages more than a dozen individual scholarship and award funds for graduating high school seniors, many tied to specific Hinds, Madison, Rankin, or other Mississippi counties and schools. One shared online application matches each student to every fund they qualify for, so there is no need to apply separately to each one. Awards have ranged from about $2,500 to $10,000 and go toward tuition and other college costs at a Mississippi school. A few funds carry their own field-of-study or school requirements, so it is worth reading each fund's guidelines inside the portal.

Eligibility

DemographicsOpen to graduating Mississippi high school seniors through one shared application; many of the individual funds are further restricted to specific counties (Hinds, Madison, Rankin, Warren) or high schools in the Jackson area.

Applying

More than $170,000 is awarded across the Foundation's scholarship and award funds each year; individual awards have ranged from about $2,500 to $10,000.