The Fisher House Foundation’s Scholarships for Military Children program is now accepting applications from Military B.R.A.T.s for the 2025-2026 academic year.
The program, entering its 25th year, recognizes the contributions of U.S. military families to the wellbeing of service members.
The Fisher House Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping U.S. service members, veterans and their families, administers the program. More than $24 million in scholarships have been awarded over the last 24 years, selected from a pool of over 123,270 applicants.
For the scholarship year 2025-26, the foundation will award 500 scholarship grants of $2,000 each. The selection process will begin immediately following the application deadline of Feb. 12, 2025 at 9 p.m. PST.
Requirements include completing the application; submission of the student’s official transcript indicating a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale for high school applicants, or college transcript indicating a cumulative minimum GPA of 2.5 or above on a 4.0 scale for students already enrolled in college; and a 500-word essay. The subject of this year’s essay is listed at the militaryscholar.org website under “Scholarships for Military Children.”
All of the rules and requirements for the Scholarships for Military Children program, as well as links to frequently asked questions are available at militaryscholar.org.
