Scholarships for students California. Some scholarships specifically open to California students, and others give preference to students in California.

Chicana/Latina Foundation Scholarship Program
Sponsor: Chicana/Latina Foundation
Amount: $1,500
Closing Date: March 31, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to Chicana/Latina women who are enrolled in an accredited college, university, or community college in Northern California.

Hearthstone Housing Foundation Scholarship
Sponsor: Hearthstone Housing Foundation
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: March 31, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to students between the ages of 16-25 years of age who reside at a Hearthstone Housing Foundation property or in a county where a Hearthstone property is located (specific location details available on website) and who can demonstrate financial need, or come from a low-income household.

JVS Scholarship Program
Sponsor: Jewish Vocational Service (JVS)
Amount: Up to $10,000
Closing Date: March 31, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to Jewish students who are residents of Los Angeles County (California) and are incoming or current college student.

Los Angeles Firemen’s Relief Association Scholarships
Sponsor: Los Angeles Firemen’s Relief Association
Amount: Up to $25,000
Closing Date: March 31, 2023
Description: Scholarships are open to eligible dependents of active and retired Relief Association members.

Markowski-Leach Scholarships
Sponsor: Markowski-Leach Scholarship Fund
Amount: $2,000
Closing Date: March 31, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current undergraduate and graduate students at select institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer.

Eula Mae Jett Scholarship Plan
Sponsor: Legal Secretaries, Incorporated
Amount: UP to $2,000
Closing Date: April 1, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to high school seniors, current college students, and career change students who are legal residents of California and attending a school within the state of California. Applicant must plan on pursuing a career in the legal field.

Mario Cugia Italian Studies First Year Scholarship
Sponsor: Italian Catholic Federation
Amount: $500
Closing Date: April 1, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors who are Roman Catholic and of Italian Descent and live within the Roman Catholic Dioceses of Arizona, California, Illinois, and Nevada. Applicant must be majoring in Italian Studies.

Robert E. Thunen Memorial Scholarship
Sponsor: Illuminating Engineering Society (IES)
Amount: $2,500
Closing Date: April 1, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to full-time students who desire to study illumination as a career. Applicant must be a junior, senior or graduate student in an accredited four-year college or university located in Northern California, Nevada, Oregon or Washington.

Bank of the Sierra Scholarship
Sponsor: Bank of the Sierra | Asian Pacific Community Fund
Amount: $1,500
Closing Date: April 3, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to high school seniors who reside in the counties of Fresno, Kern, Kings, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Tulare, or the Santa Clarita area of Los Angeles County.

Wong: Helen and L.S. Wong Memorial Scholarship
Sponsor: Asian Pacific Fund
Amount: Up to $3,000
Closing Date: April 3, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to Asian heritage (at least 50%) incoming and current college students from the Fairfield-Suisun communities (California). Applicant must have a least a 2.8 GPA.

Best Formulations Scholarship
Sponsor: Best Formulations | Asian Pacific Community Fund
Amount: $5,000
Closing Date: April 3, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors who reside in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside, or Ventura Counties (California). Applicant must have at least a 3.2 GPA.

Cathay Bank Foundation Scholarship
Sponsor: Cathay Bank Foundation | Asian Pacific Community Fund
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: April 3, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors who reside in California, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Texas, or Washington and plan to attend a college in one of those states. Applicant must have at least a 3.0 GPA and have a household income at or below the Low Income Level.

Chao Family Foundation Scholarship
Sponsor: Chao Family Foundation | Asian Pacific Community Fund
Amount: $4,000
Closing Date: April 3, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to high school seniors who reside in Los Angeles or Orange County, California. Applicant must have at least a 3.2 GPA and be planning to attend a UC or CSU as a 1st year student in the Fall of 2022.

First General Bank Scholarship
Sponsor: First General Bank | Asian Pacific Community Fund
Amount: $2,000
Closing Date: April 3, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to high school seniors in Los Angeles County or Orange County, California, Applicant must plan to attend a four-year institution or college in the state of California and must have at least of 3.0 GPA.

Harold J. West Memorial Scholarship
Sponsor: Asian Pacific Community Fund
Amount: $5,000
Closing Date: April 3, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to parents attending or wanting to attend college while working part-time. Applicant must have at least a 3.2 GPA and are/will be attending a University of California (UC), California State University (CSU), or community college in Southern California.

Mega Bank Scholarship Program
Sponsor: Mega Bank | Asian Pacific Community Fund
Amount: $5,000
Closing Date: April 3, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to high school seniors who reside in Los Angeles or Orange County (California) with plans to attend a California College. Applicant must have a GPA of at least 3.0 and have a household income at or below the County Low Income Level.

Preferred Bank Scholarship
Sponsor: Preferred Bank | Asian Pacific Community Fund
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: April 3, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to high school seniors who reside in California (Los Angeles County, Orange County, or San Francisco) or New York (Flushing, Queens).

Royal Business Bank Scholarship Program
Sponsor: Royal Business Bank | Asian Pacific Community Fund
Amount: $2,000
Closing Date: April 3, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to high school seniors who reside in the New York City area (New York County, King County, Queens County, or Richmond County), Southern California (Los Angeles County, Orange County, Ventura County), Nevada (Clark County), and Illinois (Cook County). Applicant must be planning on attending a California, Nevada, or New York college, have at least a 3.0 GPA, and have a household income at or below the County Low Income Level.

State Bank of India (California) Scholarship
Sponsor: State Bank of India (California) | Asian Pacific Community Fund
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: April 3, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to high school seniors who reside in Santa Clara County, Fresno County, Los Angeles County, San Diego County, and Alameda County (Cities of Fremont, Newark, and Union City. Applicant must have at least a 2.8 GPA and plan to be attending a California institution of higher education.

Carl N. & Margaret Karcher Founders’ Scholarship
Sponsor: Carl’s Jr.
Amount: Up to $10,000
Closing Date: April 5, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to students, age 21 and under, who reside in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington or Wyoming. Application must be a high school senior or graduate who plans to enroll for the first time in full-time undergraduate study at an accredited two-year or four-year college, university, or vocational-technical school for the entire upcoming academic year.

California Association of Realtors Scholarships
Sponsor: California Association of Realtors
Amount: Up to $4,000
Closing Date: April 7, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to California students pursuing a degree for a career in the real estate field.

CAA Youth Scholarship
Sponsor: California Alarm Association (CAA)
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: April 14, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors in California who will be attending an accredited four-year college or university in the fall. Applicant’s parent must be a full-time paid, active duty law enforcement officer, firefighter, paramedic, or EMT (public sector).

Mitchell/Tufts Scholarship
Sponsor: The Dallas Foundation
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: April 14, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current college students who are members or persons active in the life of a Presbyterian church in the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) In North Central Texas, or in Los Angeles, California, and who are students of promise and can demonstrate financial need.

Emily M. Hewitt Memorial Scholarship
Sponsor: Calaveras Big Trees Association
Amount: $3,000
Closing Date: April 15, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled full-time in an accredited California post-secondary educational institution whose educational career goal coincides in communicating and interpreting nature’s wonder. Applicant must be pursuing degrees in environmental protection, forestry, wildlife and fisheries biology, parks and recreation, park management, environmental law and public policy, environmental art, or California history.

Incight Scholarship
Sponsor: Incight
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: April 15, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school students and current college students who will be enrolled during the upcoming academic year. Applicant must be a resident of Washington, Oregon, or California and have any documented disability as defined by the ADA, DSM-V, IDEA, or other governing body.

NCJW | LA Scholarship Program
Sponsor: National Council of Jewish Women | Los Angeles
Amount: Up to $2,000
Closing Date: April 15, 2023
Description: Scholarships are open to students who live and attend school in the Greater Los Angeles area, including Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and Ventura Counties. Applicant must be trying to better their lives through education in the aftermath of trauma, loss and other setbacks. There are scholarships open to all majors and specific scholarships for non-traditional students, parents, nursing majors, education majors, and Film/Television/Cinema/Theater majors.

Tang Scholarship
Sponsor: Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: April 17, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to self-identified Asian/Pacific Islander students (at least 25% API ancestry) who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender and have/will graduate from a high school in one of the nine Bay Area counties (California).

UNICO National Scholarships
Sponsor: UNICO
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: April 18, 2023
Description: Scholarships are open to graduating high school seniors and current undergraduate and graduate students who live in a state of an active UNICO Chapter. Most scholarships are open to students of Italian heritage, but there are some open to all ethnicities. In addition to general scholarships, there are scholarships open specifically to Engineering, Fine Arts, Italian Studies, Medical, Nursing, and Science majors.

Celebrate the West High School Art Competition
Sponsor: Western Governors’ Association
Amount: Up to $1,500
Closing Date: April 30, 2023
Description: Competition is open to high school students (grades 9-12) in public, private, charter, and alternative schools. Home-schooled students in that age group also may enter. Student must be in a school in a WGA member state: Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, California, Colorado, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Applicant must submit a two-dimensional art piece on what their state means to them.

SBS Scholarships
Sponsor: Swiss Benevolent Society of San Francisco
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: April 30, 2023
Description: Scholarships are open to incoming or current college students who are of Swiss descent and reside in a Northern California county.

CRAEF Scholarship
Sponsor: California Restaurant Association
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: May 1, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents who are California residents. Applicant must be a high school senior or current college student enrolled in a minimum of nine credit hours at an accredited post secondary school in a foodservice related program. Applicant must have a minimum number of hours of industry-related work experience. Applicant can attend a school out-of-state.

Race for Education Scholarships
Sponsor: The Race for Education
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: May 1, 2023
Description: Scholarships are open to students pursuing a field of study within the equine, animal science or agricultural industry and/or whose family is employed in the equine industry. Applicant must be 24 years old or younger and have at least a 2.85 GPA. In addition to the general scholarships, there are scholarships open specifically to students in California, New York, and Washington state.

PFLAG South Orange County Scholarship
Sponsor: PFLAG South Orange County
Amount: Up to $2,500
Closing Date: May 6, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors and college/vocational students who are residents (or children of residents) of Orange County between the ages of 17-24 and who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, or queer/questioning, and to straight allies.

California Groundwater Association Scholarships
Sponsor: California Groundwater Association
Amount: Up to $2,500
Closing Date: May 15, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to California residents with an interest in ground water technology. Applicant must submit a 500 word essay demonstrating their interest in ground water technology.

Save San Francisco Cyclists Scholarship
Sponsor: Law Offices of Matthew J. Quinlan
Amount: $500
Closing Date: May 31, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors who are Bay Area residents (San Francisco or city within 50 miles thereof). Applicant must submit an essay describing a new and creative way to reduce bicycle accidents or improve cyclists safety in San Francisco.

LNESC Emergency Scholarship Fund
Sponsor: LULAC National Educational Service Centers, Inc. | Macy’s
Amount: Up to $500
Closing Date: Rolling
Description: Scholarship is open to students facing economic hardship, such as change in family income/support, loss of job, death of an immediate family member, natural disaster, pending eviction or home foreclosure, burglary or fire. Applicant must be a resident of California, Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, or Texas and enrolled full-time in an accredited college or university with at least a 3.0 GPA.

Macy’s Emergency Scholarship Fund
Sponsor: Macy’s | LULAC National Educational Services Center, Inc.
Amount: Up to $500
Closing Date: Rolling
Description: Scholarship is open to deserving students facing economic hardship and immediate monetary need that, if not met, could result in an inability to complete classes or a degree program. Emergency financial need resulting from the following will qualify students from funding: change in family income/support, loss of job, death of an immediate family member, natural disaster, pending eviction or home foreclosure, burglary, or fire. Applicant must be a resident of California, Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Puerto Rico, or Texas.

CalCPA Scholarship
Sponsor: CalCPA Education Foundation
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: Varies
Description: Scholarships are open to students with an interest in pursing professional careers in the accounting field. Applicant must be enrolled at an institution of higher learning in the state of California and must be a member of CalCPA (student membership is free). CalCPA chapters have different deadlines for scholarship – see website for details.