Scholarships
The Wisconsin Bankers Foundation offers two scholarships to Wisconsin students annually.
Annual Scholarship Opportunities:
- Agricultural Banking Scholarship (click here to apply)
- $1,500 each (two winners selected)
- Criteria:
- Applicant must be a current student pursuing a career in agricultural banking.
- Applicant must be currently enrolled at an accredited Wisconsin public or private, non-profit college, university, or technical college.
- Deadline: November 17, 2025
- Spring Scholarship (check back January, 2026)
- $2,000 each (four winners selected)
- Criteria:
- Applicant must demonstrate academic, community, and pre-professional (job or internship) achievement and be able to articulate the importance of financial literacy. A career goal in the financial services industry will strengthen the application but is not required.
- Applicant must be a Wisconsin high school senior, an employee of a WBA-member bank, or the dependent of a WBA-member bank employee.
- Applicant must be currently enrolled or enrolling in fall at an accredited Wisconsin public or private, non-profit college, university, or technical college.
Congratulations, WBF Scholarship winners!
- Kaylee Pingel, UW-Platteville, 2024 WBF Agricultural Banking Scholarship
- Ian Schwartzlow, UW-Whitewater, 2024 WBF Agricultural Banking Scholarship
- Ava Kok, Marquette University, 2025 WBF Spring Scholarship
- Celine C. Kronsted, UW-Madison, 2025 WBF Spring Scholarship
- Logan Schultz, UW-Madison, 2025 WBF Spring Scholarship
- Bryana Williams, UW-Green Bay, 2025 WBF Spring Scholarship
Grants and Gifts
The Wisconsin Bankers Foundation is pleased to support non-profit organizations whose work aligns with our mission of empowering the financial decisions of consumers through education and research. The Foundation offers limited grants and gifts to registered 501(c)(3) organizations and certain government instrumentalities that assist in providing the public with the resources and knowledge to make sound financial decisions.
The Foundation’s 2025–2026 fiscal year grant recipients will be notified by Tuesday, July 15th, 2025. Award monies will be distributed by Tuesday, September 30th, 2025.
Please use the grant application form (link below). Submit the form and supporting documents to questions@wisbank.com