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Richardson County, Nebraska: 15 local scholarships and counting

We have found 15 scholarships limited to students in Richardson County, from 3 local sponsors. 11 of them are tied to a school district, so the high school your student attends matters here. We keep searching and add new local scholarships as we find them, so this number grows.

$23,000or more
in scholarships written only for students in or from Richardson County. That adds up the 13 of 15 scholarships that publish an amount, one winner each; the rest do not say. Some give more than one.
3
local sponsors, including 2 community foundations and 1 school or district foundation
17th
of Nebraska's 93 counties for local scholarships
17
more state scholarships and grants limited to Nebraska students

3 big ones to start with

3 of the 15, picked for size and for a deadline you can plan around. The other 12, with every rule, deadline and what each one asks for, are on your student's board.

Thomas C. Woods, Jr. ScholarshipDeadline March 15, 2027
$5,000
Telephone Pioneer Association and Museum ScholarshipDeadline March 15, 2027
$4,000
Reserve Officers' Training Corps Scholarship (Falls City Educational Foundation)Deadline not posted yet · one school or district only
$4,000
See the other 12 and which ones your student fits

Who gives in Richardson County

Each sponsor counted once, by kind. A community foundation often runs dozens of separate funds through one application, so it can be one sponsor with many scholarships.

Who gives locallySponsorsScholarships
Community foundations214
School district and school foundations11
All local sponsors315

A school district with its own scholarships

Falls City Public Schools has 11 scholarships only its own students can apply for. If your student goes to school there, the board asks which one and adds them.

When the deadlines fall

Only 2 of these have a posted date yet; many local sponsors publish the next round only a few weeks before it closes. Across the 2,211 local scholarships we track nationwide that do post a date, most fall in February and March. The time to get ready is the fall before.

How Richardson County compares

That is about 3 times as many as the typical Nebraska county, which has 5, and ranks 17th of Nebraska's 93 counties. On top of the local list, Nebraska students can look at 17 state scholarships and grants limited to the state but not to one county, and the national ones. Across Nebraska we have found 461 local scholarships in 93 counties. See every Nebraska county.

Counties next to Richardson County

All 6 counties that border Richardson County have local scholarships in our catalog too. Some sponsors cover several counties, and a student who lives in one county and goes to school in another can sometimes apply on both sides.

Nemaha County, KS (10)Brown County, KS (6)Nemaha County (4)Pawnee County (4)Holt County, MO (3)Doniphan County, KS (2)

What a public college in Nebraska costs

A public four-year college in Nebraska averaged $8,862 in tuition and fees and $11,320 for a dorm and meals in 2022-23, about $20,182 a year before any aid, less than the national public average of $22,389. That is the newest federal figure published for every state, so today's prices run higher. The homepage works out what is left after Nebraska's own state aid for your student's grades and scores, college by college.

The other 12 are on the board.

Answer a few questions and see how many of the 14,000+ scholarships we track fit your student, local ones included. Their own board, with every name, rule and deadline, is $149 for the school year.

See which ones your student fits

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Questions families ask

Why only 3 here?

The full list, with each one's rules and deadlines, is the product. We read each one from the sponsor's own page and recheck it on a schedule, and that work is what the $149 board pays for. The 3 above show the list is real; the board shows which of the 15 your student fits.

Does every student in Richardson County fit all 15?

No. Most local scholarships add their own rules on top of where you live: one high school, a GPA floor, a planned major, a parent who is a member or a customer. The board asks about those once and shows the ones your student fits, with what each one still asks you to check.

How current is this?

Counted from our catalog on November 2, 2026. We add new local scholarships every week, so the numbers here usually go up.

Counts, amounts and deadline months come from each sponsor's own published rules and can change without notice. Totals add one winner of each scholarship; sponsors that do not publish an amount are not counted in the dollar total. A deadline month is from the most recent cycle we could find. College prices are estimates to plan with, not a quote. Confirm anything you act on with the sponsor or the college.