The Burger King Foundation is a U.S. based 501(c)(3) public nonprofit that believes without education you limit your potential to be your own way. Inspired by Burger King Restaurants co-founder, Jim McLamore, The Burger King Foundation believes in empowerment through education and lending a helping hand, when needed, thus allowing you to live life your way. To this end, we supply emergency relief to our employees and provide essential resources to help the students of today and the scholars of tomorrow discover their full potential. Through the BK? Scholars program, we’ve awarded nearly $64 million to over 55,000 deserving students across North America. Our goal is to grant one scholarship for every BK® restaurant, that’s more than $7 million each year!
Scholarships range from $1,000 to $60,000 and are intended to offset the cost of attending college or post-secondary vocational/technical school. Recipients are selected through an application process that takes into consideration their grade point average (GPA), work experience, extracurricular activities, community service, and financial need. In 2025 alone, the Foundation awarded over $4.4 million in scholarships to over 4,000 students.
Application Process
Visit Burger King Foundation on burgerking.scholarsapply.org to apply
Start by clicking on the Apply button. You will need to create a username and password to register for a student account. You will be notified through an email validation process before an account is created for you. You must use a valid email address. The final step in creating your account is to complete the information requested in the student profile.
After your student account is created and you have provided profile information, you will have access to the application. During the application process, you will be able to leave the site by clicking on the Log Out or Save and Log Out links located on the site. In order to log in, you must enter your username and password as provided when registering for a student account.
You may wish to gather the following information that will be needed for the application process:
A list of your work experiences and involvement in school and community activities
A current (official or unofficial) transcript of grades
BURGER KING® employee information if your application is to be affiliated with an employee
Your family’s financial information. A copy of your parents’ most recent tax form filed with the IRS or Revenue Canada will be helpful to look at when filing out that section of the application.
Carefully review your application before submission. We recommend that you print a hard copy of your application to retain for your records. Printed copies of the online application should not be sent to Scholarship America or BURGER KING® Foundation.
All application pages with required fields must be completed in the format described in order to submit the application. Standard capitalization (Jill Smith, 101 Main Street, New York, NY) must be used when entering data. Once the application is submitted, no further revisions can be made.
Do I Need To Submit Any Documents?
Yes! A current, complete high school or college transcript of grades must be uploaded with your application. Grade reports are not accepted. Unofficial or online transcripts must display student name, school name, grades and credit hours for each course and term the course was taken.
Your application is not complete unless submitted electronically on or before December 15, 2025. If 30,000 applications are received prior to December 15, the application will no longer be available.
Applicants are solely responsible for gathering and submitting all information necessary to the application process. Scholarship America will email acknowledgment of receipt of all submitted applications. Applications found to be incomplete as of the application deadline or upon receipt of 30,000 submissions will not be processed. All information submitted is reviewed only by Scholarship America. Limited recipient information will be shared with representatives of Burger King Company LLC and/or BURGER KING® Foundation and respective donors/franchisees or other designees.
For more information, kindly visit Burger King Foundation scholarship webpage.
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