The American Legion Legacy Scholarship

The American Legion Legacy Scholarship is a needs-based scholarship designed to fulfill a financial gap remaining after all federal and state educational grants/scholarships available to an eligible applicant have been utilized. The scholarship supports children, adopted children, or stepchildren of U.S. military members who died while on active duty on or after September 11, 2001, as well as children of post-9/11 veterans having been assigned a combined disability rating of 50 percent or greater by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Each needs-based scholarship provides up to $20,000 for children of the fallen, and up to $5,000 for children of the disabled for undergraduate or post-graduate college. Recipients may reapply for additional annual awards up to six times. The 2025-26 tuition is capped at $28,937.09 which is the maximum amount the VA will pay out per academic year. In 2024, the program awarded 506 scholarships totaling $1,645,558. Since inception, the program has awarded 1,331 scholarships totaling $7,892,400.