Don Diego Scholarship Foundation

Apply Today

2025 Don Diego College Scholarships

Applications are available now!

Deadline to Apply: Midnight on April 15, 2025

Apply Today

Meet Our Top Four 2024 Scholarship Recipients!

Ruby Perez

Escondido
$5,000 Karetas Family Endowment Employee Scholarship
$5,000/year CGW Four-Year Scholarship
Cal Poly SLO
Biological Sciences
These scholarships bring me one step closer to accomplishing great things in life; encouraging me to work even harder toward achieving my goals. I want to share my passion for helping others in the world, in hopes of building a better one.

Nicholas Usher

Escondido
$5,000 Ranglas Family Endowment Exhibitor/Participant Scholarship
$5,000/year Liss Family Four-Year Scholarship
MIT
Mechanical Engineering
I have enjoyed sharing my enthusiasm for STEM and am so grateful for the support from the Don Diego Scholarship Foundation because it will help me realize my dream.

Ava Raugust

Santee
$5,000 22nd DAA Board of Directors FFA Scholarship
$5,000 Spanjian Family Endowment Scholarship
UC Berkeley
Civil Engineering
This financial support means the stress of tuition can be alleviated and I can focus on succeeding in engineering, agriculture, and language. I have many exciting plans for the future, and now I have the means to fully pursue them. Thank you, Don Diego!

Zoe Prescott

Encinitas
$5,000 Chicken Charlie 4-H Scholarship
$1,000 Don Diego Alumni Club Scholarship
UC Davis
Animal Science
Winning these two scholarships means so much to me, as they relieve some of the financial weight while I pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a livestock veterinarian. I am extremely grateful to Don Diego for the opportunity.

Don Diego Scholarship Foundation

2024 Annual Report

Download

A Storied History

Download

See All Scholars

Want to Learn More about the Scholars?

In 2024, 26 incredible ambitious, idealistic Diego students sharing $88,000 in Don Diego scholarships headed to colleges across the country to pursue their goals.

See All Scholars

Who is the Don Diego Scholarship Foundation?

The Don Diego Scholarship Foundation promotes education in a fair and fiscally sound manner by providing scholarships to deserving San Diego area graduating high school seniors and graduates who are associated with activities at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, including the San Diego County Fair. The Don Diego Scholarship Foundation also provides grants for agricultural education.

Recent News

Enjoy Our Programs

Your Endowed Named Scholarship will endure for generations to come.

Commemorate a special person or occasion with a personalized brick.

Make a donation to help us continue to award scholarships.

Follow Don Diego

Stay up-to-date with achievements of current and past scholarship recipients … and all things Don Diego!

Follow us on Facebook

Follow us on Instagram

Hop on PlantGrowEat Bus Sponsorship

Become a part of rich, ongoing Don Diego traditions at the Del Mar Fairgrounds.

Purchase a Personalized Legacy Brick

Become a part of rich, ongoing Don Diego traditions at the Del Mar Fairgrounds.

Are You a Past Scholarship Recipient?

Join the Don Diego Alumni Club!

2025 Don Diego College Scholarships

2024 Don Diego Scholarships

Meet Our Top Four 2024 Scholarship Recipients!

Ruby Perez

Nicholas Usher

Ava Raugust

Zoe Prescott

Don Diego Scholarship Foundation

2024 Annual Report

A Storied History

Want to Learn More about the Scholars?

Who is the Don Diego Scholarship Foundation?

Recent News

Philanthropic Del Mar Organizations Join Don Diego Scholarship Foundation to Give Title 1 Elementary Students a Growing Adventure at the Fairgrounds