Since 2016, the American Family Insurance Championship has raised more than $17 million for charity. Through the Steve Stricker American Family Insurance Foundation, more than 840 grants have been distributed to organizations that support strong families and healthy kids.

Each year in August, the Steve Stricker American Family Insurance hosts a grant cycle when nonprofit organizations serving communities in south-central and southeastern Wisconsin can apply for grant funding. Organizations and programs should be focused on building strong families and/or healthy kids. Awardees are notified in December of each year.

Since 2019, American Family Insurance and the Steve Stricker American Family Insurance Foundation have committed to funding scholarships for local high school students.

The scholarship application is available in January each year.

The scholarship program awards two deserving local high school seniors who meet the criteria and live in the Wisconsin counties of Dane or Rock. This year’s recipients will each receive a $10,000 scholarship ($2,500 per year up to a total of four years).

Scholarship criteria for applicants is as follows:

• Student must be high school senior, and
• Earn at least a 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale, and
• Demonstrate participation in the game of golf through competitive participation, recreational participation, employment at a golf course or retailer, caddying at a golf course, and/or by volunteering at a golf tournament, and
• Student must also display exemplary character, leadership and community service

The Steve Stricker American Family Foundation was founded to build strong families and healthy kids, empowering them to chase and achieve their dreams.