The George and Mary Kremer Foundation

The George and Mary Kremer Foundation was created in 1985 to assist schools with children from financially challenged families to receive a Catholic elementary school education. Currently, the Kremer Foundation provides scholarships to 373 schools in 37 states representing 76 arch/dioceses.

The goal of the Kremer Foundation is to provide these children with the opportunity for a quality, Christ-centered education. The Foundation's grants are given to Catholic elementary schools only in the continental United States. (The Foundation does not extend a tuition grant to individual families). Grants provided to 373 schools for the 2009-2010 school year will provide tuition assistance to over 5,000 students. Since the Foundation's beginning over 30,000 students have benefitted from the Foundation's grants. To date, the Kremer Foundation has awarded over $28 million dollars in tuition grants.

The principal of participating schools selects the students who receive the tuition assistance based primarily on financial need, without regard to race, gender, nationality, citizenship, or religion.