The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans program honors the contributions of immigrants and children of immigrants to the United States.
Donor Name: The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 10/30/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Each year, they invest in the graduate education of 30 New Americans—immigrants and children of immigrants—who are poised to make significant contributions to US society, culture, or their academic field.
Funding Information
Each Fellow receives up to $90,000 in financial support over two years, and they join a lifelong community of New American Fellows.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for the 2026 Fellowship, you must meet the following requirements
- New American Status – Whether you were born in the United States or abroad, your birth parents must have both been born outside of the US as non-US citizens, and both parents must not have been eligible for US citizenship at the time of their respective births. If you were born in the US then you must be the child of two immigrants. If you were born abroad then you must be a naturalized US citizen, possess a valid green card, have been granted refugee or asylee status in the US, or have graduated from both high school and college in the United States (this final category is inclusive of DACA recipients and applicants who will graduate from college by the Fall of 2026).
- Academic Standing – You should be planning to be enrolled full time in an eligible, accredited, professional or graduate degree program at a US university for the full 2026-27 academic year. Applicants who have a previous graduate degree or who are in a joint-degree program are eligible. Online programs are now eligible. Ineligible programs: Executive graduate programs, part-time programs, joint bachelors/master’s programs where the bachelor’s is not received by the spring of 2026, certificate programs, post-baccalaureate programs, graduate programs that are not in the United States, and graduate programs that are not fully accredited.
- Age – You must not have reached or passed your 31st birthday as of the application deadline. There is no minimum age requirement.
For more information, visit TPDSFNA.
