The 2025 Kitchen Cabinet Kings Entrepreneur Scholarship is now open for applications.

The company will award $2,500 in the form of a check made payable to the winner. 

Launched in 2016, the scholarship supports young entrepreneurs in their higher education journey. With the scholarship, the company hopes that an aspiring entrepreneur can focus more on developing and pursuing entrepreneurial ideas and worry a little less on how they will afford tuition. 

“Entrepreneurship is all about taking risks and figuring it out as you go. This scholarship is here to help students take that first leap,” said Andrew Saladino, co-founder of Kitchen Cabinet Kings. 

Saladino, who is a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), knows firsthand what it means to receive a scholarship when you are in financial need. If he had not received a generous scholarship as an undergraduate student, he would not have been able to attend his alma mater New York University.

“A scholarship changed my life — now I want to pay that forward to the next generation of entrepreneurs,” Saladino said. “What excites me most about this scholarship is the possibility that one student’s idea could grow into something that changes lives, including their own.”

The scholarship is open to current undergraduate and graduate students and incoming freshmen who are U.S. citizens and are enrolled at an accredited U.S. college, university or trade school for the 2025-26 academic year.

To apply, students must write an essay of no more than 300 words on the following prompt: “How will cryptocurrency and blockchain technology change the way small businesses operate in 2025 and beyond?”

Click here to apply for the scholarship.

Applications are due by December 31, 2025.