Grants
The Foundation’s annual grant application and guidelines are announced in February, applications accepted from February-June, with awards made in early August each year.
We are pleased to report a record year of grants awarded from the Foundation’s unrestricted resources in 2018 – $82,561. Congratulations to this year’s grant recipients!
Anaconda Catholic Community: | $1,800.00 | Paint and replace the flooring in the Youth Group/RE room. |
Blessed Trinity Catholic Community: | $1,800.00 | Parish Lenten retreat with presenter from outside the diocese |
Butte Catholic Community North: | $4,500.00 | Replace and update all lighting fixtures in the Immaculate Conception Church. |
Carroll EWB Guatemala Project: | $4,785.27 | Continuing to retrofit the Library Building in Santo Tomas la Union. |
Catholic Campus Ministry, submitted by Christ the King Parish: | $4,500.00 | Vocations retreat for Catholic Campus Ministry students from the Diocese of Helena to explore the topic of vocations. |
De La Salle Blackfeet School: | $2,000.00 | Inaugurate a small entrepreneurial project through woodshop. |
Good Samaritan Ministries: | $1,800.00 | Tabbing Machine for fundraising newsletter mailings. |
Guatemala Mission: | $5,000.00 | Funding to assist Clinica Maxena to provide medical care for patients most in need. |
Holy Spirit & St. Ann Parishes – Butte: | $2,250.00 | Continuation and expansion of the adult city-wide scripture study. |
Immaculate Conception – Deer Lodge: | $1,800.00 | Bring in nationally recognized speaker to do a two day mission for the parish. |
Immaculate Conception – Deer Lodge: | $400.00 | To provide bibles for Montana State Prison inmates & Warm Springs Hospital clients |
Immaculate Conception – Deer Lodge: | $500.00 | Provide “Living Faith” Pamphlets to clients at Warm Springs Hospital and Montana State Prison inmates. |
Immaculate Conception – Deer Lodge: | $500.00 | To provide assorted rosaries, crosses, bracelets and other religious items for clients at Warm Springs Hospital |
Immaculate Conception – Polson: | $2,257.74 | To update and modernize the RE Facilities |
Little Flower- Browning: | $2,000.00 | Teen Search |
Montana Tech Catholic Campus Ministry: | $4,500.00 | Student Forums on”Civility and Democracy” and another on “When the Blue Death plagued Montana”. |
Our Lady of the Valley – Helena: | $643.00 | Little Rock Scripture Study materials – two newly developed courses and two intermediate courses. |
Resurrection University – Bozeman: | $2,000.00 | Annual Religious Ed Congress in Anaheim including youth day. |
Resurrection University – Bozeman: | $3,000.00 | Stewardship Leadership – send three individuals to the ICSC Conference |
St. Anne – Heart Butte: | $3,000.00 | Youth/Adult Religious Education |
St. Anthony – Missoula: | $2,700.00 | Purchase computer and accessories to provide licensing, copyrighting and printing of music for liturgical and religious education music ministries. |
St. Francis of Assisi Social Justice Commission- Hamilton: | $3,000.00 | Provide funds for the purchase of food and supplies in support of the Community Meals Program, serving the needy in the parish. |
St. Francis of Assisi – Hamilton: | $1,000.00 | Audio/visual and electronic equipment for K-8 Faith Formation. |
St. Francis of Assisi – Hamilton: | $1,000.00 | Provide marriage & parenting enrichment small group study to parishioners and community members. |
St. Francis of Assisi – Valier: | $291.00 | Faith enhanced program called “Formed” online program for K – Adult. |
St. Francis Xavier – Missoula: | $4,385.29 | Safety, educational, and renovation improvements for Faith Fornation Program in the Loyola Center |
St. Ignatius Mission: | $1,000.00 | Provide adult religious education and faith enrichment. |
St. John the Evangelist – Fairfield: | $1,800.00 | Furnishing classroom space and technology for Junior High and High School students. |
St. Joseph – Choteau: | $1,350.00 | Catechist training and development. |
St. Joseph School – Missoula: | $1,912.50 | Religious Education Congress – Three Day Professional Development Conference. |
St. Margaret – Cut Bank: | $292.00 | Faith enhanced program called “Formed” online program for K – Adult |
St. Mary Catholic Community: | $1,852.20 | New window coverings for social center windows, these will help maintain safe environment standards. |
St. Matthew’s – Kalispell: | $2,250.00 | Marriage Enrichment Events & Retreats & Date Night |
St. Matthias Mission – Augusta: | $4,500.00 | New flooring in Parish Center |
St. Rose of Lima – Dillon: | $2,000.00 | Church parking lot is in need of regrading and placement of gravel/roadmix on the existing parking lot. |
St. Rose of Lima – Dillon: | $3,000.00 | Purchase of RE curriculum for K-8th grade classes and high school confirmation classes for 2018-2019 school year. |
St. Thomas Aquinas – Sunburst: | $900.00 | The ceiling inside the church is in need of painting and the shed needs repairing. 100th anniversary celebration in September. |
St. William – Shelby: | $292.00 | Faith enhanced program called “Formed” online program for K – Adult |