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2025 Grant Application Now Open!

 

The Catholic Foundation of Eastern Montana’s 2025 grant application is now live! Click here to apply.

Applications are due by 11:59 PM on Friday, June 6, 2025.

We encourage anyone interested in applying to get started early. Here’s how:

  1. Read the 2025 Grant Instructions – These have been revised from last year, so please review carefully.
  2. Brainstorm your project – Think about what you’d like to fund with a grant.
  3. Plan your budget – Start gathering cost estimates or request bids from contractors if needed.

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Proud to Support Catholic Projects

In the six years since our grant program was established, the Foundation has distributed nearly $400,000 to Catholic schools, parishes, and ministries throughout the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings. We—and our generous donors to the Greatest Needs Endowment and Parish Assistance Endowment—love helping you meet your organization’s needs that go above and beyond your normal budgets!

 

Have you previously received a grant from the Foundation?

If you received a grant from the Foundation last year or any year prior, make sure you’ve completed its reporting requirements. Whether you’ve met reporting requirements for past grants is a key factor in the Board’s decision-making for future grants.

NEW: If a 2024 funded project has not been completed, you must submit a progress report before applying for a 2025 grant.

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Questions?

If you have any questions, please contact Judy Held, Foundation President, at [email protected] or 406-315-1765.

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About the Parish Assistance Endowment

Allie Russell

In your charity, please pray for the soul of Allie Russell (1923-2022), parishioner at Holy Family Church in Glentana, who made her first gift to the Foundation in 2015 to launch the Parish Assistance Endowment.

Coming from a very small rural parish, Allie understood how difficult it is for some of the Catholic churches in Eastern Montana to make ends meet. She decided to do something about it, and created an endowment. “It is an honor to be able to help the churches,” Allie said. “Some of them are really in need and I am glad to do what I can.”

Each year, the endowment’s distribution goes to a parish in need via the grant program. Please consider joining Allie in her support of our diocese’s rural parishes by giving to the Parish Assistance Endowment.