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The Catholic Foundation of Eastern Montana’s 2023 grant application portal is now closed. Please check back in the spring of 2024 to apply for our next grant cycle!

 

For those who applied in 2023: the Foundation Board will review applications and determine awards this July. We will be in touch with you shortly after that regarding the status of your application. Keep an eye on the mail!

 

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In the four years since our grant program was established, the Foundation has distributed nearly $250,000 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!

If you’ve received a grant in the past, make sure you’ve completed reporting requirements! Whether you’ve met reporting requirements for past grants is an important factor in the Board’s decision-making for future grants.

Requirements include:

  • Grant Impact Report (linked below)
  • Grant Expense Record (linked below)
  • Testimonials, quotes, or stories about how the Foundation grant has helped your organization
  • Photos of your project
  • Invoices/receipts that show how your grant funds were spent
  • More details available in the Grant Impact Report!

If you have any questions, please contact Anna Attaway, our Communications and Development Specialist, at [email protected] or 406-401-1767.

Click to complete your Grant Impact ReportClick to complete your Grant Expense RecordClick to view our 2023 Grant Guidelines

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.