$213,250 in Grants Awarded in 2026!

Last year the Catholic Foundation distributed grants to Catholic parishes and organizations in every deanery of our diocese. Rural parishes in Center, Conejos and Cortez received support to grow and expand their religious education programs. Teens and young adults from Canon City to Fruita, and Capulin to Lamar will be afforded retreat encounters to share their faith with their peers. The Hispanic Ministry program will continue to expand services in Alamosa, Hotchkiss, Gunnison and Trinidad. And adult bible study opportunities will be funded in Florence and Westcliffe. These are a few examples of how parishes are using their funding to grow the body of Christ. Forty-Seven (47!) grants were awarded this year, allowing the Catholic Foundation to continue its philanthropic mission to serve as the “The Giving Arm of the Diocese.”

$149,400 was awarded in parish, mission and program assistance for catechetical programs, faith formation and worship.
$36,850 was awarded in pastoral programs to support diocesan programs and other Catholic organizations.
$27,000 was granted to Catholic schools to strengthen enrollment through tuition assistance.

Values shown in percentages.

Catholic Foundation grants support a variety of programs, such as…

                    • New Religious Education Materials
                    • Campus Ministry Opportunities
                    • Audio-Visual Equipment
                    • Lay Ministry Training
                    • Vacation Bible School
                    • Catholic School Tuition

• High School Newman Club Activities
• Adult Faith Formation Support
• Parish and Formation Retreats
• Sacramental Preparation
• Parish Liturgical Supplies
• Youth Conference Encounters

In addition to providing parish, mission and program assistance, the Catholic Foundation awarded $57,000 in humanitarian grants in 2025-226. These grants will help homeless shelters, food banks, pro-life pregnancy centers and medical clinics for the poor. These grants are made possible through the Msgr. Delaney Humanitarian Fund. Please visit HUMANITARIAN GRANTS for a full listing of awards.

The Catholic Foundation awards these grants with faith and confidence that the funds will positively impact parishes, missions, and other Catholic organizations as they serve the people of the diocese.

Durango Deanery

St. Ignatius Parish, Ignacio
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Purpose of Grant: To purchase a new Monstrance and Censer to enhance worship in the church.

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (Montelores Catholic Comminity), Cortez
Amount Awarded: $6,000
Purpose of Grant: To defray the expense to host a NET Ministry retreat, purchase an annual Y-Discipleship subscription for youth catechists/leaders and provide resources for parish-wide catechetical study opportunities.

Sacred Heart Church, Durango
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Purpose of Grant: To defray the cost to host Totus Tuus for area parishes.

St. Columba Catholic School, Durango
Amount Awarded: $7,000
Purpose of Grant: Catholic education tuition assistance to support and heighten enrollment and foster the spiritual formation of our youth.

LifeGuard, Durango
Amount Awarded: $6,000
Purpose of Grant: To defray the speaker and music expenses for the 15th Annual Southwest Catholic Youth Conference which promotes the message of chastity, purity and dignity.

Durango Deanery
Amount Awarded: $6,000
Purpose of Grant: Support for members of the Chastity Project to offer two chastity presentations to youth in the Durango Deanery.

St. Columba Parish, Durango
Amount Awarded: $5,800
Purpose of Grant: To ensure equal access to faith formation opportunities by assisting 12 youth traveling to Steubenville of the Rockies and purchasing LifeTeen and children’s ministry activity books.

Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish

Colorado’s oldest church
The church has been a focal point for community events since its initial founding in the 1850s. After an 1863 adobe church in this location partially burned in 1926, the 1927 rear portion of the building was constructed and attached to twin 1879 adobe towers and the façade that survived the fire. In 1948 the adobe towers and front were demolished, the nave was expanded, and the current façade and towers were erected.

Alamosa Deanery

Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, Conejos
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Purpose of Grant: To defray the cost to host First Communion and Confirmation sacramental retreats, ceremonies and receptions for the family and faith community in order to provide a strong spiritual foundation for students to grow.

Sacred Heart Church, Alamosa
Amount Awarded: $5,200
Purpose of Grant: To defray the cost to host a summer Totus Tuus retreat, renew the subscription to FORMED to provide resources for the home-bound and faith formation, plus registration funding for catechetical leaders to attend the Westcliffe retreat to better equip them to guide others in their faith.

Sangre de Cristo Parish, San Luis
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Purpose of Grant: To purchase bibles and other materials for the Confirmandi as they prepare for the final Sacrament of Initiation.

St. Francis Jerome, Center
Amount Awarded: $4,300
Purpose of Grant: To purchase faith formation catechetical curriculum, provide youth ministry training, and purchase a copy machine for use in the newly established Family Faith Formation program.

St. Joseph Parish, Capulin
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Purpose of Grant: To host a week-long Totus Tuus retreat and a one-day NET Ministry retreat, plus defray the Beaver Creek Confirmation retreat expenses, purchase bibles and new faith formation resources, plus help with the cost for internet access.

Holy Family Mission Parish
Amount Awarded: $4,000
Purpose of Grant:

La Junta Deanery

Our Lady of Guadalupe/St. Patrick Parish, La Junta
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Purpose of Grant: To purchase televisions for each faith formation classroom (5) in order to better utilize the FORMED online platform; purchase religious education instruction materials in both Spanish and English, plus funding for outreach ministries that provide Mass books for the homebound and imprisoned.

St. Francis De Sales/Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, Lamar
Amount Awarded: $2,500
Purpose of Grant: To defray the cost to host a Net Ministry retreat for Confirmation candidates from the areas of Lamar, Holly and Springfield.

St. Peter Parish, Ordway
Amount Awarded: $3,000
Purpose of Grant:

Most Holy Trinity Church, Trinidad
Amount Awarded: $5,500
Purpose of Grant: $To defray the expense to host Totus Tuus, purchse youth study bibles and Gospel weeklies, plus funding for classroom whiteboards.

St. Mary Catholic Church, Las Animas
Amount Awarder: $3,000
Purpose of Grant: To purchase The Word Among Us for daily Mass readings and meditations and to share with parishioners confined to the Nursing Home, and funding for a portable wireless speaker system to use in the parish hall and the Nursing Home Mass.

St. Frances of Rome, Holly
Amount Awarded: $4,000
Purpose of Grant:

Pueblo Deanery

Catholic Pastoral Network- Newman Club, Pueblo
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Purpose of Grant: To support weekly Catholic Newman Club discussion meetings, presentations and activities at Centennial, Central, East and South High Schools, giving teens an opportunity to engage in with others and learn more about their Catholic faith and inspire involvement in ministry and service to the Church while providing a Catholic-Christian presence to teens in high school. (over 200 students served weekly)

Pueblo Deanery continued

Catholic Pastoral Network-Teen Reconciliation Service, Pueblo
Amount Awarded: $350
Purpose of Grant: To defray the expense to provide city-wide Advent and Lenten reconciliation services for teens.

Catholic Pastoral Network- NET Ministry Retreat- Pueblo Deanery
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Purpose of Grant: To defray the expense to host a NET Ministry retreat for middle school and high school aged youth in the Pueblo Deanery and surrounding areas.

St. Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, Walsenburg
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Purpose of Grant: To defray the expense to host a summer Totus Tuus retreat.

DCCW
Amount Awarded: $4,000
Purpose of Grant:

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Pueblo
Amount Awarded: $4,000
Purpose of Grant: To defray the cost for youth to attend the Southwest Catholic Youth Conference in Farmington, New Mexico, and to attend the NET Ministry retreat.

Our Lady of Assumption, Westcliffe
Amount Awarded: $2,500
Purpose of Grant: To purchase a year’s subscription to Liturgy of the Hours and twenty-one copies of Divine Intimacy booklets for use in the parish.

St. Paul the Apostle Parish, Pueblo West
Amount Awarded: $3,600
Purpose of Grant: To assist with fees to establish a parish website.

Christ the King, Pueblo
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Purpose of Grant: To provide catechist training to implement the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd formation program and to build an atrium for the program, plus funding to assist with youth retreat expenses.

St. Benedict Parish, Florence
Amount Awarded: $2,800
Purpose of Grant: To purchase teen bibles, a year’s subscription to Liturgy of the Hours, OCIA materials and Divine Intimacy booklets.

St. Leander Parish, Pueblo
Amount Awarded: $1,125
Purpose of Grant: To purchase a variety of sacramental workbooks for the faith formation program.

St. Mary Help of Christians, Pueblo
Amount Awarded: $4,000
Purpose of Grant: To purchase bibles, supplies to support OCIA and OCIC, plus defray the cost to host a variety of parish retreats, and funding to replace the Monstrance and Luna.

St. Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, Walsenburg
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Purpose of Grant: To defray the expense to host a summer Totus Tuus retreat.

St. John Neumann Catholic School, Pueblo
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Purpose of Grant: Catholic education tuition assistance to support and heighten enrollment and foster the spiritual formation of our youth.

Shrine of St. Therese Catholic Church
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Purpose of Grant: To purchase Spiritual Pilgrimage books, assist with Missionary Discipleship and Catechist leadership fees, FDLC registration fees plus funding for a podcast license.

Grand Junction Deanery

Mesa College Campus Ministry, Grand Junction
Amount Awarded: $5,350
Purpose of Grant: To provide funding for a Welcome retreat, Awakening retreat and Leadership retreat plus funding to attend the FOCUS (SEEK) conference, and support for a variety of ministry events that offer college-aged students the opportunity to explore their faith and encounter Christ with other young adults; plus funding to help maintain the Newman house, a gathering space for the community of faithful young Catholics.

St. Joseph Parish, Grand Junction
Amount Awarded: $6,000
Purpose of Grant: To support the Missionary Discipleship evangelization program by offering Sycamore sessions, prayer and worship opportunities and additional audio visual equipment for live streaming. In addition, $2,000 will be allocated to support the FOCUS ministry at Mesa college.

Sacred Heart Church, Paonia
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Purpose of Grant: To purchase new faith formation curriculum, defray the expense to offer Totus Tuus and Confirmation retreat opportunies for students, and funding to host a Lenten retreat for the parish comminity.

Sacred Heart Catholic Parish, Fruita
Amount Awarded: $5,500
Purpose of Grant: To offset the registration expenses for the SEEK conference and the Pathways to Holiness Catechetical formation program, plus support for Newman Club and SERVES Work Camp ministries.

St. Margaret Mary Mission, Hotchkiss
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Purpose of Grant: To purchase a variety of worship books in English and Spanish, plus funding for the Confirmation program and support for registration and travel expenses for youth attending the SEEK retreat 2026.

Grand Junction Deanery, Grand Junction
Amount Awarded: $6,000
Purpose of Grant: To provide the opportunity to Catholic youth from the Grand Junction Deanery who wish to attend the Confirmation retreat at Camp Cedaredge, providing the opportunity for spiritual, liturgical, and sacramental engagement in preparation for the final Rite of Initiation.

St. Micheal, Delta
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Purpose of Grant: To provide support for a variety of youth retreats, including a Jubilee pilgrimage to Rome, and funds to purchase and provide instrunction training for Symbolon and Sycamore.

St. Peter Parish, Gunnison
Amount awarded: $5,000
Purpose of Grant: To purchase Smart-TVs for each classroom and multiple laptops in order to fully utlitize the FORMED online platform in faith formation, plus funding for VBS and Hispanic Ministry programs.

Our Lady of Fatima, Olathe
Amount Awarded: $415
Purpose of Grant: To purchase audio/visual equipment for use in the faith formation program.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Grand Junction
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Purpose of Grant: To provide resources for VBS and Totus Tuus, plus funding to offset the expenses of youth traveling to Steubenville of the Rockies.