Butterfly Grants

You Can Help Those in Need. And We'll Help You.

Imagine the wind stirred by a butterfly's wings. Minuscule, but it has an effect. You can have an effect on someone's life! Propose a project that will help people, and if we like it, we'll fund it up to $300. Pick up an application in the office or online.

Butterfly Grants are back! Grant application deadlines are March 1, June 1, September 1, and December 1

--Social Concerns Committee

APPLY FOR BUTTERFLY GRANT

Do you have an outreach project in mind? You can apply for a Butterfly grant from the Social Concerns Committee. For more information about the Butterfly grants, click here. And if you have already received a Butterfly Grant, we would be happy to add more photos and descriptions to this page. Inspire others to flutter their wings!

Previous grants included assistance to these causes:


Support for Local Schools

When Missoula County Public Schools was faced with financial issues (as Covid-era aid was ended), several Butterfly Grants helped to provide needed support:

  • Providing magnetic letters to help Kindergarten students at Jefferson School


  • Helping to fund after-school lunches/snacks through Soft Landing


  • Enabling the purchase of reading materials for Lowell School (located in one of the “less affluent” areas of Missoula

Other Butterfly Grants helped to support ministries related to several of our principal ministries:

When Missoula County Public Schools was faced with financial issues (as Covid-era aid was ended), several Butterfly Grants helped to provide needed support:

  • Enabling the purchase of fancy soaps, which were sold to finance assistance at a school in Jaboncillos, Mexico… an offshoot of our support for Rio Grande Borderlands Ministry which entailed a work trip by 8 volunteers to this village across the border in Mexico (in Spanish, soap is “jabon”)

  • Support for the Hellgate High School Choir… an offshoot of our support for this neighbor


  • Purchase of baskets, aprons and other articles produced by the Palomas Women’s Coop, which were then sold locally at higher prices, providing even more funding for this Cooperative located in the border town of Palomas. Mexico (also related to Rio Grande Borderlands Ministry)

Still, other Butterfly Grants were focused on community support activities identified by Holy Spirit parishioners, including:

  • Purchase of books for students in the Rocky Boy Native American Reservation


  • Purchase of several coffee makers for Stepping Stones, a local non-profit focused on helping people overcome substance abuse


  • Providing gas cards to Missoula police officers, to make them available to people and families spending cold winter nights in their automobiles (and which later led to an expanded effort to collect unused sleeping bags and/or funds to purchase sleeping bags, to be made available to this same group of people in our community)