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The Catholic Foundation of Southern Minnesota is honored to support parishes, schools, and ministries across our diocese through strategic grantmaking rooted in faith and community impact. This page offers access to current public grant applications, eligibility guidelines, and key deadlines, along with resources to help you discern and prepare a strong proposal. Whether you're seeking support for a new initiative or sustaining vital outreach, we invite you to explore how these opportunities can help advance your mission and serve others in Christ’s name. If you don't see something on this page that fulfills your needs, please reach out to us directly. Many additional grants exist that are available under specific restrictions outlined by their donors.

Our Catholic faith is universal – one teaching, one Church and one Body of Christ. From cradle to grave each of us learns of and experiences this faith most immediately and intimately in our local parish. The Bishop, as teacher of the faith, has the responsibility to assure that lifelong formation is a priority in the parishes and that the faithful are afforded opportunities to grow in the life of Christ through prayer and by experiences, reflections and studies. Critical to these efforts are faith-filled and competent catechetical and pastoral ministers.

Three Seeds of Faith endowments were established in the early 2000’s by the people of the Diocese of Winona Rochester, under the leadership of Bishop Joseph Harrington with the intention of evangelization and catechesis of the Southern Minnesota Catholic faith community in perpetuity. What began as about $3 million has grown to be over $6.5 million under the care of the Catholic Foundation of Southern Minnesota.

Continue below to access additional information and public applications for the Faith Formation and Tuition Assistance endowments. The third Seeds of Faith Endowment, designated for Clergy Formation, is held by the Foundation but distributed through the Diocese of Winona-Rochester.