Donna and Steve Busch

Donna and Steve Busch

There is no question in our minds that the world is a better place because of all the good work done by the Catholic Church. We try to do what we can to help our local community and our parish church with the desire to help our immediate neighbors.

We are supporters of any program that is geared to helping the less fortunate among us. St. Mary’s Parish has a very effective food bank and we especially like to support it. Giving money to the Diocese was an attempt to help a broader community.

Sometime in 2000, we were engaged in a rather complex real estate transaction involving an IRS 1031 land exchange. We ended up with a parcel of land that had no immediate use to us. We decided to donate the land to the Church and have the sale proceeds become part of what is today the Idaho Catholic Foundation.

We are both cradle Catholics and graduates of Catholic school. God has blessed us on many levels, and we feel a need to give back. We have plans to make additions to the fund. Our hope is it would be used to help the less fortunate among us in any way that is needed.