· Public charity
Mary's Pence
MARY'S PENCE promotes catholic social justice by directing donated resources to small women's projects in north america, south america, central america and the caribbean.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $160,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $330,385 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $169,635 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $146k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND | $14,750 |
| POWER | $9,000 |
| HATTIE B BLACK WOMEN IN PROGRESS | $8,250 |
| SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN PROJECT INC | $8,250 |
| PROJECT RAINBOW UTAH | $8,250 |
| THISTL | $8,250 |
| DEMOCRASHE | $8,250 |
| ALTAGRACIA FAITH AND JUSTICE WORKS | $8,250 |
| IDAHO JUSTICE PROJECT INC | $8,250 |
| CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION | $8,250 |
| SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS | $8,250 |
| ATLANTA DOULA COLLECTIVE | $8,000 |
| LORETTO COMMUNITY | $7,500 |
| CLUTCH | $7,500 |
| IN THE WEEDS | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $124k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: ASSEMBLY SUPPORT, COORDINATOR STIPENDS AND GENERAL SUPPORT
Stated purpose: ASSEMBLY SUPPORT, COORDINATOR STIPENDS AND GENERAL SUPPORT
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
27 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SASOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +8%
- AFALTAGRACIA FAITH and JUSTICE WORKS3× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +127%
- LOLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC3× · 2021–2023 · $19k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- ICINDIGENOUS CREATIVES COLLECTIVEone grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue -2%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON MALE SUPREMACISMgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +193% · 27% of their budget
- HRHOUSING RESOURCE NETWORKone grant, 2024 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Women's March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.
United Women of the Horn (UWH) exists to advance the leadership, safety, and civic participation of Black immigrant women, with a focus on East African communities. The organization delivers trauma-informed, culturally grounded programs…
The Womens Justice Initiative improves the lives of indigenous Guatemalan women and girls through education, access to legal services, and gender-based violence prevention.
Empower reproductive justice movement
Women Thriving creates opporunities for women facing economic social and racial inequalities.
Women in Migration Network (WIMN), an international non-governmental organization, identifies and promotes human rights-based and feminist global migration policies. We lift up and support the experiences, voices and agency of all women in…
Lavender Rights Project elevates the power, autonomy, and leadership of the black intersex & gender diverse community through intersectional legal and social services. We utilize the law as an organizing principle to affirm our civil…
Recruit and train the next generation of progressive leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Transformative Action and the most unlike its peers is LitShop. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 8 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 10% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds WORKING GROUP ON GIRLS OF SCHENECTADY INC ↗
- Who funds ALTAGRACIA FAITH and JUSTICE WORKS ↗
- Who funds IT TAKES A VILLAGE COLLABORATIVE IN ↗
- Who funds WOMANHOOD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ACTIVISM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds National Equal Justice Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THISTL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds GERMANTOWN RESIDENTS FOR ECONOMIC ALTERNATIVES TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT RAINBOW UTAH ↗
- Who funds READY TO LAUNCH ↗
- Who funds Hattie B BWIP ↗
- Who funds SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Data for Indigenous Justice ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSINGBARRIERS ↗
- Who funds Circle of Health International ↗
- Who funds Special Service for Groups Inc ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ACTION ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds AYADA LEADS ↗
- Who funds MAMA TO MAMA INC ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS CREATIVES COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON MALE SUPREMACISM ↗
- Who funds Idaho Justice Project ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRASHE ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA DOULA COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Heart of Courage ↗
- Who funds LORETTO LIVING CENTER AT LORETTO MOTHERHOUSE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Peace Development Fund · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mary's Pence funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ywca of Greater Portland — 15% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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