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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.

$330k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Civil Rights$115kYouth Development$89kPhilanthropy$88kHuman Services$79kCommunity Improvement$52kPublic Benefit$50kCrime & Legal$45kHealth$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $160,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $330,385 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $169,635 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $146k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$8,250
Median grant
11
States reached
$667k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$14,750
POWER$9,000
THISTL$8,250
ALTAGRACIA FAITH AND JUSTICE WORKS$8,250
DEMOCRASHE$8,250
SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN PROJECT INC$8,250
HATTIE B BLACK WOMEN IN PROGRESS$8,250
PROJECT RAINBOW UTAH$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
MISSOURI DISABILITY EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION$7,500
CLUTCH$7,500
KIND HEARTED WOMEN'S SOCIETY$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HATTIE B BLACK WOMEN IN PROGRESS: $8k → 18%EXODUS LENDING: $6k → 14%IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ACTION: $6k → 6%LA FAMILIA COUNSELING CENTER: $6k → 12%HEART OF COURAGE: $8k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER PORTLAND - FEMINISTS ACT: $6k → 12%HATTIE B BLACK WOMEN IN PROGRESS: $8k → 18%IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ACTION: $6k → 6%WELCOMING THE STRANGER: $6k → 6%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS: $6k → 14%AYADA LEADS: $6k → 11%AYADA LEADS: $6k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

Central America and the Caribbean$115k · 93% · 8 grants

Stated purpose: ASSEMBLY SUPPORT, COORDINATOR STIPENDS AND GENERAL SUPPORT

North America (Canada and Mexico)$9k · 7% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ASSEMBLY SUPPORT, COORDINATOR STIPENDS AND GENERAL SUPPORT

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$429k · 27 repeat orgs$204k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
20

Total granted

$429k
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+22%

Still filing today

74%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCivil RightsEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +8%
  • AF
    ALTAGRACIA FAITH and JUSTICE WORKS
    3× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +127%
  • LO
    LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $19k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON MALE SUPREMACISMgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +193% · 27% of their budget
  • IC
    INDIGENOUS CREATIVES COLLECTIVE
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue -2%
  • HR
    HOUSING RESOURCE NETWORK
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
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2
Womens March Inc

Women's March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.

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3
United Women of the Horn

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…

Civil Rights
4
Gender Justice Fund
Human Services
5
Womens Justice Initiative Inc

The Womens Justice Initiative improves the lives of indigenous Guatemalan women and girls through education, access to legal services, and gender-based violence prevention.

Education
6
The Conversationalist
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7
Daria Services

Empower reproductive justice movement

Civil Rights
8
Women Thriving Inc

Women Thriving creates opporunities for women facing economic social and racial inequalities.

Human Services
9
Women in Migration Network Inc

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…

Civil Rights
10
Lavender Rights Project

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…

Crime & Legal
11
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
12
Progressive Pipeline

Recruit and train the next generation of progressive leaders.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Transformative Action; 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.
04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
46/50
Grantees still filing
25/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLACK DISABILITY COLLECTIVE: $18,376 · OtherBLACK DISABILITY COLLECTIVENational Equal Justice Association Inc: $16,500 · OtherPARENTS ORGANIZING FOR WELFARE AND ECONOMIC RIGHTS: $16,500 · OtherCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION: $15,750 · OtherCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ASSOCIATION: $14,938 · OtherEARTHART INSTITUTE: $12,050 · OtherCircle of Health International: $12,000 · OtherMAMA TO MAMA INC: $11,250 · OtherSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $24,938 · OtherSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INCGERMANTOWN RESIDENTS FOR ECONOMIC ALTERNATIVES TOGETHER: $15,750 · OtherTHISTL: $16,500 · OtherREADY TO LAUNCH: $15,750 · OtherData for Indigenous Justice: $14,188 · Other+15 more: $106,628 · Other+15 moreSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $61,126 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND I…IT TAKES A VILLAGE COLLABORATIVE IN: $19,500 · EducationIT TAKES A VILLAGE…WOMANHOOD PROJECT INC: $19,500 · EducationWOMANHOOD PROJECT …DEMOCRASHE: $8,250 · EducationDEMOCRASHELitShop: $5,750 · EducationCENTRO DE RECURSOS EDUCATIVOS PARA ADULTOS INC: $5,750 · EducationALTAGRACIA FAITH and JUSTICE WORKS: $21,250 · Civil RightsALTAGRACIA FAI…LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC: $18,750 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF WOME…PROJECT RAINBOW UTAH: $15,750 · Civil RightsPROJECT RAINBO…CROSSINGBARRIERS: $12,000 · Civil RightsCROSSINGBARRIE…REFUGEE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $11,500 · Civil RightsREFUGEE COMMUN…INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON MALE SUPREMACISM: $9,188 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR …National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $5,750 · Civil RightsNational Domes…Hattie B BWIP: $15,750 · Human ServicesHattie B BWI…Special Service for Groups Inc: $11,875 · Human ServicesSpecial Serv…IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ACTION: $11,500 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT RI…AYADA LEADS: $11,500 · Human ServicesAYADA LEADSHeart of Courage: $7,500 · Human ServicesHeart of Cou…WELCOMING THE STRANGER INC: $5,750 · Human ServicesWELCOMING TH…La Familia Counseling Center Inc: $5,750 · Human ServicesLa Familia C…YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $5,750 · Human ServicesYWCA OF GREA…EXODUS FINANCIAL SERVICES: $5,633 · Human ServicesEXODUS FINAN…WORKING GROUP ON GIRLS OF SCHENECTADY INC: $22,438 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH ACTIVISM PROJECT: $17,250 · Youth DevelopmentHARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN INC: $5,750 · Youth DevelopmentILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $13,750 · PhilanthropyTHE ROCKLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $13,250 · PhilanthropyMISSOURI DISABILITY EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION: $7,500 · PhilanthropyPROPEL NONPROFITS: $5,750 · PhilanthropySOUTH ASIAN WOMEN PROJECT INC: $15,750 · HealthLORETTO LIVING CENTER AT LORETTO MOTHERHOUSE INC: $7,500 · HealthDont Look Back Center Inc: $5,750 · Health
Other$311,118Education$119,876Civil Rights$94,188Human Services$81,008Youth Development$45,438Philanthropy$40,250Health$29,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $61,126 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $24,938 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING GROUP ON GIRLS OF SCHENECTADY INC: $22,438 over 3y, 14% of budgetALTAGRACIA FAITH and JUSTICE WORKS: $21,250 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetIT TAKES A VILLAGE COLLABORATIVE IN: $19,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC: $18,750 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetYOUTH ACTIVISM PROJECT: $17,250 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetNational Equal Justice Association Inc: $16,500 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetTHISTL: $16,500 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetGERMANTOWN RESIDENTS FOR ECONOMIC ALTERNATIVES TOGETHER: $15,750 over 2y, 19% of budgetPROJECT RAINBOW UTAH: $15,750 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetHattie B BWIP: $15,750 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetREADY TO LAUNCH: $15,750 over 2y, 12% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION: $15,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH ASIAN WOMEN PROJECT INC: $15,750 over 2y, 47% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ASSOCIATION: $14,938 over 2y, 40% of budgetData for Indigenous Justice: $14,188 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $13,750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROCKLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $13,250 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSpecial Service for Groups Inc: $11,875 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRANT RIGHTS ACTION: $11,500 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetREFUGEE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAYADA LEADS: $11,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMAMA TO MAMA INC: $11,250 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON MALE SUPREMACISM: $9,188 over 1y, 27% of budgetINDIGENOUS CREATIVES COLLECTIVE: $9,188 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDEMOCRASHE: $8,250 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetATLANTA DOULA COLLECTIVE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHeart of Courage: $7,500 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetMISSOURI DISABILITY EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $5,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpirituality Network: $5,750 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetWELCOMING THE STRANGER INC: $5,750 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLitShop: $5,750 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDont Look Back Center Inc: $5,750 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLa Familia Counseling Center Inc: $5,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROPEL NONPROFITS: $5,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRO DE RECURSOS EDUCATIVOS PARA ADULTOS INC: $5,750 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetYWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $5,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN INC: $5,750 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPlanting people growing justice leadership institute: $5,745 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetEXODUS FINANCIAL SERVICES: $5,633 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWAUB AJIJAAK PRESS & FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Peace Development FundHeadwaters Foundation…Amalgamated Charitabl…Proteus Fund IncWomen's Foundation of…The Minneapolis Found…Fr Bigelow FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…Mightycause Charitabl…California Community …National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…
Peace Development FundMA15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mary's Pence funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary's Pence. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Ywca of Greater Portland: 15% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Mary's Pence?

Find your warmest path to Mary's Pence through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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