Minnesota · Nonprofit
MARY'S PENCE
MARY'S PENCE (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $458,963 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($277,355). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $931k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $459k
- Net assets
- $530k
What Mary's Pence does
Mission
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. Mary's Pence is an organization serving women in the americas in order to help them improve their overall health and well-being through increased economic self-sufficiency. The focus is on ministries that directly impact the quality of life. Mary's Pence offers resources and training that increases women's economic power while fostering education and expanding leadership.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The espera program partners with women's organizations in central america and mexico on economic autonomy and empowerment. A key focus is economic security though development of small economic enterprises. We provide funding for locally owned lending pools, training on business skills, and coaching of small businesses. We work with existing local women's organizations, and we partner with them on strengthening their local organizations. Emotional wellness has been a recent focus, and we have sponsored local group workshops, as well as online emotional wellness tools. The espera program partners with 14 groups in 5 countries. Over $200,000 is in circulation in the local lending pools, and over 1,400 women have benefited from loans over time. Over $80,000 in grants were provided to our partner organizations for local projects.
$428,742 spentof which $150,620 as grants50% of program spendingMary's Pence funds women's organizations in the us that are working within their local community to create long-term systemic change. The organizations we fund are all small, with budgets under $250,000. Each organization organizes and creates healthy communities, advocates to change unjust policies, and educates to build skills and increase capacity. Our grants act as seed money for organizations that are newly created, and as support for organizations that have been working on the grassroots level for years. In addition to providing financial support, Mary's Pence connects our grantees with other like-minded organizations and helpful resources. This year we gave grants to 23 organizations from across the country. We hosted a 3 day workshop for our grantees where they connected and created community, and participated in workshops critical to small nonprofit success.
$324,702 spentof which $179,765 as grants38% of program spendingOur education and outreach efforts are based on catholic social teaching principles. Mary's Pence shares information on the issues of justice, women's rights and human rights and other issues faced by women and families in poverty - here in the u.s. As well as in latin america. Our education and outreach efforts include our newsletters, emails, and letters to donors and interested parties, participation in conferences and workshops, our calendar of women and other ways we interact with our communities.
$96,036 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $849,480.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $828k to $673k (−19%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of MARY'S PENCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Katherine Wojtan
Executive director
Board chair
Nancy Silva
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $17k → $104k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MARY'S PENCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MARY'S PENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MARY'S PENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 56% · 2021 92% · 2022 81% · 2023 69% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
60% of MARY'S PENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
68% of MARY'S PENCE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $148k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $311k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MARY'S PENCE's revenue grew 56% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding MARY'S PENCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1k on record.
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$1k
- GRANT IN AID$100
- TRUST FUND$78
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MARY'S PENCE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARY'S PENCE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARY'S PENCE?
- MARY'S PENCE (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $458,963 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($277,355). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MARY'S PENCE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $458,963 in grants to MARY'S PENCE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARY'S PENCE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $277,355 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARY'S PENCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing