Mary’s Pence grants support grassroots social justice organizations and small nonprofits that:
- Are located in the United States and whose work takes place in the United States.
- Have an annual budget of $250,000 or less.
- Are women-led —majority board and staff are women, cis women, trans women, or non-binary people.
- Are emerging from a need identified within the impacted community, and led by members of that community.
- Are working to enact long-term, sustainable change.
- Are focused on social justice actions — human dignity, the common good, the right to economic security and dignified work, care for the earth, participation, subsidiarity (decisions are made at the most local level possible and involve those most impacted) and nonviolence.