Our mission is to use our foundation’s resources to invest in and amplify grassroots leaders, organizations, and movements to achieve a more just, equitable, and anti-racist society.

We envision a society where power and resources are redistributed to address racial, economic, and other structural injustices and where diverse local leaders and their communities drive the change they wish to see in the world.

As a multi-generation family foundation, we value:

• Family legacy—yet embrace generational change

• Long-standing traditions of community organizing—yet respond to the changing times and needs of communities

• Actively putting all of our resources to work—from financial to community investment

• The power of trust-based relationships—working together in service of social and economic justice.

We commit to continue challenging structural inequities, in new ways, and in our times by building equity and justice into our mission and vision, and prioritizing organizations led by Black, Latinx, Asian, Native, and other communities of color who have been and continue to be under-resourced and underestimated.

Grant Programs

The Penney Family Fund is not affiliated with the J.C. Penney Company, Inc., or its corporate giving program.

The Penney Family Fund considers grant proposals by invitation only.