Planned Parenthood Action Fund

Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Inc. is a 501(c)(4) organization at 123 William Street in New York. Its IRS ruling date is February 1990 (EIN 13-3539048). For the 2023 tax year it reported total revenue of $40.0 million and total assets of$13.7 million.

It is a distinct entity from Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the 501(c)(3) that supports the health centers. The Action Fund carries advocacy and electoral work that a charitable entity may not, and it does not deliver or bill for health care.

Related political committees

The Action Fund’s own site distinguishes two political committees: Planned Parenthood Votes and Planned Parenthood Federal PAC, formally the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Inc. Political Action Committee. It describes the latter as “the Action Fund’s non-partisan political action committee … a traditional federal PAC registered with the Federal Election Commission,” which “collects contributions from Action Fund members and makes limited contributions to federal candidates in accordance with federal campaign finance laws” and also supports state candidates where permitted. That committee, FEC ID C00314617, first filed on 5 March 1996.

Stated purpose

The Action Fund states that it “works to advance access to sexual health care and defend reproductive rights,” and that it will “fight to make sure that people in this country can access reproductive health care no matter their ZIP code, income, sexual orientation, race, religion, gender, country of origin, or immigration status.”

Relevance to digital political discourse

The Action Fund’s public site is organised around action rather than information: issue pages paired with a top-actions list, a volunteer sign-up, local event and local official finders, and campaign identities such as Bans Off Our Bodies published in both English and Spanish.