Planned Parenthood North Central States – PPNCS

What it reported doing in 2024

Public affairs staff in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota engaged volunteers in over 69 outreach, advocacy and engagement events. Through grassroots organizing, we grew our email list by over 8,150 people and our text messaging list by over 1,700 people and collected 150 stories from people about why planned parenthood matters to them. Our ten planned parenthood generation action youth chapters in Minnesota pre-registered16- & 17-year olds to vote. Additionally, campuses held educational and interactive events on campus aimed at destigmatizing abortion and other sex education topics. Collectively, they hosted 53 events or outreach tables throughout the school year reaching over 2,000 contacts. Public affairs staff and volunteers hosted donation drives and abortion care basket assembly events, making and distributing 1,300 abortion care baskets to Minnesota health centers. Staff in Minnesota continuted to engage patients in our mission through the health center advocacy program. Advocacy tables were maintained in the vandalia and lagoon health centers. We collected 291 new supporters who were interested in volunteering, sharing their story, or both. In Minnesota, public affairs staff worked with 425 volunteers, engaging them in over 1,100 volunteer hours. Public affairs participated in pride activities in minneapolis and pine city, mn and fargo, grand forks, jamestown, nd. In North Dakota, we continued to organize at college campuses in fargo and grand forks. With the support of our student intern, the chapter at North Dakota state university recognized black history month by showing the film miss evers' boys on campus. They also partnered with life cares unites to pack menstrual product kits and safer sex kits for distribution through life cares unites' relief shops. Our student group at the university of North Dakota assembled over 400 menstrual hygiene kits to be distributed throughout the community. We partnered with the lgbtq+ summit to provide safer sex supplies and education at their annual event in bismarck. In South Dakota, we continued organizing at both South Dakota state university and university of South Dakota to provide incoming and current students with information about planned parenthood's mission and sexual and reproductive health issues broadly. Campuses held a total of 33 events or community outreach tables. They both grew the number of students involved in their chapters.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 91%; rating input score 91
• Program expense ratio: 79.1%; rating input score 79
• Fundraising efficiency: $5.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Missing
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 98.3%; rating input score 98; 29th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 40%; rating input score 40; 7th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Fail
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -15.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.34; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0.3%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -9.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings