Planned Parenthood Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota Action Fund

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
411709702
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
St Paul, MN, USA
Phone
6128216192
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$841,425
Expenses
$929,185
Assets
$1,757,096
Liabilities
$879,786

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

29 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RUTH RICHARDSON (PRESIDENT)
  • TIMOTHY STANLEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • RUTH RICHARDSON (PRESIDENT): $506,464 total reported compensation
  • TIMOTHY STANLEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $198,922 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We mobilize supporters of all parties to defend and increase access to family planning services and fact based, medically accurate sexuality education. We work to inspire and engage citizens to take up the cause of reproductive health and rights through education, grassroots organizing, and legislative advocacy.

What it reported doing in 2024

In fy 2025 action fund staff responded to continued attacks on reproductive health and rights. Staff collaborated with allies at the Minnesota legislature and in the governor's office to oppose and defeat legislation that would put up barriers to sexual and reproductive health care in Minnesota as well as minimize any funding cuts to sexual and reproductive health care. Staff also worked to educate state lawmakers on the impacts federal legislation and rules had on sexual and reproductive care in the state. Action fund staff in all three states operated a sophisticated digital program that generated 92,298 website visits, 19 blog posts, and gained 1,604 new followers on our social media platforms. In our continued response to the absence of a national right to abortion, action fund staff organized supporters to lobby their elected officials to oppose and defeat legislation that would put up barriers to sexual and reproductive health care in Minnesota as well as minimize any funding cuts to sexual and reproductive health care, and continued to grow and expand our grassroots, youth, and campus organizing work. Action fund staff held 69 events to educate, engage, and activate supporters and volunteers, including an influx of new volunteers. These events included trainings and educational sessions about issues of focus for legislative session, how to share your personal stories, dismantling stigma around sexual and reproductive health, phone banks, door knocks, attending and holding community events, and more. Throughout the year staff and youth leaders held numerous events with hundreds of volunteers in attendance to package abortion care kits for use in planned parenthood clinics. On one day alone, 73 supporters partcipated in care package creation, donating over $1,500 in supplies and packing over 1,300 kits for planned parenthood patients. During the Minnesota legislative session, action fund staff engaged thousands of people through grassroots organizing, text banking, phone banking, and digital outreach to protect and expand access to reproductive health care in Minnesota. Staff and volunteers sent 21,000 text messages, over 126,000 emails, called 1,000 supporters, and secured over 4,000 emails to legislators from minnesotans. Staff in Minnesota held various lobby days over the course of the legislative session. Planned parenthood generation action youth chapters and teen council members joined meetings with their elected officials to discuss the importance of passing bills that would protect and expand access to sexual and reproductive health care.our seven planned parenthood generation action youth chapters based in Minnesota conducted dozens of events on their campuses and organized their peers to take action to secure reproductive rights in our state. Campus clubs participated in care kit making, submitted op-eds and letters to the editor to local publications, assisted in providing menstrual products on their campuses, and registered 250 new voters. One youth member applied for and was accepted into the national student leadership cohort dedicated to mentoring young leaders of color on reproductive rights advocacy. Our annual path to power summer internship welcomed nine students who learned the fundamentals of grassroots organizing and applied them through organizing and advocacy projects. Interns assisted in volunteer recruitment and events and mobilized supporters to protect reproductive rights, through canvasses, phone banks and educational events. Our two planned parenthood generation action youth chapters based in South Dakota conducted dozens of events on their campuses to educate their peers on sexual and reproductive health topics. Students worked to destigmatize reproductive health on campus and encouraged a safe environment for students to have conversations about reproductive health and rights. Staff in North Dakota endorsed legislative candidates for the state house of representatives and state senate. Staf

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 84% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - Most voting board members are independent and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 48
  • Transparency & Controls: 66
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 53%; rating input score 53
  • Program expense ratio: 48%; rating input score 48
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.69 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 2nd 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: 85.1%; rating input score 85; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -10.4%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.89; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.4%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 53% of revenue deployed · 48% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 27 of 27 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $446K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $506K · 29 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 24 of 26 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 12 filed related-organization links
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.