Power to Decide

What it reported doing in 2025

Digital programs: bedsider.org is an evidence-based digital platform that offers medically accurate, relevant, and resonant information on sex, sexual health, and birth control. For over 14 years, bedsider has helped nearly 90 million users to make autonomous, fully informed choices about their sexual and reproductive health. Bedsider is the nation's go-to resource on birth control.bedsider provides content that is independent, honest, unbiased, and accurate - in a voice that resonates with young people. Bedsider is available in english and spanish, and all content is vetted by medical professionals. Bedsider is based on extensive research and a deep understanding of its target audience (people aged 18-29) as well as its in-house expertise in reproductive health, health behavior change, health education and health communications.bedsider providers and bedsider providers+, our subscription channel, are digital platforms that serve as a companion site to bedsider and allows power to decide the ability to reach and engage with provider audiences. These platforms offer high-quality, evidence-informed sexual and reproductive health care information in support of people's reproductive well-being goals. Bedsider providers+ gives providers tools and messages to combat prevalent misinformation that patients encounter online and in social media. Power to decide evaluates, disseminates, and develops bedsider clinic materials and tools in english and spanish.abortionfinder.org simplifies the process of learning where and how to get an abortion in the u.s. This easy-to-use search tool is built on a database of more than 800 in-person and telehealth abortion providers across the country. It also contains information about abortion funds and practical support organizations, a breakdown of each state's abortion laws, and other resources to support abortion seekers. The database is regularly verified and updated by staff at power to decide. Abortionfinder.org is available in both english and spanish, and via text message services. Since launching in 2020, abortionfinder.org has helped millions of abortion seekers learn about their care options. Utilizing the same database as abortionfinder.org, the navigate platform is a centralized digital tool for patient navigators across organizations to use for making referrals and connecting with other patient navigators. The goals of navigate are to help patient navigators remove the barriers abortion seekers experience, to empower navigators to help abortion seekers quickly and effectively get the care and support they need, and to provide a secure, shared community space that can facilitate improved care coordination across organizations.powertodecide.org welcomed more than 500k visitors in 2025. The website serves as a clearinghouse of information on the organization and its myriad initiatives, offering clear and actionable research, the latest relevant information on policy, and ways individuals can get involved in improving reproductive well-being for all. The Missouri-based the right time initiative is the only effort of its kind that focuses on improving access to contraceptive services to those most in need by reducing cost, access, and knowledge barriers. Through a network of affiliated health centers and a robust communications effort led by power to decide, the right time makes all methods of contraception available at low- or no-cost to those who need them. Since 2019, the initiative has empowered individuals in Missouri to take control of their own health by improving information about, and removing barriers to, quality contraceptive services. To date, the initiative has provided quality contraceptive services to more than 180,000 people. The right time initiative uses a strategic, multi-channel advertising approach to reach missourians with clear, accessible information about birth control and available services. Campaigns span digital, social, influencer partnerships, sms, and out-of-home

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
• Program expense ratio: 88.1%; rating input score 88
• Fundraising efficiency: $22.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Pass
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • 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: 10.5%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.15; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 18.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings