Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America

Legal name: Susan B Anthony List Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
541850126
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Arlington, VA, US
Phone
202-223-8073
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$25,704,964
Expenses
$24,971,234
Assets
$9,698,409
Liabilities
$4,101,146

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

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Marjorie Dannenfelser (President)
  • William Valentine II (Vice President of Political Affairs)

Highest reported compensation

  • Marjorie Dannenfelser (President): $440,586 total reported compensation
  • Emily Midgette (Executive VP/Acting Secretary): $377,592 total reported compensation
  • Frank Cannon (Chief Political Strategist): $361,371 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

SBA Pro-Life America is a national pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion by electing pro-life leaders and advancing pro-life laws.

What it reported doing in 2024

Issue Advocacy Program - SBA List encouraged its membership to take action to help pass laws that save lives and to help defeat anti-life measures at the federal and state levels. Activists take action by signing petitions to Congress and state legislatures through the mail; using SBA List's online legislative action center to contact Congress and state legislatures through email or by phone; attending grassroots rallies; and by speaking out on social media. SBA List also launches paid media campaigns to educate and mobilize activists using TV ads, radio ads, newspaper ads, digital ads, and patch-through phone call campaigns. These grassroots efforts are reinforced through SBA List's lobbying team that directly lobbies Congress and state legislatures, and by SBA List's field team that organizes activists in key states. SBA List's top legislative priorities include passing gestational limitations on abortion; passing laws that prohibit taxpayer funding of abortion, especially through Obamacare; ending taxpayer funding for organizations that provide abortion services; defeating proposed bills that would expand abortion and/or taxpayer funding of abortion; passing laws that prohibit or regulate dangerous chemical abortion drugs; passing laws that expand the pro-life safety net for women and families; and passing laws that protect freedom of conscience, among others.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.7%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 82
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 17th 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: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.8%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 79.7% of revenue deployed · 81.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $20.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $441K · 17 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.7M reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 37 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 9 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D expense reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D revenue reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.