Eligible Recipients

Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life is in some ways the figurehead of the whole pro-life movement. Despite the name, this is more than just a professional association of pro-life priests. The activities of PFL are far-reaching, which helps explain why PFL has higher revenue and expenses than any other specifically pro-life nonprofit. PFL sponsors Rachel’s Vineyard, Silent No More, and other ministries. The central focus is on training and encouraging priests and deacons to speak effectively about abortion.

Human Coalition is a 2nd-generation pro-life group, formed relatively recently in 2009. They are using the power of the internet and big data to remarkable effect; essentially, they are focused on making sure that every abortion-minded pregnant woman knows she has other options through targeted ads online and elsewhere. As part of this effort, they operate a national crisis pregnancy helpline and refer callers to local pregnancy centers.

SFLA focuses on pro-life awareness, advocacy, and activism for students from middle school through college. They organize and sponsor student groups, and encourage and participate in marches and protests especially against Planned Parenthood.

The Thomas More Society is one of a number of conservative public interest law firms that provide donor-funded pro bono legal aid in worthy cases. The Thomas More Society is notable because it focuses almost exclusively on pro-life cases, especially legal kerfluffles over sidewalk activism, counseling, and prayer vigils in front of abortion clinics. The Society was founded in response to just such a case, NOW v Scheidler, which it eventually won over three U.S. Supreme Court appearances.

ALL is, in a sense, the Catholic version of National Right to Life Committee, and was formed when the Catholics split from NRLC in 1979. Note that NRLC is not separately included on this list because it’s a 501(c)(4) and not eligible for support through Tipping Point at this time. Whereas NRLC takes no position on contraception and generally lobbies for any pro-life legal advancement, ALL insists on “no exceptions” in any political efforts it endorses, and also invests in education and awareness against contraception and all other violations of the Catholic view of personhood and human dignity (euthanasia, IVF, etc.) ALL also encourages sidewalk presence and prayer as effective means to resist abortion.

Care Net, along with Heartbeat International, is one of the larger affiliate networks of local crisis pregnancy centers. Care Net is run by evangelical Christians and requires its affiliates to affirm an evangelical statement of faith. It requires that its affiliate centers do not refer for, or encourage, contraception as an alternative to abortion. Care Net has over 1,110 affiliates. These affiliates pay a nominal annual membership fee to gain access to the training, support, and resources that Care Net provides, but 95% of revenue is from donations. Care Net also maintains a national pregnancy helpline through which people in need are referred to their nearest local pregnancy center.

Save the Storks is a 5-year-old, 2nd generation pro-life organization offering a novel twist on traditional crisis pregnancy centers: take it on the road! They pioneered the “Stork Bus”, the mobile ultrasound unit, and now they raise money to help pay for the costs of new custom-made mobile units which are then provided to existing stationary pregnancy centers wanting to expand operations.

Live Action, founded and led by the charismatic Lila Rose, is a 2nd-generation organization with a focus on undercover exposés and awareness of Planned Parenthood et al for their illegal, questionable, and immoral behavior. For instance, Live Action has created a docuseries reporting on instances where Planned Parenthood has failed to report instances of sexual abuse of minors.

The Vitae Foundation is in the same niche as Human Coalition: advertising crisis pregnancy centers to abortion-minded women. The Vitae Foundation does this primarily through traditional media such as radio ad buys.

Life Legal is in the same niche as the Thomas More Society: pro bono legal support for pro-life causes. They are involved in defending David Daleiden and were also involved in the famous Terry Schiavo case.

Fr. Shenan Boquet of Human Life International travels the world to train priests and seminarians in the orthodox Catholic views of abortion, contraception, the theology of the body, and personhood generally, why these views matter, and how to talk to people about them. While explicitly Catholic, HLI will provide training, education, or support to pro-life leaders regardless of religious affiliation.

Heartbeat International joins Care Net as one of the two largest affiliate networks supporting local crisis pregnancy centers. Like Care Net, Heartbeat charges members a nominal membership fee but is 95% donor-supported. As the name suggests, Heartbeat supports many local affiliates around the globe: 2,600 affiliated centers in 55 countries. While Care Net is evangelical, Heartbeat is ecumenical.

AUL is primarily in the niche of drafting model legislation and lobbying for its implementation at the state and national levels. For instance, over the past decades, AUL drafted model legislation for fetal personhood laws and successfully lobbied to have these laws implemented in 38 states. AUL also files amicus curiae briefs in pro-life cases and lobbies for the federal government to investigate Planned Parenthood.

40 Days is a 2nd-generation organization that has attracted many new people to sidewalk counseling and prayer vigils at abortion clinics since it went national in 2007. The campaign works to encourage a 24/7 peaceful prayer witness at as many abortion facilities as possible around the world, for 40 days at a time, roughly twice per year. This obviously requires a great deal of manpower at each location, which helps to bring many ideological pro-lifers into activism for the first time. The organization spends its donated resources on training & supporting local volunteer leaders and inspiring people to start campaigns at new locations.

CFR’s primary task is to fight the “reproductive rights” agenda at the U.N. Anti-pro-life advocates are constantly trying to normalize abortion access as a basic human right around the globe by getting it codified as part of a package of reproductive rights at the U.N. Thanks to CFR’s work over the years, they haven’t succeeded yet. This fight needs to be fought every year in order to prevent a U.N. policy setback that would significantly hamper pro-life efforts in many countries around the world.

The Thomas More Law Center, not to be confused with the Thomas More Society, is in the same niche of providing pro bono legal support in worthy cases. Their mission is broader than just pro-life: they also take on cases of religious freedom for Christians, resisting state-enforced Islamic indoctrination in public schools, and more.

The SBA Education Fund, also known as the Charlotte Lozier Institute, is the 501(c)(3) arm of the Susan B Anthony List, which also operates a 501(c)(4) and a PAC. Overall, across these different legal entities, SBA’s work is to recruit and train pro-life politicians and generally help them to win elections. The Charlotte Lozier Institute does research and advocacy to increase awareness of facts and figures that support the pro-life position.

PRI attacks abortion around the globe by countering the argument that we need legal abortion, widespread contraception, sterilization, and other violations of human dignity in order to keep the human population down.

March for Life Education and Defense Fund sponsors and promotes the annual March for Life in DC, and several dozen others around the country, and the associated efforts related to promotion, advertising, generating turnout, etc.

Created Equal works primarily on college campuses and public places using large signs, billboards, overpass hangings, and the like, and trains college students as activists to accompany these signs and initiate peaceful conversations with passersby about abortion, to try to change minds and raise awareness through intellectual conversation.

CBR is best known for its unabashed use of graphic images—abortion gone wrong, mangled aborted fetuses, and the like. They display these images in campaigns in public places and on college campuses to raise awareness and change minds.

LifeSiteNews is the primary purveyor of pro-life and related news, and achieves a wide distribution through social media and email.

ATTWN is a second-generation nonprofit started by Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood clinic director-turned-Catholic-convert. Their focus is on encouraging abortionists and other clinic employees to leave the industry. They provide legal protection for whistleblowers, help with costs of living for people in transition, help securing new work for former abortion employees, and practice regular outreach to active employees encouraging them to leave. ATTWN has helped over 400 people to leave the abortion industry in the past six years.

PLAL was founded in 1980 by Joe Scheidler as a support network for the most dedicated pro-life activists. It encouraged, trained, and otherwise supported the people who were retrieving fetal remains from dumpsters and doing the first rescues or clinic blockades. Joe’s son Eric continues the family legacy now as Executive Director. PLAL’s activities today include promoting & sponsoring marches, protests, sidewalk counseling, prayer vigils, and similar forms of activism.

FRC is a leader in pro-life, pro-family media: promoting traditional Judeo-Christian values through social media, radio, press releases, public speeches, and more. FRC seeks to inform the news media, the academic community, business leaders, and the general public about family issues that affect the nation, in addition to providing policy research and analysis for the federal government.

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