Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Power to Decide
POWER TO DECIDE envisions a world where everyone - no matter who they are or where they live - has control over their bodies and can decide if, when, and under what circumstances to get pregnant and have a child. Its mission is to advance sexual and (continued on schedule o) reproductive well-being for all. POWER TO DECIDE supports…
- $591k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 79%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $418,972
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $28M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 79% of the organizations Power to Decide funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $591k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $683k | 79% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $295k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $366k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $436k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $218k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $1.6M | 64% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $840k | 58% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| My Health Ed Inc | $1,031,684 | 8 | 94% |
| Child Trends Inc | $759,413 | 3 | 1% |
| Appalshop Inc | $486,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | $309,684 | 2 | n/a |
| Capacity Builders Inc | $284,604 | 2 | 3% |
| Ask Boink Inc | $276,554 | 2 | n/a |
| Kentucky Health Justice Network Inc | $261,384 | 4 | 12% |
| Sentient Research | $254,937 | 2 | n/a |
| Westat Corp | $229,735 | 2 | n/a |
| Two X Two | $205,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| My Health Ed Inc | $1,031,684 | 8 | 94% |
| Child Trends Inc | $759,413 | 3 | 1% |
| Appalshop Inc | $486,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | $309,684 | 2 | n/a |
| Capacity Builders Inc | $284,604 | 2 | 3% |
| Ask Boink Inc | $276,554 | 2 | n/a |
| Kentucky Health Justice Network Inc | $261,384 | 4 | 12% |
| Sentient Research | $254,937 | 2 | n/a |
| Westat Corp | $229,735 | 2 | n/a |
| Two X Two | $205,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Novelly | $195,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Washington State Pharmacy Foundation | $189,264 | 2 | 64% |
| Teen Health Mississippi | $159,818 | 1 | 10% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $145,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Essential Access Health | $134,922 | 2 | 0% |
| Mississippi First Inc | $95,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Gush Productions LLC | $85,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Washington | $80,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of California San Francisco | $75,098 | 2 | n/a |
| Healthy Teen Network Inc | $70,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies | $70,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Marianne S Pantalon Phd LLC | $70,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Okayso | $65,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Florida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation Inc | $46,230 | 2 | 0% |
| Compassion Outreach of America | $36,230 | 2 | n/a |
| Henry Ford Health System | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Honestly Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| James Madison University | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Cardea Services | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Women's Birth and Wellness Center Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Hawaii Youth Services Network | $30,000 | 3 | 2% |
| I Be Black Girl | $26,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Univ of Texas at Arlington | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Asian Health Services | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Healthy Start Coalition of Hillsborough County Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The University of the Virgin Islands | $21,230 | 1 | n/a |
| Tuskegee University | $21,230 | 1 | 0% |
| Reuben V Anderson Center for Justice | $21,230 | 1 | 3% |
| United Way of Central New York Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Dillard University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Power to Decide supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: WK Kellogg Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Grove Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Power to Decide
- How much does Power to Decide give?
- Power to Decide reported 9 grants totaling $590,942 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Power to Decide fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (58%), Science & Tech (15%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Power to Decide's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: My Health Ed Inc ($1.0M), Child Trends Inc ($759k), Appalshop Inc ($486k).
- Does Power to Decide fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 79% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Power to Decide?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include WK Kellogg Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Grove Foundation.
- Where is Power to Decide based?
- Power to Decide is based in DC.
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