Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
POWER TO DECIDE
POWER TO DECIDE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,519,861 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($17,750,295). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $47M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Power to Decide does
Mission
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 populations who face unique and often systemic barriers to achieving reproductive well-being, with a particular focus on adolescents, young adults, and those in underserved communities. Power to Decide affects change by working directly with its priority populations, as well as with those who influence and impact reproductive well-being of their priority populations, including providers, policymakers, researchers, and champions. Power to Decide accomplishes this by providing trusted information, expanding access to quality services, and catalyzing culture change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
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…
$4,849,896 spent$61,728 earned by the program43% of program spendingSystems and practices: Power to Decide's programs team leads community and campus-based initiatives that expand access to trusted sexual and reproductive health information while strengthening local capacity to support reproductive well-being. Reproductive well-being (rwb) efforts focus on empowering individuals and communities to make informed choices about their reproductive futures. By fostering collaboration and partnerships, Power to Decide engages local stakeholders to design and implement solutions tailored to the unique needs of each community, ensuring resources and support are accessible to all, especially those facing the greatest access barriers.over the past three years, through its contraceptive equity initiative (cei), Power to Decide partnered with organizations and initiatives across the country who are working to expand contraceptive access. These efforts, known as contraceptive access initiatives (cais), bring together partners across healthcare, public health, and community organizations to improve access in ways that reflect local needs. With community guidance and collaboration, Power to Decide developed a contraceptive access initiative (cai) toolkit…
$4,038,765 spentof which $590,942 as grants$214,888 earned by the program36% of program spendingMarketing & communications: the marketing and communications team at Power to Decide plays a pivotal role in advancing the organization's mission, ensuring that everyone has the information and resources they need to achieve and maintain their reproductive well-being. Through strategic press outreach, entertainment media partnerships, and the creation and dissemination of relevant, timely content, the team amplifies key messages and drives meaningful engagement. In november 2025, Power to Decide celebrated the 13th anniversary of thanks, birth control day, its cornerstone multi-platform campaign that empowers everyone to speak openly about all that birth control makes possible while reinforcing the critical importance of access. The campaign engaged a diverse array of participants - including media outlets, policymakers, and partner organizations through influencer partnerships and new creative assets. In just one month, #thxbirthcontrol sparked more than 89.8m engagements across social media platforms, expanding the conversation and deepening its impact. By leveraging rapid response efforts, targeted outreach, and prompt press release distribution, Power to Decide's expert…
$1,921,519 spent$1,665 earned by the program17% of program spendingPublic policy: Power to Decide's policy work focuses on protecting and expanding policies that empower people to decide if, when, and under what circumstances to get pregnant and have a child with an emphasis on addressing the needs of those who face the greatest barriers to information and care. These policies and programs enable people to achieve and maintain their reproductive well-being.Power to Decide's federal policy work focuses on advocacy to support policies that protect and expand access to contraception, abortion and sexual health information. Some key examples include developing new resources for policymakers to combat contraceptive mis and disinformation, working to push for a complete ban on abortion at the veterans administration, and pushing for continued funding for the title x family planning program. Like its federal work, Power to Decide's state work aims to inform and advance policies that reduce inequities in reproductive health care coverage, access, and information. Power to Decide maintains a state contraceptive access toolkit that tracks state policies that improve contraceptive access. Power to Decide has also provided technical assistance to additional…
$548,080 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,358,260.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $22M to $25M (+15%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 20% · 2018 18% · 2019 30% · 2020 5% · 2021 6% · 2022 6% · 2023 12% · 2024 11% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of POWER TO DECIDE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Marilyn Ayres Cfo Then
Int. Co-CEO/CFO (from 10/2025)
Board chair
Vincent Guilamo-Ramos
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $4.1M → $7.0M.
19 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of POWER TO DECIDE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
POWER TO DECIDE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund POWER TO DECIDE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 61% · 2019 68% · 2020 28% · 2021 78% · 2022 34% · 2023 34% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
37% of POWER TO DECIDE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
POWER TO DECIDE draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
POWER TO DECIDE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding POWER TO DECIDE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.4M on record — $9.4M federal, $375 state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$9.4M
- Accreditation/Certification$375
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like POWER TO DECIDE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Bedsider LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POWER TO DECIDE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds POWER TO DECIDE?
- POWER TO DECIDE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,519,861 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($17,750,295). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POWER TO DECIDE have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $46,519,861 in grants to POWER TO DECIDE, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POWER TO DECIDE?
- THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,750,295 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POWER TO DECIDE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 67 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing