Florida · Nonprofit
PRIESTS FOR LIFE
PRIESTS FOR LIFE (Florida) receives grants from 99 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,307,700 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($983,966). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.5M
- Funders on record
- 99
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Priests for Life does
Mission
The vision of Priests for Life is a nation and culture where the children in the womb have the same respect and protection under the law as those who have been born and the violence of abortion is no longer tolerated. Our mission plays in helping to accomplish our vision which is to activate and equip Gods people to end abortion by increasing their awareness of the problem their understanding of how their faith impels them to address it and their access to the tools they need to do so.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Education of Clergy -In 2022 Priests for Life remained in the forefront of being physically present at pro-life conferences prayer vigils rallies Churches and schools as our pastoral team responded to invitations from pro-life groups large and small. We serve pro-life groups and dioceses without charge for our services or materials. Fr. Frank Pavone Fr. Denis Wilde Janet Morana Alveda King Theresa and Kevin Burke and Bryan Kemper were among those traveling and speaking nationwide to continue to educate and equip priests deacons and seminarians to effectively proclaim the pro-life message. We also participated by means of both taped and live video at other events including the International Week of Prayer and Fasting to End Abortion.
$946,062 spentof which $183,900 as grants11% of program spendingInternational Outreach - Priests for Life PFL continued throughout the year to enhance its international presence through increased participation in various fora provided by the United Nations the Organization for American States and Catholic Inspired NGOs. We expanded our outreach to a growing number of international prolife coalitions and collaborators in over 97 countries and helped make an impact in ending abortion around the world. PFL is in their 19th year defending unborn children and mothers as a Non-Governmental Organization NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council ECOSOC of the United Nations UN. We participated in meetings at the United Nations and collaborated with numerous pro-family NGOs to foster international policies protecting the dignity of human life at all stages. PFL participated virtually and in person in critical conferences in New York including the 60th Session of the Commission on Social Development in February the 66th Session of the Commission of the Status of Women in March and the 55th Session of the Commission on Population and Development in April. In May PFL participated in The Inter-American Commission on Human…
$759,090 spent9% of program spendingMedia - In addition to our own broadcasting and our EWTN programs our pastoral team conducted numerous interviews for the national Christian conservative and secular print radio television and online media. Throughout the year Priests for Life team members continued to write opinion pieces that were published regularly by outlets like Newsmax Breitbart LifeNews.com Washington Examiner Town Hall National Catholic Register Catholic Online and many others. In 2022 the Priests for Life team wrote 58 op-eds which was an increase of 6 from 2021. Several radio interviews were on Point of View American Family Radio EWTN Radio Ave Maria Radio and The Catholic Channel on SIRIUS XM. We were present on various television networks including FOX News Newsmax Catholic Faith Network Christian Broadcasting and One America News. The media exposure of Priests for Life increased exponentially following the laicization of Fr. Frank and we used the extra interview opportunities to convey our message about the priority of the abortion issue and the urgency of fostering healing after abortion.
$738,364 spent9% of program spending4. Online Broadcasting - Our online broadcasting effort from our TV studio at our Priests for Life headquarters brings our programming to multiple social media platforms as well as video-sharing channels including ROKU Google Play Android TV Apple TV and Apple IOS. In 2022 we launched Pro-life Primetime News a program co-hosted by our Communications Director and our Executive Manager bringing up to the minute pro-life news and commentary from every facet of the movement to end abortion. This year we also launched EndAbortion.US a new program co-hosted by our National Director and Executive Director. We began taping revised versions of our weekly liturgical updates pro-life reflections on the Sunday readings as well as Pro-life Minute and Pro-life Reflections for Every Day. In 2022 we continued offering the Daily Masses and homilies as well as lay-led Scripture reflections the daily Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet in English and Spanish a joint production of Priests for Life and Right Side Broadcasting Network called Praying for America and our Executive Director Janet Moranas program called Just Ask Janet. As mentioned above the broadcasts also include a Daily Diary segment in…
$592,754 spent7% of program spending5.Priests for Life Publishing - The publishing arm of Priests for Life continued to produce resources for the pro-life movement. Janet Moranas new book Everything You Need to Know About Abortion-for Teens was a big hit this year and she gave many presentations throughout the pro-life movement and in the media about it. Fr. Frank Pavone likewise published three new prayer booklets in his six-part series which are In the Power of His Spirit In the Embrace of His Mother and In the Company of His Saints. He also wrote new brochures on the issue of pro-abortion politicians and Communion an expanded commentary on the Dobbs decision and brochures about how to help pastors address abortion.
$548,643 spent7% of program spending6. EWTN Program Publications - The two series which Priests for Life produces for EWTN namely Defending Life and The Catholic View for Women continued airing in 2022. Priests for Life was able to tape new episodes of Defending Life right in our studio at Priests for Life headquarters in Titusville Florida.
$526,873 spent6% of program spending7. My Heart Beats Just Like Yours - This Campaign www.MyHeartBeatsJustLikeYours.com introduces people to the unborn child utilizing the latest imagery of the baby in the womb at 7 8 9 and 10 weeks after fertilization continued in 2022. We created a new exhibit booth which we used at conferences such as Heartbeat International and other pro-life gatherings. The highlight of the booth is an enlarged image of the baby as conveyed in these latest professional photos.
$482,619 spent6% of program spending8. Reversal of Roe vs. Wade - Priests for Life was among those who announced to the world the reversal of Roe v Wade by the Dobbs decision of the Supreme Court. Fr. Frank Pavone Janet Morana and Bryan Kemper were conducting a live broadcast at the moment the Court released its decision. From his position at the National Right to Life Convention which was in progress Fr. Frank read aloud the holding of the decision less than a minute after it was released. Since then through articles brochures numerous interviews and our own broadcasts as well as speeches at pro-life conventions and leading pro-life strategy sessions Priests for Life has helped the movement understand this new chapter in its history and build on it.
$432,873 spent5% of program spending9. Good Shepherd Project - The Good Shepherd Project www.TheGoodShepherdProject.com continued this year with renewed efforts to assist the clergy to teach counsel and preach regarding abortion and the defense of the unborn. We created new brochures for this outreach which are Help Your Priests and Deacons End Abortion and the interdenominational brochure titled Help Your Pastor End Abortion.
$421,702 spent5% of program spending10. Voter Education - Priests for Life was a leading catalyst in the pro-life and Catholic world for voter education and mobilization for the 2022 midterm elections at every level of government. We conducted in-person and online trainings as well as broadcasts social media posts email and snail mail communications as well as preaching in Churches speaking at conferences and participating in regular conference calls in order to educate about the topics that were being voted on. We gave leaders activists and citizens nationwide an opportunity to examine the issues know the candidates and utilize the voting process in the most effective way.
$410,752 spent5% of program spending11. Pro-life Leadership Coalition - Both on the federal and state level the Priests for Life team worked for public policies advancing the protection of the unborn. Several measures to increase protections for babies who survive abortion protect tax dollars from paying for abortion and set gestational limits on abortion. Priests for Life has led and participated in discussions among pro-life leaders to determine the best goals to set for Congress on these matters. Priests for Life also assisted states that had pro-life ballot measures in 2022 particularly in Kansas or had to fight against pro-abortion measures particularly in California and Michigan. Our work with pro-life leaders has also focused on increasing national-to-state collaboration so that every state battle receives national support from the pro-life movement
$405,554 spent5% of program spending12.Rachels Vineyard - Rachels Vineyard RV the largest ministry in the world for healing after abortion that offers retreats for healing has been praised personally by Pope Francis and enjoys the endorsement of bishops around the world. This ministry continued to hold around the world its retreats based on the Word of God the sacraments and sound psychological research. 2022 marked Dr. Theresa Burkes 37th year of doing ministry with those who have suffered the loss of a child through abortion. In 2022 there were 10 new International and 6 new National Rachels Vineyard sites approved. Dr. Theresa Burke had several speaking engagements one of which she was the main presenter at the Rachels Vineyard Night of Healing in November. Dr. Theresa Burke and Kevin Burke were interviewed for 16 different pieces that were published or aired on the following outlets: Pregnancy Help News LifeSite News Soul Catholic Online LifeNews and The Stream. The RV website offers several resources that can be very useful for women and men looking for help after an abortion. The website can be viewed at: www.rachelsvineyard.org. RV posts videos to the Rachels Vineyard Channel on YouTube at: www.youtube.com…
$359,281 spentof which $359,281 as grants4% of program spending13. Honoring Aborted Babies - Priests for Life was involved both behind the scenes and publicly in advocating for the babies whose bodies were recovered from a medical waste truck in Washington DC arranging for their burial showing the images of their bodies and calling for an investigation into whether any laws were broken when they were killed. Priests for Life also held a National Day of Reparation for Baby Amanda Marie who was killed by an abortion whose audio was aired by NPR in an attempt to trivialize abortion.
$352,687 spent4% of program spending14. Youth Outreach - The founder and director of Stand True is Bryan Kemper who travels the nation and the world mobilizing youth to stand up for the unborn and providing them cutting edge resources to do so. Each year Stand True sponsors the Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity on which thousands of students express their opposition to abortion and their solidarity with its silent victims by spending the whole day without saying a word. They also promote National Pro-Life T-shirt day by which countless people spread the pro-life message by what they wear. Stand True leads the way in utilizing social media to reach encourage and mobilize the youngest generation of pro-life activists and they help train other pro-life leaders and groups on how to use the power of social media to help the cause of life. In 2022 Stand True was present at the March for Life in Washington DC. Youth Outreach Director Bryan Kempers new book Pro-life is the New Punk Rock was finalized and was released in January 2022.
$349,895 spent4% of program spending15. The Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues PNCI - PNCI based in Washington D.C. continued its mission to advance respect for life from conception to natural death around the world in 2022. PNCI networked with like-minded individuals and organizations and key parliamentarians and staff to counter the promotion of the culture of death by international and regional organizations by pro-abortion lawmakers and by radical pro-abortion groups. PNCI shared information through its newsletters updates emails and website www.PNCIUS.org on pro-life efforts and successes internationally and on actions that threaten respect for life. It operated under two levels of information sharing-public and internal- with partner organizations individuals and google group coalitions for a number of global regions and the United Nations UN. PNCI monitored actions on the legislative judicial and executive levels around the world that affect respect for life and assisted Priest for Life in its pro-life advocacy to the United Nations. The top pro-life news item of global interest in 2022 was the overturning of Roe v Wade in the Dobbs decision. PNCI wrote PFL submissions and worked with Priests for Lifes…
$343,923 spent4% of program spending16. Silent No More Awareness Campaign SNM - The Silent No More Awareness Campaign www.SilentNoMore.com was co-founded by our Executive Director Janet Morana along with Georgette Forney of Anglicans for Life. Throughout 2022 the Campaign continued its public witness at gatherings and online as well as its multiple educational and broadcast initiatives. Our healing initiatives are part and parcel of the Abortion Recovery Coalition which brings together similar ministries and provides a monthly opportunity for dialogue shared prayer and discussion. In 2022 we drew special attention to the observance of Abortion Recovery Awareness Month in April. Special educational and pastoral broadcasts and communications to the Churches were among the tools utilized hence alerting others to the harm of abortion consoling them with the awareness that there is hope and healing and advancing the New Evangelization by assuring all those who feel alienated from God and the Church that we have a great and merciful High Priest in Jesus Christ. Gatherings that were held around the country and the world broadcasts and personal sharing brought these testimonies to thousands of people.
$324,411 spent4% of program spending17. Deacons for Life - In 2022 we continued the outreach of Deacons for Life around the country communicating with deacons by mail email fax and special Zoom calls to assist them in the pro-life dimensions of their ministry.
$322,398 spent4% of program spending
The 17 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,317,881.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $8.2M to $5.4M (−35%).
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.
100% of PRIESTS FOR LIFE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Janet Morana
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $283k → $474k.
23 of 99 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 PRIESTS FOR LIFE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 99 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
PRIESTS FOR LIFE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
84% 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 PRIESTS FOR LIFE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 38% · 2019 21% · 2020 30% · 2021 35% · 2022 23% · 2023 32% — 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
52% of PRIESTS FOR LIFE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
71% of PRIESTS FOR LIFE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $974k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 32 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
PRIESTS FOR LIFE's revenue fell 19% between 2020 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PRIESTS FOR LIFE
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PRIESTS FOR LIFE?
- PRIESTS FOR LIFE (Florida) receives grants from 99 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,307,700 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($983,966). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PRIESTS FOR LIFE have?
- IRS filings report 99 organizations giving $3,307,700 in grants to PRIESTS FOR LIFE, 72 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRIESTS FOR LIFE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $983,966 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRIESTS FOR LIFE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 99 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing