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Pro-Life Action Ministries Inc

Pro-Life Action Ministries Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,223,479 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($600,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$1.9M
17/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Pro-Life Action Ministries Inc does

Mission

Pro-Life Action Ministries, Inc. is an interdenominational Christian organization dedicated to publicly defending the sanctity of human life & saving lives from abortion, infanticide & euthanasia through peaceful direct-action & education projects.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Sidewalk counseling and exercise of constitutional liberties educating the public - estimated at 45%

    $582,282 spent
    45% of program spending
  2. Production of newsletter, brochures, tracts and distribution of books and films to educate the public - estimated at 32%

    $414,067 spent
    32% of program spending
  3. Speaking in person to educate the public - estimated at 20%

    $258,792 spent
    20% of program spending
  4. Attendance at conventions and booth display to educate the public - estimated at 3%

    $38,819 spent
    3% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,293,960.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($712k) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 91 ($1.1M) Expenses 110 ($785k) Net assets 116 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 96 ($1.1M) Expenses 166 ($1.2M) Net assets 113 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 99 ($1.2M) Expenses 157 ($1.1M) Net assets 116 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue 109 ($1.3M) Expenses 191 ($1.4M) Net assets 111 ($1.9M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (109)Expenses (191)Net assets (111)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.7M to $2.0M (+16%).

$1.7M
$2.0M
$2.0M
$2.0M
$1.9M
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$459k
’21
$280k
’22
−$53k
’23
$47k
’24
−$80k
’25
16
months of
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.

20212022202320242025
Listed88887
Joined·+2+0+1+0
No longer listed·2011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $35k → $165k.

9 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 Pro-Life Action Ministries Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

Pro-Life Action Ministries Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

88% 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 Pro-Life Action Ministries Inc.

49%
largest funder
71%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 64% · 2019 58% · 2020 52% · 2021 45% · 2022 29% · 2023 30% — broadly stable.

“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

75% of Pro-Life Action Ministries Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

84% of Pro-Life Action Ministries Inc'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 $195k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Minnesota funders.

MN
IL
MI
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Pro-Life Action Ministries Inc

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 Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 4%Fundraising 1%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

63%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • PLAM Action · exempt

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Pro-Life Action Ministries Inc?
Pro-Life Action Ministries Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,223,479 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($600,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Pro-Life Action Ministries Inc have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,223,479 in grants to Pro-Life Action Ministries Inc, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Pro-Life Action Ministries Inc?
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Pro-Life Action Ministries Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 22 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