By Carol Novielli

Were many Planned Parenthood affiliates already in dire financial trouble prior to the one-year defunding measure from Congress that was signed into law by President Trump in July? Recent reports indicate that over half of affiliates had expenses in excess of the revenue dollars they received.

What We Found:

• 24 out of 47 Planned Parenthood affiliates showed some sort of deficit in the most recently reported year.
• These deficits were recorded prior to the one-year defunding of Planned Parenthood and certain other abortion providers.
• This reveals that some Planned Parenthood affiliates were showing signs of potential financial troubles before any federal government dollars were removed.

The Backstory:

On July 4, 2025, the “Big, Beautiful Bill” was signed into law by President Trump and commenced on July 7, 2025. It removed Medicaid dollars from entities that provide abortion (as of October 1, 2025) and receive more than $800,000 in Medicaid expenditures (during a previous fiscal year).

In response, Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit against HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and immediately thereafter, an Obama-appointed judge issued a temporary restraining order (TRO), and a back and forth legal battle to defund Planned Parenthood began.

Then, on September 11, 2025, the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the preliminary injunctions issued on July 21 and 28, 2025, were stayed, allowing Planned Parenthood to be defunded while its lawsuit proceeds.

Live Action News has previously documented that years prior to the defund of Planned Parenthood (which began only a few months ago), plans were in place to close facilities or eliminate affiliates and restructure to an online (less expensive) Virtual Health Center business model.

Planned Parenthood’s (PP) claim that the defund is what has led to the shuttering of multiple brick and mortar facilities is a ruse to manipulate state lawmakers into funding them with state dollars.

As affiliates were showing a deficit, some staffers were complaining about pay cuts while executives were unwilling to slash their own pay to save those staffers’ jobs. In addition, donors at the abortion corporation were dropping out.

The Deficits:

For this analysis, operating deficits were calculated by Live Action News by subtracting expenses recorded at the affiliate level from revenue collected that year. (Excess revenue potentially carried over from the previous year or years was not factored.)

The deficits, which ranged from $1 million to more than $16 million, raise suspicions that approximately half of PP’s affiliates may have been having financial troubles well before the defund measure passed.

See below: (R=revenue/E=expenditures)

PP Association of Utah: -$4.4M (2023 990)

• $11.4M (R)/$15.8M (E)
• Nearly $9M spent on salaries, benefits, compensation

PP Columbia Willamette: -$6.8M (2023-24 AR)

• $26.5M (R)/$33.3M (E)
• Over $5M spent on “management and general”
• Previous years also recorded deficits (2022-23, 2020-21, 2019-2020).

PP Great Northwest, Hawaiʻi, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky: -$3.2M (2023 990)

• $72M (R)/$75.2M (E)
• $46M spent on salaries, benefits and other compensation
• Previous years also saw deficits (2021)

PP Great Plains: -$3M (2023 AR)

• $24M (R)/$27M (E)
• $5.2M deficit also shown in 2022
• $7-8M spent on salaries, benefits, compensation

PP Greater Ohio: -$8.2 (2023-24 AR)

• $37.4M (R)/$45.6 (E)
• Nearly $9M spent on “Management & General”
• Deficit in previous year (2022-23).

PP Greater Texas: -$16.5M (2023 990)

• $32M (R) /$48.5M (E)

PP Hudson Peconic: -$.4M (2024 AR)

• $26.4M (R)/$26.8M (E)

PP Keystone: -$1.2M (2023 990)

• $15.6M (R)/$16.8 (E)
• $8.3M spent on salaries, benefits, other compensation

PP League of Massachusetts: -$2.2M (2024 AR)

 

This appeared at Live Action News and reposted with permission.