Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$8,319,668

Total expenses

$11,043,817

Contributions and grants received

$8,312,185

Grants paid

$396,133

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$7,483

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$5,386,801

Total liabilities, end of year

$523,782

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$4,863,019

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$8,413,527

Management and general expenses

$1,614,363

Fundraising expenses

$1,015,927

Program service expenses (Part III)

$8,413,527

Program services were 76.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2023

• Education of Clergy -In 2023 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. Frank Pavone Fr. Denis Wilde OSA Fr. David Begany SSJ 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. The 2023 events included the three main national conferences of pregnancy center directors staff: Heartbeat International Care Net and the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates NIFLA as well as the National Right to Life Convention the 40 Days for Life Symposium the March for Life and Walk for Life West Coast various state marches Arizona California Michigan and various political conferences CPAC Road to Majority Turning Point USA America First Policy Institute Christian music festivals parish and school visits pregnancy center banquets and more.

  Expenses $3,365,411

• International Outreach - Priests for Life PFL continued throughout the year to enhance its international presence through increased participation in various forums 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 98 countries and helped make an impact in ending abortion around the world. PFL is in their 20th 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 prepared and submitted our Quadrennial Report to ECOSOC and it is currently under review by the NGO Committee. 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 61st Session of the Commission on Social Development in February the 67th Session of the Commission of the Status of Women in March and the 56th Session of the Commission on Population and Development in April. In June PFL participated virtually at the OAS 53rd Regular Session of the General Assembly and in September we participated in High-Level Political Forum SDG Summit in New York. In October PFL was part of the Geneva Consensus Declaration and in November we participated in the UNs 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  Expenses $2,103,382

• Media - In addition to our own broadcasting 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.com The Gateway Pundit The Washington Times LifeNews.com Washington Examiner Catholic Online and many others. In 2023 Priests for Life made use of a major media firm to build on our increased presence in secular and conservative media.

  Expenses $1,262,028

• 4. 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 2023 we introduced Pro-life Update with Bishop Strickland a regular discussion between Frank Pavone and Bishop Joseph Strickland about the landscape of the pro-life movement. Additionally the launch of Janet Reacts a segment by our Executive Director Janet Morana giving a quick response to news developments or public commentary on the abortion issue. We continued the show Pro-life Primetime News a program hosted by our Communications Director bringing up to the minute pro-life news and commentary from every facet of the movement to end abortion. Also EndAbortion.US co-hosted by our National Director and Executive Director. In 2023 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 which Fr. Frank Pavone discusses what he did from morning to night on each day. Our social media outreach grew dramatically in 2023 on every platform. These programs also air on our podcast called the End Abortion Podcast which continues to rank as the number 1 podcast on abortion.

  Expenses $308,539

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  Expenses $160,559

• 7. 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 2023. We continued to our 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.

  Expenses $177,247

• 9. 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 and to promote and urgently invite people to the healing and reconciliation available after abortion. Monthly live broadcasts feature the priests deacons and other experts on our pastoral team addressing clergy directly about how to deal effectively with the abortion issue in prayer preaching teaching and parish school activities. The broadcast also explains to laity how to encourage and equip the clergy on these matters.

  Expenses $227,245

• 10. Voter Education - Priests for Life has become a leading catalyst in the pro-life and Catholic world for voter education. Throughout 2023 we conducted broadcasts social media email and snail mail communications along with preaching in Churches speaking at conferences and participating in regular conference calls.

  Expenses $71,185

• 11. 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. Throughout 2023 Priests for Life continued to organize and build up effective working coalitions of the national pro-life groups and coordinate their meetings held in Washington DC three times during the year and a fourth three-day meeting held at our headquarters in Titusville Florida. In between those in-person meetings we also led numerous leaders meetings via Zoom. Priests for Life also coordinated meetings of state leaders in those states facing pro-abortion ballot measures and has led the National to State Collaboration by which national groups assist the state groups that are fighting the pro-abortion ballot initiatives.

  Expenses $60,053

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  Expenses $314,223 · Grants $314,223

• 13. 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.

  Expenses $81,322

• 14. 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 2023 Stand True was present at the March for Life in Washington DC. Youth Outreach Director Bryan Kemper also laid the groundwork in 2023 for two special projects of our Youth Outreach for 2024: the Pro-life Women In History Month and the National Pro-life Essay Contest.

  Expenses $103,939

• 15. 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 2023. 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 sharingpublic 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. PNCI wrote PFL submissions and worked with Priests for Lifes International Outreach Department to voice concern for the lives of unborn children and their mothers to oppose the violence of abortion and to collaborate with other pro-life organizations in opposing promotion of abortion and supporting international policies protecting the dignity of human life at all stages.

  Expenses $138,257

• 16. 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.

  Expenses $40,137

As filed on the 2023 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• Rachel s Vineyard Ministries

  $314,233

  Program support

• CBR

  $50,000

  Program support

• Focus on the Family

  $6,900

  General operating support to assist the organization in carrying out its charitable programs.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

19 November 2025

IRS schema version

2023v6.0

Source object

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