The MinistryWatch 1000 list for April features all 33 pro-life ministries in the database. They range from advocacy groups that lobby for pro-life policies to crisis pregnancy centers that encourage women daily to choose life over abortion.
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The ministries are listed in order of total annual revenue from largest to smallest. The total revenue for the pro-life ministries is about $233 million, with the top 10 ministries accounting for more than 50% of that revenue.
The largest group is Pre-Born. Founded in 2006, Pre-Born has been growing rapidly in the last few years. In 2019, Pre-Born’s annual revenue was $6.8 million, and in 2023 it exceeded $34.7 million. Pre-Born has been a MinistryWatch Shining Light award winner, meaning the ministry received the highest rating in each of our three categories—a 100 Donor Confidence Score, a 5-star financial efficiency rating, and an A Transparency Grade. However, it no longer will be filing Form 990s with the Internal Revenue Service according to its GuideStar profile, dropping its transparency grade to a C. Its Donor Confidence Score will also be reduced once three years has passed since it last filed a Form 990.
Not far behind Pre-Born in total annual revenue is Human Coalition with $30.7 million. Of that income, $18.2 million—more than half—was from government grants. Six of the pro-life groups listed received government grants, but none came near the total received by Human Coalition.
Care Net, a long-time participant in the pro-life arena, is sixth on the list of ministries. It recently announced a merger with ICU Mobile to expand its network of life-affirming care, so ICU Mobile no longer has its own entry in the database.
MinistryWatch added five new pro-life ministries to the database and the list this past year. They are Charlotte Lozier Institute (No. 5), Love Life (No. 16), National Right to Life Committee (No. 22), Embrace Grace (No. 25), and Council for Life (No. 27).
The addition of new ministries jostled some of the other pro-life group rankings. ThriVe St. Louis moved down the list from No. 11 last year to No. 15 this year, Crisis Pregnancy Center of Tidewater moved down to No. 17 from No. 12, and Americans United for Life moved from No. 19 to No. 23.