C ONCERNED W OMEN FOR A MERICA 1015 Fifteenth St., N.W. • Suite 1100 • Washington, D.C. 20005 • Phone (202) 488-7000 • Fax (202) 488-0806 • www.cwfa.org The Link between The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and Planned Parenthood By Brenda Zurita Most people recognize the name “Susan G. Komen for the Cure” (Komen) and know someone who has walked in a Komen for the Cure event. The television ads are touching, with stories of joy, sadness, hope, and friendship. Anyone who has been affected by cancer as a patient, family member, or friend cannot help but relate to the emotions of the women, men, and children participating in these events. The participants wish to raise awareness about breast cancer, show the world the accomplishments of cancer patients and survivors, and honor special people in their lives who live with or were lost to breast cancer. There are times though when someone asked to support a friend, co-worker, relative, or acquaintance in one of these races faces an awkward moment, because the person being asked to donate is strongly pro-life and disagrees with what some of the Komen affiliates do with donations. As the Internal Revenue Service Forms 990, filed each year by the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc., show, since the 2005-2006 fiscal year, 33 of the more than 120 Komen affiliates provided grants (some only once, some each year, some small, and some large) to Planned Parenthood for “breast cancer screening, education and treatment.” It is ironic that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization, dedicated to saving lives, grants funds to the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. As Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse, Director and Senior Fellow for Concerned Women for America’s Beverly LaHaye Institute, pointed out in her recent paper, “Cutting the Cord: The Case for Defunding Planned Parenthood,” in 2008-2009 Planned Parenthood received $363 million in government grants and other taxpayer funds. 1 In that same year, Dr. Crouse’s report points out that Planned Parenthood performed more than 324,000 abortions. 2 According to Planned Parenthood’s annual report, the gross revenue from its affiliates and national office was $1.1 billion for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009. 3 Contrast that with Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s gross revenue for the fiscal year 2008, ending March 31, 2009; it was just shy of $347 million. 4 Komen took in one third of the gross revenues of Planned Parenthood, and less than what Planned Parenthood receives in federal funds, and yet, in 2008-2009, 20 Komen affiliates gave $731,304 to Planned Parenthood affiliates as the charts in this report show. In the past five fiscal years, Komen affiliates have given Planned Parenthood affiliates a combined total of $2,358,995. The breakdown by fiscal year is: 23 Komen affiliates gave Planned Parenthood $754,995 in fiscal year 2005.
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The Link between The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
and Planned Parenthood By Brenda Zurita
Most people recognize the name “Susan G. Komen for the Cure” (Komen) and know someone who has walked in a
Komen for the Cure event. The television ads are touching, with stories of joy, sadness, hope, and friendship. Anyone
who has been affected by cancer as a patient, family member, or friend cannot help but relate to the emotions of the
women, men, and children participating in these events. The participants wish to raise awareness about breast cancer,
show the world the accomplishments of cancer patients and survivors, and honor special people in their lives who live
with or were lost to breast cancer.
There are times though when someone asked to support a friend, co-worker, relative, or acquaintance in one of these
races faces an awkward moment, because the person being asked to donate is strongly pro-life and disagrees with what
some of the Komen affiliates do with donations. As the Internal Revenue Service Forms 990, filed each year by the
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc., show, since the 2005-2006 fiscal year, 33 of the more than 120 Komen
affiliates provided grants (some only once, some each year, some small, and some large) to Planned Parenthood for
“breast cancer screening, education and treatment.”
It is ironic that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization, dedicated to saving lives, grants funds to the nation’s
largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.
As Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse, Director and Senior Fellow for Concerned Women for America’s Beverly LaHaye Institute,
pointed out in her recent paper, “Cutting the Cord: The Case for Defunding Planned Parenthood,” in 2008-2009 Planned
Parenthood received $363 million in government grants and other taxpayer funds.1 In that same year, Dr. Crouse’s
report points out that Planned Parenthood performed more than 324,000 abortions.2 According to Planned
Parenthood’s annual report, the gross revenue from its affiliates and national office was $1.1 billion for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 2009.3
Contrast that with Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s gross revenue for the fiscal year 2008, ending March 31, 2009; it was
just shy of $347 million.4 Komen took in one third of the gross revenues of Planned Parenthood, and less than what
Planned Parenthood receives in federal funds, and yet, in 2008-2009, 20 Komen affiliates gave $731,304 to Planned
Parenthood affiliates as the charts in this report show. In the past five fiscal years, Komen affiliates have given Planned
Parenthood affiliates a combined total of $2,358,995. The breakdown by fiscal year is:
23 Komen affiliates gave Planned Parenthood $754,995 in fiscal year 2005.
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10 Komen affiliates gave Planned Parenthood $105,503 in fiscal year 2006.
12 Komen affiliates gave Planned Parenthood $188,514 in fiscal year 2007.
20 Komen affiliates gave Planned Parenthood $731,304 in fiscal year 2008.
19 Komen affiliates gave Planned Parenthood $578,679 in fiscal year 2009.
This report contains a complete list of all Komen for the Cure affiliates that have given money to Planned Parenthood
since 2005 for breast cancer education, screening, and treatment. The source for the fiscal year (April 1-March 31) data
is the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc.-Group Return Forms 990 for these years: 20055; 20066; 20077;
20088; and 20099. It should be noted that the national Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation did not make any
grants to any Planned Parenthood; the decision to give or not give grant money to Planned Parenthood is made by the
Komen affiliates. More than one-fourth of Komen affiliates gave grant money to Planned Parenthood at least once in
the past five years. The final audit for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010, stated that, “Up to 75% of the net proceeds
generated by the Affiliates are used to fund breast cancer education, treatment, and screening projects within local
communities. The remaining 25% is used to fund breast cancer research and project grants on a national level.”10
In June 2011, Susan G. Komen for the Cure issued a statement11 regarding affiliate funding to local Planned Parenthoods.
In part, the letter says, “The decision to fund any breast health and screening program is based on a thorough
assessment of a community’s breast health needs and resources. In some areas of the U.S., our affiliates have
determined a Planned Parenthood clinic to be the best or only local place where women can receive breast health care.”
As the individual charts below show, there are multiple local organizations the affiliates fund; all but two of the Komen
affiliates fund at least ten. The affiliates in urban areas fund many more:
Central and South Jersey: 56
Central New York: 40
Connecticut: 34
Denver: 53
Greater New York: 56
Los Angeles: 47
Milwaukee: 36
NC Triangle: 67
Orange County: 58
Philadelphia: 47
Phoenix: 51
Puget Sound: 55; and
South Florida: 42
As the Komen Planned Parenthood letter explains, “In all cases, Komen funding is used exclusively to provide breast cancer programs, including clinical breast exams conducted by trained medical personnel. When symptoms indicate a need for further screening, patients are provided with a referral to obtain a mammogram. Depending on local resources, that mammogram may be paid for using a Komen grant. It’s important to note that Komen will only make grants to non-profit organizations. As many mammography providers are for-profit entities, we are only to fund mammography services through grants made to local non-profit service providers.”12
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This is interesting as, technically, Planned Parenthood is a non-profit. However, as Dr. Crouse pointed out in her report, Planned Parenthood has shown a profit every year since 2000, and the profits ranged from a low of $12 million in 2001-2002 to a high of $114 million in 2006-2007.13 And on top of that, Komen gives grants to non-profits which, in turn, may give assistance to women to obtain mammograms from for-profit mammogram providers. Planned Parenthood would be one of those middlemen, as they do not actually provide mammograms.
The Komen statement also says, “During the past five years, Komen Affiliate grants to Planned Parenthood have funded 139,000 clinical breast exams and nearly 5,000 mammograms, enabling the detection of 177 breast cancers.”14 Planned Parenthood’s CEO, Cecile Richards, appeared on the Joy Behar show in early 2011 to defend federal funding for Planned Parenthood against the move to defund it through the Pence Amendment and claimed, “If this bill ever becomes law, millions of women in this country are gonna lose their healthcare access — not to abortion services — to basic family planning, you know, mammograms.”15 Lila Rose and the Live Action group exposed this as a lie. Live Action phoned and recorded calls with 30 Planned Parenthood clinics in 27 states and asked about getting a mammogram. All 30 clinics told the callers they had to go elsewhere for a mammogram.16
The Komen statement also says, “Under no circumstances are Komen funds used to fund abortions or other non-breast services, and any service provider shown to violate those rules would be immediately terminated from the Komen grant program.”17 While no funds are used to fund abortions according to Komen, it is naïve to believe that Planned Parenthood’s abortion business does not benefit from these grants. If Planned Parenthood has set expenses that occur monthly when a grant is received, it frees up some of the money that would cover expenses for other uses, such as providing abortion services. In other words, the funds are fungible. Abby Johnson, the former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas, has acknowledged, “As clinic director, I saw how money received by Planned Parenthood affiliate clinics all went into one pot at the end of the day — it isn’t divvied up and directed to specific services.”18 This quote applies to all funds received by Planned Parenthood affiliates, including grants from Komen for the Cure affiliates.
The contact information for the affiliates that currently support or have supported Planned Parenthood in the past is included in case readers wish to contact the Komen affiliates to express their opinion about those grants or to find out if the affiliate will continue to fund Planned Parenthood in future years. As the chart shows, some affiliates funded Planned Parenthood in earlier fiscal years but currently do not. Other affiliates do not fund Planned Parenthood every year but do so sporadically.
Susan G. Komen for the Cure has built a large network of affiliates and garnered a lot of community support to fund breast cancer research, treatment, and education around the world, and those efforts should be commended. However, while it is each Komen affiliate’s prerogative to provide grants to whichever group they choose, it is also the prerogative of pro-life advocates to decide not to donate to them. Helping save adult lives should not be done in partnership with organizations that abort babies.
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Komen and Planned Parenthood
Note: The Accrued Amount column is included because some funds were given before FY 2005, which this column reflects and
because some of the Accrued Amounts are larger than the Amount Paid from the prior year. Obviously additional money was given,
but it is not clear from when or where the funds appeared.
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3 Planned Parenthood Federation of America, “Annual Report 2008-2009: The Promise of Change,” 2010, 29,
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/PPFA/PPFA_Annual_Report_08-09-FINAL-12-10-10.pdf, accessed September 29, 2011. 4 Susan G. Komen for the Cure, “Annual Report 2008-2009: Impact of a Promise,” 16,
http://ww5.komen.org/uploadedFiles/Content/AboutUs/Financial/new-2008-2009AnnualReport-final.pdf, accessed September 29, 2011. 5 The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. Group Return, 2005 Form 990, Part II, Line 22, Grants Allocations, Year Ended March 31,
2006, pages 1- 52, http://ww5.komen.org/uploadedFiles/Content_Binaries/2005-2006_Group_Form_990_033106.pdf, accessed September 29, 2011.
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6 The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. Group Return, 2006 Form 990, Part II, Line 22, Grants Allocations, Year Ended March 31,
2007, pages 1- 61, http://ww5.komen.org/uploadedFiles/Content_Binaries/2007_Form_990_Group_Return.pdf, accessed September 29, 2011. 7 The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. Group Return, 2007 Form 990, Part II, Line 22, Grants Allocations, Year Ended March 31,
2008, page 2 of 58, http://ww5.komen.org/uploadedFiles/Content_Binaries/2007-2008_Form990GroupReturn.pdf, accessed September 29, 2011. 8 The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. Group Return, 2008 Form 990, Schedule I, Part II, Grants Other Assistance to Governments
and Organizations in the U.S., Year Ended March 31, 2008, page 1 of 29, http://ww5.komen.org/uploadedFiles/Content/AboutUs/Financial/Komen%20Group%202008%20990_PIC_Delivered_CD_23Dec09.pdf, accessed September 29, 2011. 9 The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. Group Return, 2009 Form 990, Schedule I, Part II, Grants Other Assistance to Governments
and Organizations in the U.S., Year Ended March 31, 2009, page 1 of 29, http://ww5.komen.org/uploadedFiles/Content/AboutUs/Financial/Final%20Group%20990%20PDC.pdf, accessed September 29, 2011. 10
Ernst & Young LLP, “Consolidated Financial Statements and Supplemental Schedules: The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. dba Susan G. Komen for the Cure and Affiliates, Years Ended March 31, 2010 and 2009,” November 18, 2010, 7, http://ww5.komen.org/uploadedFiles/Content/AboutUs/Financial/AUDIT_FINAL_FY2010.pdf, accessed September 29, 2011. 11
Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Official Statements, “Planned Parenthood,” June 2011, http://ww5.komen.org/uploadedFiles/Content_Binaries/PlannedParenthoodLetter62011.pdf, accessed September 29, 2011. 12
Ibid. 13
Crouse, “Cutting the Cord,” Appendix II. 14
Komen, “Planned Parenthood.” 15
Live Action News and Opinion Blog, “Planned Parenthood CEO’s False Mammogram Claim Exposed,” March 30, 2011, http://liveaction.org/blog/planned-parenthood-ceos-false-mammogram-claim-exposed/, accessed September 29, 2011. 16
Ibid. 17
Komen, “Planned Parenthood.” 18
Americans United for Life, “The Case for Investigating Planned Parenthood,” July 7, 2011, 15, http://www.aul.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/PPReport_MAIN-REPORT_Download.pdf, accessed September 29, 2011.