Of the direct Title X family planning funding recipients in the U.S., 90% are not Planned Parenthood facilities. Nine out of 86 Title X grant recipients for 2024 were Planned Parenthood facilities — and of all Title X service sites, the abortion corporation makes up a small, single-digit percentage.
Yet the media would have the public believe that cutting Planned Parenthood funding would devastate women.
As Live Action News previously reported, “Women will not be harmed if Planned Parenthood is defunded; the abortion corporation serves just two percent (2%) of all women of reproductive age in the United States, and its facilities are outnumbered 25 to 1 by Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), which can give low-income women the health care they and their children need — without killing their preborn children.”
The Title X program, which to this day allocates millions of federal taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood and other family planning organizations, has historically been viewed with suspicion for targeting “low-income,” impoverished Americans. There is good reason for this.
After all, Title X is administered through the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). As of 2025, Title X operates with an annual budget of approximately $286.5 million.
Federal programs like this one prohibit recipients from committing acts of fraud, racism or discrimination, and require mandatory reporting of sexual abuse and privacy protections. As Live Action News previously documented, Planned Parenthood has violated these prohibitions. This should disqualify the corporation from receiving federal taxpayer dollars.
Recipients and sub-recipients must comply with Title X rules
The Title X handbook for 2022 (updated December of 2024) makes clear that “no provider of services under title X of the PHS Act shall be exempt from any State law requiring notification or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest” and that recipients must protect patient privacy and they cannot discriminate on the basis of race, religion, or sex, etc.
The Title X program consists of “grantees,” or “direct recipient[s]” of Title X funds, defined as “the entity that receives Federal financial assistance by means of a grant, and assumes legal and financial responsibility and accountability for the awarded funds, for the performance of the activities approved for funding and for reporting required information to the Office of Population Affairs.”
Title X funding can also be sent from direct recipients to “sub-recipients” (defined as “entities that provide family planning services with Title X funds under a written agreement with a grantee”), and the OPA says the sub-recipient also has an “obligation… to comply with Title X requirements. A sub-recipient “receives a sub-award from a pass-through entity to carry out part of a Federal program; but does not include an individual that is a beneficiary of such program. A subrecipient may also be a recipient of other Federal awards directly from a Federal awarding agency,” the Federal Registry states.
Planned Parenthood makes up a single-digit percentage of recipients
Planned Parenthood Action (PPACT) claims that “300 Planned Parenthood health centers are in the Title X network.” The Office of Population Affairs claims there are more than 4,000 clinics nationwide; Data.gov has the number at about 4,400 centers serving “about 5 million clients each year,” adding that “[s]ervices are provided through state, county, and local health departments; community health centers; Planned Parenthood centers; and hospital-based, school-based, faith-based, other private nonprofits.”
This reveals that the abortion corporation likely makes up between seven to eight percent of all Title X locations.
Three Planned Parenthood affiliates (PP of Southern New England, PP of Northern New England, and Virginia League for PP) were identified as direct grantees in the January 2025 Title X Family Planning Directory, so far this year.
Additional Planned Parenthood centers are listed as “sub-recipients” or “service sites.”
Grantees also include one recipient which commits abortions and three which openly promote or refer for them:
- AccessMatters (which pushes abortion) received $5,615,650 in grants in 2024.
- Family Planning Association of Maine, Inc. which received $1,925,000 in 2024. Live Action News previously documented that FPAM does business as Maine Family Planning and has been part of the Gynuity-sponsored TelAbortion clinical trial (which offered the abortion pill to children as young as 10).
- New Jersey Family Planning League, Inc., which refers for abortions, was granted $8,550,000 in 2024.
- Essential Access Health (EAH), which also promotes abortion, received $13,200,000 in 2024 Title X funds in California and $2,200,000 in Hawaii.
Live Action News was unable to locate any taxpayer dollar amounts committed to these grantees for 2025 on the HHS website.
Temporarily frozen funding
In 2024, nearly $20.6 million in Title X dollars were directly granted to nine Planned Parenthood affiliates.
However, this week, Planned Parenthood was notified by the Trump Administration that approximately $20 million of those Title X funds has been temporarily frozen as of April 1, 2025.
“The notice pointed to ‘possible violations’ of federal civil rights law and President Donald Trump’s executive orders — including prohibitions on promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion and ‘taxpayer subsidization of open borders,’” claimed Politico. “The letter to Planned Parenthood chapters, many of them in GOP-controlled states, cites the clinics’ mission statements and other public documents that stress a ‘commitment to black communities’ as evidence of their noncompliance.”
2024 TitleX funding to nine direct Planned Parenthood grantees
2024 grantees included the following:
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, and Kentucky (PPGNWHAIK) – committed 16,595 abortions in 2022, 30,270 in 2021, and 32,603 abortions in 2020. According to the affiliate’s annual reports, PPGNWHAIK’s transgender clients increased over 76% — from 3,365 patients in 2021 to 5,926 patients in 2022.
Planned Parenthood of Southern New England (PPSNE) – committed 12,411 abortions in 2022, 11,514 abortions in 2019 and 11,030 abortions in 2018, and 1,655 “gender-affirming care” (GAC) services in 2022. The affiliate conveniently left out services numbers in its 2023 report. In 2021, abortions at PPSNE made up 7% of the affiliate’s services, and 6% in 2020.
Live Action News recently documented that a lawsuit filed against PPSNE alleges a PPSNE midwife misdiagnosed a pregnancy that resulted in the death of a 22-week-old baby boy after the pregnant woman was told she had miscarried at six weeks. Another alleges PPSNE failed to notice that a client was 14 weeks pregnant before inserting an IUD. A third lawsuit alleges that a PPSNE abortionist left a woman permanently injured.
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE) – abortions made up 7% of the affiliate’s services in 2022, 2021, and 2020 before rising to whopping 10% in 2023. In 2018, PPNNE committed abortions on 3,554 clients while the affiliate’s 2019 annual report showed that abortions made up 6% of the services provided.
Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota (PPMNDSD) – committed abortions on 10,971 clients, according to the group’s 2025 Gratitude report, which was a slight drop from the 11,542 committed in 2022. Transgender hormone therapy clients at the affiliate rose nearly 68%, from 3,460 in 2022 to 5,796 in the 2025 report. In 2018, the affiliate announced a merger with Planned Parenthood of the Heartland to form the new abortion affiliate: Planned Parenthood North Central States (PPNCS), but is somehow still receiving funds under its outdated name.
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic (PPSA) – formed in 2015 from a merger between Planned Parenthood Health Systems and Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina.
Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio (PPGO) – recorded 3,255 GAC services in the 2022-23 report.
Planned Parenthood Association of Utah (PPAU) – recorded committing 2,676 abortions in 2024, up from the 2,123 in 2023 and 2,317 in 2021.
Others include Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health Services and the Virginia League for Planned Parenthood (VLPP).
In addition, September of 2024, HHS awarded one-time supplemental grant funding to:
- PP of Southern New England: $66,742
- PP of Greater Ohio: $799,100
- PP Greater Texas Family Planning And Preventative Health Service: $1,024,606
A $750K research grant was also issued to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute (a former “special affiliate” of Planned Parenthood) for the period of September 1, 2022–August 31, 2025 for “research.”
Planned Parenthood typically receives $60M annually in Title X funding
Planned Parenthood receives the majority of its taxpayer funding from two federal programs — Title X and Medicaid. While the abortion corporation could see approximately $20 million in Title X funding removed from nine of its affiliates, Planned Parenthood has historically received $60 million a year from the same federal program.
When the first Trump administration implemented a 2019 Title X rule change requiring abortion providers to keep their abortion businesses physically and fiscally separate from other services, Planned Parenthood made a calculated decision to prioritize abortion over the health of low income clients. Planned Parenthood rejected $60 million in Title X taxpayer dollars while continuing to receive hundreds of millions from other state and federal taxpayer programs. States working to expand abortion ramped up to replace that Title X funding and increase the amount of money they funneled to Planned Parenthood.
Despite these cuts, a 2023 Government Accountability (GAO) report revealed that from 2019-2021, “Planned Parenthood affiliates expended approximately $54 million” in Family Planning Services.
In 2021, the Biden Administration reversed the Trump rule, allowing Title X funds to go again to abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood receives over $1.9 million dollars from U.S. taxpayers every day while serving fewer clients and decreasing legitimate health services. Tragically, in 2022-23, the abortion giant also killed an average of 1,076 preborn babies every day from abortion — nearly 45 every hour, or one every 80 seconds.
It is past time to defund every taxpayer dollar Planned Parenthood receives from Title X and other government programs.
