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'Rage Giving' Prompted by the End of Roe Has Dropped Off, Abortion Access Groups Say
Foundation: Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, Packard Foundation, Hewlett Foundation
A year after the Supreme Court's landmark decision to overturn Roe v.
Wade, abortion rights groups are finding themselves short of cash.
"The 'rage giving' did not last," the executive director of the Afiya Center for Women's Health tells the Washington Post.
She says groups in states where abortion is banned or restricted have seen a drop in donations and some major funders have either ended their emergency grants or shifted funding elsewhere.
"I think (that) really speaks to kind of a fundamental issue with philanthropy and responding to an emergent crisis," says the director of grantmaking for the Groundswell Fund, which funds groups working for reproductive justice.
A Giving USA report released last week found that donations to human services and public society benefit organizations, including abortion access nonprofits, declined in 2022, while donations to health organizations increased 5%, which is actually a decline when adjusted for inflation.
Many donors fund anonymously, sometimes requiring not to publicly disclose the source.
The largest historic funder, the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, eventually makes gifts public through tax filings, but the organization does not respond to questions about whether or how its funding strategy changed in response to the Dobbs decision.
Another large funder, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, said it is shifting or ending grants to
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