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In 2011, Planned Parenthood spent $34.8 million to purchase corporate office
space two blocks from Madison Square Garden.
According to their tax returns, Planned Parenthood spent $622,706 on blowout
parties in 2012 and 2013, including $125,655 on entertainment, alone.
Planned
Parenthood’s annual gala dinner features Hollywood celebrities and musicians.
Affiliates routinely host lavish parties. The funding used for one affiliate’s
“Gathering of Goddesses and Gods”
event or another’s “Chocolate Champagne” and
“Murder Mystery” fundraisers
could have been used on health services.
In 2015, Brookfield Property Partners paid Planned Parenthood $69.6 million for a
72,000 sq-ft condo.
Taxpayer dollars subsidize political affiliates
Over the past five years, Planned Parenthood has given the Planned Parenthood
Action Fund $21,567,629 in grants.
It has also given other 501(c)(4)s a total of
$1,099,932.
In the five years of tax returns provided to the Committee, Planned Parenthood
Federation of America transferred funding from its 501(c)(3) organization, which is
restricted in the amount of lobbying it may conduct, to its 501(c)(4) organization,
which may conduct lobbying as its primary activity.
PPFA 2012-2011 Financial Statement Audit, OGR 154; Terence Cullen, “Brookfield Buys Office Condo Next to
Manhattan West Project for $69.6M” COMMERCIAL OBSERVER (2015)
http://commercialobserver.com/2015/07/brookfield-buys-office-condo-next-to-manhattan-west-project-for-69-6m/
(last accessed Sept. 27, 2015).
2013: $332,663 in expenses including $66,800 on entertainment; 2012: $290,043 in expenses including $58,855
on entertainment. Planned Parenthood Tax Returns, OGR 494, 572.
See, e.g. performances by Salt-N-Pepa, http://plannedparenthoodgala.com/; keynote by President Obama and
appearance by Lena Dunham http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/president-
obama-keynote-planned-parenthoods-annual-gala; pictures from 2015 Gala
http://www.gettyimages.com/search/events/543535949?sort=best&excludenudity=true&phrase=&family=editorial.
2011 Tax Return of Planned Parenthood of Indiana, OGR 5345.
2010 Tax Return of Planned Parenthood of Southeast Ohio, OGR 2676.
Terence Cullen, “Brookfield Buys Office Condo Next to Manhattan West Project for $69.6M” COMMERCIAL
OBSERVER (2015) http://commercialobserver.com/2015/07/brookfield-buys-office-condo-next-to-manhattan-west-
project-for-69-6m/ (last accessed Sept. 27, 2015).
See, e.g., 2009-2013 Tax Returns of Planned Parenthood Federation of America at OGR 296, 366-367, 445-446,
528-529, 600 – 604.
Id. at $140,020 in 2013, OGR 577, 585; $334,819 in 2012, OGR 504, 509; $621,530 in 2011, OGR 419, 424, 427,
429; $8,300 in 2010 OGR 353; $12,082 in 2009, OGR 281.
2009-2013 Tax Returns of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.