About Us
A Fund, Inc. is a 501c3 organization directed and staffed entirely by volunteers who raise money to help Kentucky women and other individuals who need access to abortion and contraception.
Mission
A Fund, Inc.’s mission is to ensure that everyone, regardless of their economic circumstances, has access to abortion and contraception.
What We Do
Since 1993, A Fund has provided financial support to thousands of Kentucky patients seeking abortion and contraception. In 2023, A Fund expanded this support to include people in neighboring states.
Now that there is an abortion ban in Kentucky, local patients are traveling out of state for care. A Fund partners with clinics in nearby states to ensure that funding is readily available for patients in need. Travel increases out-of-pocket costs, making abortion even less accessible. To address this, A Fund works closely with partner organizations to cover travel expenses in addition to abortion costs.
Here in Kentucky, A Fund focuses on how it can increase access to contraception. A Fund provides long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) to local clinics and also works with local partners to provide free emergency contraception (Plan B). This year, A Fund is partnering with All Access Eastern Kentucky to pilot a project to provide Opill, the over-the-counter birth control pill, to patients in eastern Kentucky.
A Fund appreciates its generous donors, who are critical to increasing access to vital reproductive healthcare.
Our History
Robert Horner founded A Fund in 1993 with like-minded collaborators to address the need in Kentucky for financial assistance to access abortion. After raising money, A Fund developed a system of direct payments to abortion providers in Kentucky and surrounding states.
In 2010, with the increased need arising in the Great Recession, A Fund was overwhelmed by funding requests. To address this need more efficiently, in 2011, A Fund began sending block grants of money directly to cooperating clinics frequented by those in need.
The block grant structure allows clinic staff the discretion to disburse funds directly from the block grant if a client is unable to pay for an abortion. This is critical to increasing abortion access because health insurance does not cover abortion, so clients must have cash or a credit card to access abortion services.
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Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, A Fund has partnered with clinics in other states to facilitate access to abortion care and has been working with community partners to increase access to Plan C pills.