This week the NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Foundation will finalize its merger with the Freedom Fund, which provides money to help women pay for abortions.

The program will be called the Women’s Freedom Fund. The program was started in 1984 by the First Universalist Church of Denver to help women who were barred from abortion services because of cost, NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado said in a statement.

The fund has been operated by the Mountain Desert District of the Unitarian Universalist Association since 2010.

The foundation is pledging that all the money raised for the fund will go directly to women to pay the cost of abortion care.

“We believe this is an integral step forward in our mission, which includes expanding access to abortion care,” NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado executive director Karen Middleton said in a statement. “No woman should be denied abortion care because she can’t afford it, but the barriers to care are getting more difficult and more expensive for many. Our hope is to make this a lasting effort in Colorado to better meet the needs of women and families in a challenging political environment for abortion care in the United States.”

The Freedom Fund assists about 275 women a year, it says on its website.

“The Freedom Fund is experiencing an increase in requests from people needing abortion funding assistance,” The Unitarian Universalist Church wrote on the site. “We are also being contacted by people who are later in their pregnancies which require more expensive procedures. Late requests are often an indicator that even with our help they are not able to afford an abortion. According to the National Network of Abortion Funds, these challenges are being experienced by other abortion funds and are a result of the economic crisis.”

NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado is a politically active nonprofit that works on public education, grassroots organizing around abortion rights issues, as well as lobbying policymakers and trying to elect like-minded officeholders.

The organization raised almost $650,000 in contributions in 2015.