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American Association of Colleges of Nursing

As the collective voice for academic nursing, aacn serves as the catalyst for excellence and innovation in nursing education, research, and practice.

$704k
Granted FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
29
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF NURSING’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 57 grants below total $584,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $703,602 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $119,602 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $162k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $422k
$12,000
Median grant
29
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNC CHARLOTTE SCHOOL OF NURSING$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF NURSING$25,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$18,000
WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY$15,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON$15,000
TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI$15,000
SAMUEL MERRITT UNIVERSITY$15,000
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY$15,000
RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE$15,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$15,000
WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY$15,000
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING$15,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$12,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$12,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $20k → 7%CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 12%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $30k → 22%SAMUEL MERRITT UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%PACE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 9%RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $50k → 11%TEACHERS COLLEGE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $20k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $70k → 8%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $70k → 19%OAKLAND UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $35k → 14%THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $70k → 17%FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING: $50k → 9%TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $70k → 19%UNC CHARLOTTE SCHOOL OF NURSING: $25k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $35k → 13%FAYETTEVILLE ST UNIVERSITY: $70k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA GREENSBORO: $25k → 16%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 20%WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 9%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 15%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $60k → 17%MCKENDREE UNIVERSITY: $70k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI: $50k → 22%NORTHWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 29%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $50k → 19%FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY: $35k → 15%CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY: $35k → 12%SAMUEL MERRITT UNIVERSITY: $35k → 10%LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY: $70k → 14%UC REGENTS - UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES: $50k → 14%RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $35k → 11%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $30k → 17%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $35k → 10%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $70k → 17%OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $29k → 12%FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING: $35k → 9%WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY: $35k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF NURSING: $25k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF NURSING: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI: $35k → 22%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $35k → 19%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $25k → 22%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY: $50k → 12%WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY: $35k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 50 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

50 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
61

Total granted

$2.5M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+40%

Still filing today

50%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SM
    Samuel Merritt University
    4× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +49%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $112k · revenue +4%
  • Fairfield University
    4× · 2019–2025 · $109k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • FS
    FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $70k
  • CO
    CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
    one grant, 2022 · $70k
  • TT
    Tennessee Technological University
    one grant, 2022 · $70k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
5
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
6
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
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University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
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University of Notre Dame du Lac

See Schedule O. See explanation for Form 990, Part I, Line 1 - Organization's Mission above.

Education
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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 65 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%65%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%70%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/132
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,433

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 132 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
51/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIV OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON — $120,000 · OtherUNIV OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTONWright State University — $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI — $100,000 · OtherTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · OtherBOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA — $95,000 · OtherFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY — $82,000 · OtherFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY — $70,000 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI — $70,000 · OtherTennessee Technological University — $70,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON — $70,000 · OtherFAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY — $70,000 · Other+62 more — $1,151,192 · Other+62 moreSamuel Merritt University — $120,000 · EducationSamuel Merritt UniversityJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $112,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYFairfield University — $109,000 · EducationFairfield UniversityTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $106,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIACreighton University — $100,000 · EducationRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE — $100,000 · EducationWALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationEmory University — $76,000 · EducationMcKendree University — $70,000 · EducationLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY — $70,000 · Education+48 more — $1,003,963 · Education+48 moreUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $25,000 · Health
Other$2,098,192Education$1,966,963Health$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSamuel Merritt University — $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $112,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University — $109,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $106,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCreighton University — $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE — $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University — $76,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMcKendree University — $70,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY — $70,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY — $52,666 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University — $47,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $43,873 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $37,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC — $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $31,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University — $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $25,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY — $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOLLOY UNIVERSITY — $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of West Georgia Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWIDENER UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUEFIELD STATE COLLEGE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Samuel Merritt University ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Fairfield University ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Creighton University ↗
  • Who funds RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds McKendree University ↗
  • Who funds LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds PACE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Collegiate A…Folds of Honor Founda…American Chemical Soc…Tulsa Community Found…Kpmg US Foundation IncAmerican Heart Associ…Johns Hopkins Univers…National Collegiate I…The Trustees of Colum…Columbus FoundationNational Writing Proj…National Geographic S…
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN41.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · American Chemical Society · Tulsa Community Foundation · Kpmg US Foundation Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Johns Hopkins University · National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance Inc · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Columbus Foundation · National Writing Project Corporation · National Geographic Society

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization American Association of Colleges of Nursing funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Johns Hopkins University — 11% of income from government
  • Yale University — 9% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 2% of income from government
  • University of Portland — 2% of income from government
  • Regis College — 1% of income from government
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University — 1% of income from government
  • The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 132 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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