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American Nurses Foundation Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

American Nurses Foundation Inc

Established as the charitable and philanthropic arm of the american nurses association (ana).

$5.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$689k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$17MEducation$3.3MHuman Services$2.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$521kReligion$144kPhilanthropy$23kFood & Nutrition$22kArts & Culture$9k
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $108k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $628k
  • $250k+9 grants · $4.8M
$340,329
Median grant
17
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION$688,824
EMORY UNIVERSITY$650,719
CHAMBERLAIN UNIVERSITY LLC$599,232
CHRISTIAN CARE HEALTH SERVICES$562,041
STATE OF LOUISIANA - SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY$541,571
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$484,296
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$470,734
NAVI NURSES$448,917
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$340,329
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF NURSING$175,617
BAYCARE HEALTH SYSTEM$131,183
PEOPLE FOUNDATION INC$112,500
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES$90,834
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$63,930
INDIANA UNIVERSITY HEALTH$53,605
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC: $14k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 26 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
51

Total granted

$20M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+41%

Still filing today

62%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $654k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationPhilanthropyReligionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • EU
    Emory University
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +15%
  • CC
    CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +29%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $474k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • RU
    REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • EN
    EMERGENCY NURSES ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $84k · revenue +41%
  • VI
    VIRGIN ISLANDS STATE NURSES ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · $59k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Academy of Neurology

The AAN strives to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
2
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

American college of occupational and environmental medicine (acoem) provides leadership to promote optimal health and safety of workers, workplaces and environments by: educating health professionals and the public; stimulating research;…

Arts & Culture
3
National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties

The national organization of nurse practitioner faculties' mission is to optimize quality and cultivate leadership in np education.

Education
4
American Association of Nurse Practitioners

To empower all nurse practitioners to advance quality health care through practice, education, advocacy, research and leadership.

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5
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
6
American Nurses Credentialing Center

To promote excellence in nursing and health care globally through credentialing programs.

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7
American College of Health Care Administrators

The american college of health care administrators (achca) is the catalyst for excellence in post-acute and aging services leadership.

Health
8
Association of Academic Health Centers Inc

The association of academic health centers (aahc) seeks to improve the nation's health care system by mobilizing and enhancing the strengths and resources of the academic health center enterprise in health professions, education, patient…

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9
Alaska Nurses Association

To improve health standards,foster high standards for nurses and to promote the profession of nursing

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10
American Society for Nutrition Inc

The american society for nutrition, inc. (asn) was established to advance health around the world through evidence based nutrition. this is accomplished through innovative programs and services designed to advance knowledge, create and…

Food & Nutrition
11
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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12
American Academy of Physician Associates Inc

To ensure the professional growth, personal excellence, and recognition of physician associates, and to support efforts to enable them to improve the quality, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness of patient-centered health care.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Association of Colleges of Nursing; the most unlike its peers is The Peoples Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 81 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/54
Grantees still filing
43/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION INC: $6,325,088 · OtherAMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION INCNURSES HOUSE INC: $2,900,000 · OtherNURSES HOUSE INCCHAMBERLAIN UNIVERSITY LLC: $1,232,975 · OtherCHAMBERLAIN UNIVERSITY LLCUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $1,108,910 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $1,090,478 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITYNAVI NURSES: $963,950 · OtherNAVI NURSESTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $756,096 · Other+33 more: $1,357,999 · Other+33 moreEmory University: $1,494,003 · EducationEmory UniversityTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,285,409 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UN…AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF NURSING: $1,261,598 · EducationAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COL…SOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM: $541,571 · EducationSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEMTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $474,218 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE+12 more: $577,666 · Education+12 moreCHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES INC: $1,224,777 · HealthBayCare Health System Inc: $200,521 · HealthAmerican Academy of Nursing: $154,000 · HealthIndiana University Health Inc: $77,635 · Health+14 more: $205,300 · HealthThe Peoples Foundation Inc: $112,500 · ReligionREFUGEEONE: $31,555 · ReligionAORN FOUNDATION: $46,550 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyRebuilding Together Houston: $27,059 · Housing & ShelterNORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC: $14,000 · Human Services
Other$15,735,496Education$5,634,465Health$1,862,233Religion$144,055Philanthropy$56,550Housing & Shelter$27,059Human Services$14,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION INC: $6,325,088 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetNURSES HOUSE INC: $2,900,000 over 2y, 78% of budgetEmory University: $1,494,003 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,285,409 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF NURSING: $1,261,598 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetCHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES INC: $1,224,777 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM: $541,571 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $474,218 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Organization for Nursing Leadership: $275,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetBayCare Health System Inc: $200,521 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Academy of Nursing: $154,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $127,945 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $101,019 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNURSES ON BOARDS COALITION: $95,745 over 3y, 14% of budgetEMERGENCY NURSES ASSOCIATION: $84,490 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE NURSES FOUNDATION: $79,250 over 3y, 13% of budgetIndiana University Health Inc: $77,635 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $55,547 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS (ASHP): $47,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAORN FOUNDATION: $46,550 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetDAISY FOUNDATION: $42,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $39,929 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation: $36,873 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $31,555 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRebuilding Together Houston: $27,059 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN NURSES CREDENTIALING CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC NURSES ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMETRO CARING: $22,397 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHEPHERD'S HOPE INC: $17,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CRITICAL CARE NURSES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC: $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarquette University: $12,870 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $12,844 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,499 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HISPANIC NURSES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL HEA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN NURS: $10,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetASSOCIATION OF WOMEN'S HEALTH OBSTETRIC & NEONATAL NURSES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PEDIATRIC NURSE PRACTITIONERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRANSCULTURAL NURSING SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK NURSES ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTH IMPROVEMENT PARTNERSHIP OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR PROFESSIONAL IN INFECTION CONTROL & EPIDEMOLOGY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILIPPINE NURSES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA FOUNDATIO: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP: $8,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Cystic Fibrosis Found…American Heart Associ…Vanderbilt University…The Trustees of Colum…Johns Hopkins Univers…The Children's Hospit…Yale UniversityPublic Health Institu…The Robert Wood Johns…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…
Cystic Fibrosis FoundationMD17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · American Heart Association Inc · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Johns Hopkins University · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Yale University · Public Health Institute · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Nurses Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Nurses Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Portland Va Research Foundation: 34% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
  • American Nurses Association Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Christiana Care Health Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (Ashp): 1% of income from government
  • BayCare Health System Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 81 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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