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California Nurses Association

The organizations primary mission is to provide effective collective bargaining representation to CNA members in order to promote the economic and professional interests of direct care nurses and to advocate for direct care nurses and their patients on all public policy matters related to safe care and nursing practice.

$6.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$769kEmployment$740kPublic Benefit$435kHuman Services$381kCivil Rights$259kEnvironment$250kMembership Benefit$249kScience & Tech$90kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 31 grants below total $1,327,228 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,927,339 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,600,111 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 $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $397k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $662k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$562M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Save My County Action Fund$250,000
Committee to Protect Public Safety$200,000
California Nurses Foundation$106,891
Labor Comm Services$105,000
Acorn International$90,000
United Farm Workers of America$60,000
Creative Visions$50,000
AFL-CIOLos Angeles County$50,000
Capital & Main$40,000
California Tax Reform Association$30,000
AFL-CIOSacramento Central Labor Council$25,500
AFL-CIOAlameda Labor Council$25,000
Middle East Children's Alliance$25,000
AFL-CIOCentral Labor of Nashville and Middle TN$25,000
Healthcare NOW$25,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $443k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Martin Luther King Jr Freedom Center: $20k → 10%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA: $5k → 9%Martin Luther King Jr Freedom Center: $10k → 10%Festival Center Inc: $10k → 14%Committee to Protect Public Safety: $200k → 12%CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS (CARA): $18k → 10%California Alliance for Retired Americans (CARA): $10k → 10%Labor Comm Services: $105k → 14%CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS (CARA): $10k → 10%CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS (CARA): $10k → 10%CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS (CARA): $10k → 10%CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS (CARA): $10k → 10%ACCE ACTION: $25k → 14%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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MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
WV
MD
TN
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 22 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
31

Total granted

$1.9M
$629k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+11%

Still filing today

95%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $728k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCivil RightsArts & CulturePublic BenefitHealthInternationalOther

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

  • CN
    California Nurses Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $549k · revenue +280% · 46% of their budget
  • CAPITAL & MAIN
    6× · 2020–2025 · $240k · revenue +73%
  • JW
    Jobs with Justice San Francisco
    6× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +241%

Funded once

  • CW
    CONSUMER WATCHDOGgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +82%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +41%

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
California Labor Federation Afl-Cio

The primary purposes of the organization are the study of economic and social conditions; the pursuit of policies aimed at effecting a more equal distribution of wealth; and the promotion of full employment.

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2
American Federation of Labor

To encourage all workers to share equally in the full benefits of union organization and to promulgate the principles ennunciated by the AFL-CIO to encourage workers to promote the principle of free collective bargainin

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3
Washington State Labor Council Afl-Cio

To protect and strengthen the rights and conditions of working people and their families.

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4
American Federation of Labor&Congress of Industrial Orgs Napa&Solano

Labor organization

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5
American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Orgs

To organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.

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6
American Federation of Labor Ohio Afl-Cio

To advance middle class and working class values by promoting social and economic justice. we join together over 263,000 union members to make our voice heard in the policy and political arenas. the ohio afl-cio represents 1,787 local…

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7
California State Council of Service Employees

The council coordinated the efforts of affiliated local unions and assisted their organizations work, bettering the working conditions of their members.

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8
Afl-Cio Union Lawyers Alliance

Afl-cio union lawyers alliance was established to better the conditions of working men and women and their families by enhancing the quality of legal representation that is available to the afl-cio and the national and international unions…

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9
The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition

to organize workers in the laborers international union of north America, afl-cio pacific southwest region through a coordinated program to maintain and improve employment opportunities for affiliated local union members and to recruit new…

Employment
10
Cincinnati Afl-Cio Labor Council

The mission of the afl-cio is to improve the lives of working families, to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation.

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11
Laborers International Union of 341 Hcl

Union hall devoted to the betterment of members compensation and working conditions, to secure recognition of workers rights to engage in collective bargaining, and to promote the development and maintenance of on-the-job safety practices…

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12
Laborers' International Union of North America Laborers' Local #43

Promote and protect the interests of the members of the local

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Federation of Labor & Alameda Labor Council and the most unlike its peers is The Martin Luther King Jrfreedom Ctr. 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 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr11%13%35–55yr13%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%8%<5yr15%14%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%15%20–35yr11%10%35–55yr13%41%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/69
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,909

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

60 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. 60 of the 69 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
32/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Save My Country Action Fund — $250,000 · OtherSave My Country Action FundUNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICA — $110,000 · OtherUNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICASan Francisco Labor Council — $60,337 · OtherLOS ANGELES COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO — $50,000 · OtherAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS — $50,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS NURSES ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · OtherCOALITION OF BLACK TRADE UNIONISTS — $46,500 · OtherCALIFORNIA TAX REFORM ASSOCIATION — $60,000 · Other+33 more — $677,250 · Other+33 moreCalifornia Nurses Foundation — $549,258 · HealthCalifornia Nurses Foundat…LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $120,000 · HealthLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR …FAHWA INC — $75,000 · HealthFAHWA INC+1 more — $25,000 · HealthAlliance for Safety and Justice Action Fund dba Action for Safety and Justice — $200,000 · Human ServicesAlliance for Sa…LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES PROGRAM OF LOS ANGELES — $105,000 · Human ServicesLABOR COMMUNITY…CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS — $90,500 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA ALLI…THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JRFREEDOM CTR — $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE MARTIN LUTH…Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action — $25,000 · Human ServicesAlliance of Cal…+2 more — $15,000 · Human ServicesCAPITAL & MAIN — $240,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL & …CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE V…THE MIGUEL CONTRERAS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MIGUEL…+2 more — $15,000 · Arts & CultureCONSUMER WATCHDOG — $75,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $50,000 · Public BenefitHEALTHCARE-NOW EDUCATION FUND INC — $40,000 · Public BenefitConsumer Federation of California — $20,000 · Public BenefitPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Public BenefitACORN INTERNATIONAL INC — $90,000 · Civil RightsTHE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS POLICY INSTITUTE — $35,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK — $14,000 · Civil RightsMemphis for All — $10,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $10,000 · Civil RightsJobs with Justice San Francisco — $131,600 · EmploymentARISE CHICAGO — $10,000 · Employment
Other$1,354,087Health$769,258Human Services$465,500Arts & Culture$330,000Public Benefit$195,000Civil Rights$159,000Employment$141,600

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCalifornia Nurses Foundation — $549,258 over 9y, 46% of budgetCAPITAL & MAIN — $240,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetAlliance for Safety and Justice Action Fund dba Action for Safety and Justice — $200,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetJobs with Justice San Francisco — $131,600 over 6y, 12% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $120,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICA — $110,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS — $90,500 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetACORN INTERNATIONAL INC — $90,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetCONSUMER WATCHDOG — $75,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFAHWA INC — $75,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetSan Francisco Labor Council — $60,337 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA TAX REFORM ASSOCIATION — $60,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS NURSES ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOALITION OF BLACK TRADE UNIONISTS — $46,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTEXAS AFL-CIO — $43,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & ALAMEDA LABOR COUNCIL — $40,100 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHCARE-NOW EDUCATION FUND INC — $40,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS POLICY INSTITUTE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetStep Up for Action — $35,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetCONTRA COSTA LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO — $31,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE MARTIN LUTHER KING JRFREEDOM CTR — $30,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetUE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND — $30,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetAmerican Federation of Labor Congress of Industrial Organizations Georgia S — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL UNION - UAW — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA AFL-CIO — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAlliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHEALTHCARE-NOW INC — $25,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetWomen in California Leadership Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIGUEL CONTRERAS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHATTANOOGANS IN ACTION FOR LOVE EQUALITY AND BENEVOLENCE — $25,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMaine AFL-CIO — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetConsumer Federation of California — $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LABOR ALLIANCE AFL -CIO — $20,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK — $14,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMemphis for All — $10,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetARISE CHICAGO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR MEMPHIS AFL-CIO LABOR COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Federation of Labor & North Bay Labor Council — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFestival Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

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.

Communications Worker…American Federation o…United Domestic Worke…Seiu Local 2015American Federation o…American Federation o…Seiu Local 1021Amalgamated Charitabl…The San Francisco Fou…National Nurses UnitedInternational Brother…The California Endowm…
Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio ClcDC21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · United Domestic Workers of America · Seiu Local 2015 · American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations · American Federation of State County AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES LOCAL 3299 · Seiu Local 1021 · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · National Nurses United · International Brotherhood of Teamsters · The California Endowment

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 California Nurses Association 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Massachusetts Nurses Association — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 69 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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