How much does California Nurses Association give?

California Nurses Association reported 31 itemized grants totaling $1,327,228, out of $6,927,339 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does California Nurses Association fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Employment (22%), Public Benefit (13%).

Who are California Nurses Association's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: California Nurses Foundation ($549k), Save My Country Action Fund ($250k), Capital & Main ($240k).

Does California Nurses Association fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is California Nurses Association based?

California Nurses Association is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Public charity

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 FY2025(still arriving): 31
Itemized grants FY2025: 20
Organizations funded FY2024: 65%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.3M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $250,000
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 20; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $562M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 65% of the organizations California Nurses Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $262k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Public BenefitArts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthInternationalOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	30	$1.1M	50%
FY2024	20	$460k	65%
FY2023	20	$428k	60%
FY2022	5	$173k	20%
FY2021	9	$189k	56%
FY2020	5	$210k	40%
FY2019	9	$257k	44%
FY2018	15	$266k	73%

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
California Nurses Foundation	$549,258	9	46%
Save My Country Action Fund	$250,000	1	n/a
Capital & Main	$240,000	6	2%
Jobs with Justice San Francisco	$131,600	6	12%
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy	$120,000	3	2%
United Farm Workers of America	$110,000	4	0%
Labor Community Services Program of Los Angeles	$105,000	1	n/a
California Alliance for Retired Americans	$90,500	7	5%
Acorn International Inc	$90,000	1	37%
Fahwa Inc	$75,000	4	28%

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All grantees of California Nurses Association by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
California Nurses Foundation	$549,258	9	46%
Save My Country Action Fund	$250,000	1	n/a
Capital & Main	$240,000	6	2%
Jobs with Justice San Francisco	$131,600	6	12%
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy	$120,000	3	2%
United Farm Workers of America	$110,000	4	0%
Labor Community Services Program of Los Angeles	$105,000	1	n/a
California Alliance for Retired Americans	$90,500	7	5%
Acorn International Inc	$90,000	1	37%
Fahwa Inc	$75,000	4	28%
Consumer Watchdog	$75,000	1	2%
San Francisco Labor Council	$60,337	2	4%
California Tax Reform Association	$60,000	2	39%
Los Angeles County Federation of Labor Afl-Cio	$50,000	1	n/a
Massachusetts Nurses Association	$50,000	1	0%
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations	$50,000	1	0%
Creative Visions Foundation	$50,000	1	n/a
Center for Popular Democracy Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists	$46,500	2	2%
Texas Afl-Cio	$43,000	4	0%
American Federation of Labor & Alameda Labor Council	$40,100	3	1%
Healthcare-Now Education Fund Inc	$40,000	2	50%
The Actors' Fund of America	$40,000	1	0%
The California Legislative Black Caucus Policy Institute	$35,000	2	1%
Step Up for Action	$35,000	2	4%
Contra Costa Labor Council Afl-Cio	$31,500	2	2%
The Martin Luther King Jrfreedom Ctr	$30,000	2	6%
Ue Research and Education Fund	$30,000	2	16%
Sacramento Central Labor Council	$25,500	1	n/a
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action	$25,000	1	2%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Florida Afl-Cio	$25,000	2	1%
Middle East Children's Alliance	$25,000	1	0%
Unite Here Local 2	$25,000	1	n/a
Chattanoogans in Action for Love Equality and Benevolence	$25,000	2	2%
American Federation of Labor Congress of Industrial Organizations Georgia S	$25,000	1	1%
Women in California Leadership Inc	$25,000	1	3%
Healthcare-Now Inc	$25,000	1	22%
American Fed of Labor & Congress	$25,000	1	n/a
Speaker 2023 Inaugural Fund	$25,000	1	n/a
The Miguel Contreras Foundation	$25,000	1	1%
International Union - Uaw	$25,000	1	0%
Consumer Federation of California	$20,000	2	2%
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance AFL -Cio	$20,000	1	8%
Maine AFL-CIO	$20,000	1	1%
Labor United for Universal Healthcare	$20,000	2	n/a
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council AFL-CIO	$20,000	1	n/a
National Day Laborer Organizing Network	$14,000	1	0%
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizatio	$10,000	1	n/a
Equal Justice Initiative	$10,000	1	0%
Maine State Nurses Association	$10,000	1	n/a
American Federation of Labor & North Bay Labor Council	$10,000	1	4%
University of California Davis	$10,000	1	n/a
Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Annunciation House Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Public Citizen Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego	$10,000	1	n/a
Festival Center Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Memphis for All	$10,000	1	8%
The Roosevelt Institute	$10,000	1	0%
American Federation of Labor Memphis Afl-Cio Labor Council	$10,000	1	3%
Arise Chicago	$10,000	1	0%
Veggielution	$7,000	1	0%
Long Beach Forward	$5,150	1	n/a
Friends of Wwoz Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc	$5,000	1	0%
West Virginia Afl-Cio Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Florida Media Labs Inc	$5,000	1	n/a

California Nurses Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 51.

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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.

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

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.

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About California Nurses Association

How much does California Nurses Association give?: California Nurses Association reported 31 itemized grants totaling $1,327,228, out of $6,927,339 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does California Nurses Association fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Employment (22%), Public Benefit (13%).
Who are California Nurses Association's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: California Nurses Foundation ($549k), Save My Country Action Fund ($250k), Capital & Main ($240k).
Does California Nurses Association fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as California Nurses Association?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc, American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, United Domestic Workers of America.
Where is California Nurses Association based?: California Nurses Association is based in CA.