How much did CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION grant in FY2023?

CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION reported 20 grants totaling $2,490,881 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION based?

CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION is based in CA.

CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION

Foundation Dossiers

· 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.

$2.5M

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$75k

Largest

01What you fund

0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.

Health$527kArts & Culture$200kPublic Benefit$170kHuman Services$111kEmployment$71kCivil Rights$59kMembership Benefit$40kEducation$35kCommunity Improvement$30kOther$280k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

californiansneighborhoodbuildtourismskillsfightracial

2020

tourismworkers

2021

federalorleansradio stationasian americanseducationalhealthenvironment

2022

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2023

consumerlabor unionsparticipationafrican-americansafrican-american cultureculture heritagestates

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

$10k–50k19 grants · $353k
$50k–250k1 grant · $75k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$464M

Total assets

Largest grants

CALIFORNIA NURSES FOUNDATION$75,000
ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND$40,000
CAPITAL & MAIN$40,000
UNITED FARM WORKERS$35,000
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS POLICY INSTITUTE$25,000
MIGUEL CONTRERAS FOUNDATION$25,000
WOMEN IN CALIFORNIA LEADERSHIP$25,000
CARA$23,000
JOBS WITH JUSTICE$20,000
HEALTHCARE-NOW EDUCACATION FUND INC$15,000
CONSUMER FEDERATION OF CALIFORNIA$15,000
AFL-CIO TEXAS$10,000
ARISE CHICAGO$10,000
AFL-CIO CONTRA COSTA COUNTY$10,000
UC REGENTS - UC DAVIS$10,000

02The need

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 (FY18–22, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 12%. 29% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

$953k · 11 repeat orgs$569k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$953k

$369k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

+92%

Still filing today

100%

88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Public BenefitCivil RightsArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEmploymentOther

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
6× · 2018–2023 · $342k · revenue +5% · 46% of their budget
CAPITAL & MAIN
4× · 2020–2023 · $160k · revenue +214%
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LAANE (CAPITAL AND MAIN)
3× · 2018–2020 · $120k · revenue +19%

Funded once

CW
CONSUMER WATCHDOGgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +115%
SF
SAN FRANCISCO LABOR COUNCILgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $55k · revenue +174%
MS
MNA ST VINCENT STRIKE FUND
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue 0%

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.

Californians for Fair Pay and Employer

To support policies and ballot measures to support employment reform.

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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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Afl-Cio Union Lawyers Alliance

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

—

California State Council of Service

Coordinate affiliated local unions to better the working conditions of its members.

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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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Asian Americans Advancing Justice -

The mission of AAAJ-ALC is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist in the United…

Crime & Legal

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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LaborLab

LaborLab is the nations sole watchdog dedicated to safeguarding workers right to organize through unions, collective bargaining, and mutual aid. We empower thousands of workers annually by offering educational resources and holding…

Human Services

Alameda County Prosecutors Association

Alameda county prosecutors association is a labor association that represents the employment interests of deputy district attorneys (including senior deputy district attorneys, also known as assistant district attorneys) employed in the…

Employment

San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council Afl-Cio

The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.

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American Federation of Labor

Together as one, the ohio afl-cio unites hundreds of thousands of working families across ohio

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American Federation of Labor

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

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Federation of Labor & and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Nurses Association. 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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% 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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/39

the rest of the field

12%

22,290/186,939

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.

05the grantee network

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/35

Grantees still filing

28/35

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$527,112Other$385,100Arts & Culture$200,000Public Benefit$170,000Human Services$110,500Employment$70,600Civil Rights$59,000

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

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.

Seiu Local 2015CA24.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seiu Local 2015 · Seiu Local 1021 · United Domestic Workers of America · Communications Workers of America · American Federation of State County · American Federation of State County · American Federation of Labor And · The California Endowment · Liberty Hill Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation

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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HEALTHCARE-NOW EDUCACATION FUND INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 813511358 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HEALTHCARE-NOW EDUCACATION FUND INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 50% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to California Nurses Association?

Find your warmest path to California Nurses Association through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to California Nurses Association?

More from the funding graph

CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to California Nurses Association?

More from the funding graph