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Massachusetts Nurses Association

The mission of the mna, the association for registered nurses and health care professionals, is to preserve the identity, integrity, and continuity of professional nursing and health care in the commonwealth of massachusetts.

$108k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
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 FY20202025.

Health$135kEmployment$90kRecreation & Sports$33kCivil Rights$20kPublic Benefit$10kPhilanthropy$5k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $65,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $107,928 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $42,628 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS NURSES FOUNDATION$45,200
MASS-CARE$15,000
JOBS WITH JUSTICE$5,100
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 (FY20–20, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $15k → 9%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.

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$176k · 4 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$176k
$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-16%
+40%

Still filing today

100%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24’25
Public BenefitHuman ServicesHealthEmploymentCivil RightsOther

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

  • MN
    MASSACHUSETTS NURSES FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $79k · revenue -35% · 79% of their budget
  • MC
    MASSACHUSETTS CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CAR
    3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue -16%
  • HE
    HEALTHCARE-NOW EDUCATION FUND INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue -97% · 65% of their budget

Funded once

  • NU
    NATIONAL UNION OF HEALTHCARE WORKERS
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +8%
  • UH
    UNITE HERE LOCAL 26graduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +99%
  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON LABOR COUNCIL
    one grant, 2021 · $17k

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
Aft Massachusetts

State labor organization

2
1199 Seiu United Healthcare Workers East

1199seiu - to organize and unite employees in the health care industry.

3
University of Michigan

To represent and advocate for its member physicians.

4
Uvmmc Support Staff United Local 5223 Aft-Vt Afl-Cio

To secure full trade union rights, including the right to exclusive recognition and bargaining. to advance the economic, social and political well-being of the membership. to promote the improvement of employment standards and patient care…

5
Western Massachusetts Area Labor Federation

Labor organization

6
District 1199J Nuhhce Afscme Afl Cio

Labor union to support collective bargaining for its members, conducting membership meetings, education, organizing events to further the common interests of the membership.

7
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…

8
New England Joint Board Unite Here

To unite all workers for the purpose of collective bargaining throughout the trades and industries within its jurisdiction.

9
Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union

MCOFU is the state recognized collective bargaining representative for all employees of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Corrections Unit 4.

Recreation & Sports
10
American Federation of State County 1199 Ct Loc Conn Chca Loc 1199 Pct

A collective bargaining agent for member health care employees in the state of connecticut. any person employed as a registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, professional, technical, service and maintenance, office clerical and others…

11
1199C National Union of Hospital and Health Care

Labor union to support collective bargaining for its members, conducting membership meetings, education, organizing events to further the common interests of the membership.

12
Service Employees International Union 1199 New England Health Care Employee

The objectives of the district are:(a) to organize and unite all workers within its jurisdiction without regard to race, color, gender, age, national origin, political belief, political affiliation, religious preference, personal…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Union of Healthcare Workers and the most unlike its peers is The Labor Guild of the Archdiocese of Boston 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 15 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS NURSES FOUNDATION INC — $78,650 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS NURSES FOUNDATION INCTHE LABOR GUILD OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC — $27,750 · OtherTHE LABOR GUILD OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INCUNITE HERE LOCAL 26 — $20,000 · OtherUNITE HERE LOCAL 26GREATER BOSTON LABOR COUNCIL — $16,750 · OtherGREATER BOSTON LABOR COUNCILCOALITION TO PROTECT WORKERS RIGHTS — $10,000 · OtherCOALITION TO PROTECT WORKERS RIGHTS+5 more — $25,000 · Other+5 moreMASSACHUSETTS CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CAR — $40,000 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS C…HEALTHCARE-NOW EDUCATION FUND INC — $30,000 · Public BenefitHEALTHCARE-…NATIONAL UNION OF HEALTHCARE WORKERS — $25,000 · EmploymentNATIONAL …MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC — $5,100 · Civil Rights
Other$178,150Health$40,000Public Benefit$30,000Employment$25,000Human Services$15,000Civil Rights$5,100

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMASSACHUSETTS NURSES FOUNDATION INC — $78,650 over 3y, 79% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CAR — $40,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetHEALTHCARE-NOW EDUCATION FUND INC — $30,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetTHE LABOR GUILD OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC — $27,750 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetNATIONAL UNION OF HEALTHCARE WORKERS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL 26 — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS — $5,000 over 1y, 9.8% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Massachusetts 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
202122232425
no gov · 60%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 15 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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