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Massachusetts Nurses Association at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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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 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, FY2020 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $65,300, the rows itemized in this filing. The $107,928 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $42,628 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

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 (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 its 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
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.
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+8%

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
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

  • 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
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
Aft Massachusetts

State labor organization

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2
1199 Seiu United Healthcare Workers East

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

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3
University of Michigan

To represent and advocate for its member physicians.

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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…

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5
Western Massachusetts Area Labor Federation

Labor organization

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Union of Healthcare Workers; 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 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. 9 of the 15 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%23%51%90%funder's 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, 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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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