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National Nurses United
National Nurses United (NNU) is a 501(c)(5) organization with the primary mission of providing effective collective bargaining representation to NNU affiliates 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…
- $601k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $526k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $56M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations National Nurses United funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $526k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $282k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $325k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $443k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $502k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $238k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $620k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $670k | 53% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rutgers University Foundation | $791,638 | 5 | 0% |
| Rutgers the State University | $673,080 | 4 | n/a |
| American University | $522,333 | 3 | 0% |
| Development Now for Chicago | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Consumer Watchdog Campaign | $175,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Healthcare-Now Inc | $121,000 | 6 | 19% |
| Progressive Democrats of America | $120,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Pension Rights Center | $110,300 | 8 | 3% |
| New Georgia Project Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Takeaction Minnesota | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 56 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
National Nurses United supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Int Union United Auto National Community Action Program · International Brotherhood of Teamsters · International Union of Painters and Allied Trades · United Steel Paper and Forestry Rubber Manufacturing Energy Allied · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Unite Here · United Food and Commercial Workers International Union · National Education Association of the United States · National Association of Letter Carriers
How this is measured
About National Nurses United
- How much does National Nurses United give?
- National Nurses United reported 9 itemized grants totaling $525,524, out of $600,731 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does National Nurses United fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Public Benefit (14%), Civil Rights (10%).
- Who are National Nurses United's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rutgers University Foundation ($792k), Rutgers the State University ($673k), American University ($522k).
- Does National Nurses United fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as National Nurses United?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc, American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees.
- Where is National Nurses United based?
- National Nurses United is based in CA.
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