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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 FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Education$2.0MPublic Benefit$610kCivil Rights$406kCommunity Improvement$310kEmployment$275kHealth$234kHuman Services$110kMembership Benefit$71kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $525,524 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $600,731 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $75,207 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 · $6k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $172k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Development Now for Chicago$250,000
Rutgers University$172,024
Middle East Children's Alliance$25,000
Labor Community Services of Los Angeles$25,000
AFL-CIO Technology Institute$15,000
DC Jobs with Justice$12,500
Union Veterans Council$10,000
Pension Rights Center$10,000
AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer$6,000
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 (FY25–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Labor Community Services of Los Angeles: $25k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
NM
DC
LA
GA
TX

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 14 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +4% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
38

Total granted

$2.9M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
0%

Still filing today

79%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $315k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsInternationalEducationCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitHealthOther

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

  • AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $522k · revenue +26%
  • HI
    HEALTHCARE-NOW INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $121k · revenue +7%
  • PR
    Pension Rights Center
    8× · 2018–2025 · $110k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -88%
  • TM
    TAKEACTION MINNESOTA
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -48%
  • BC
    BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +79%

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
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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2
Afl-Cio Union Lawyers Alliance

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

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3
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 825ABCDRRH

The work of the union, as the representative of its members, is to provide for the continuous employment of labor, to bring about stable conditions in the industry, and to establish necessary procedures for resolutions of disputes between…

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4
Laborers International Union of North America - Local 1076

The local is a nonprofit organization established to represent its members in wage and fringe benefits matters in the construction industry. the local's primary areas of jurisdiction are oakland and livingston counties.

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5
Laborers' International Union of North America

To improve working conditions and living standards of members through collective bargaining, education, training, and employee benefits.

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6
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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7
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union

To organize all workers for the economic, moral, and social advancement of their condition and status.

Employment
8
Laborers' International Union of North America Laborers' Local #43

Promote and protect the interests of the members of the local

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9
International Union of Operating Engineers' Local 324

To anticipate for, and capitalize on the ever-changing economic, social, political and legal challenges facing our union; to provide an unmatched level of services to members through a dedicated, loyal team of professionals.

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10
Laborers International Union of Na

Improvements to conditions of workers

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11
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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12
Laborers International Union of North America 1322 Hcl

Membership organization representing approximately 570 union members for the purpose of collective bargaining.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America and the most unlike its peers is American University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Lgbtq+ Community SupportMilitary Veterans SupportUnited Way AffiliatesPolicy Research and AdvocacyJewish Community Organizati…Community College Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%7%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%21%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/56
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,509

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.

04the grantee network

50 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 56 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
24/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY — $673,080 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITYCONSUMER WATCHDOG CAMPAIGN — $175,000 · OtherCONSUMER WATCHDOG CAMPAIGNPROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS OF AMERICA — $120,000 · OtherPROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS OF AMERICAAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS — $96,000 · OtherAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS …UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA — $60,000 · Other+24 more — $450,925 · Other+24 moreRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $791,638 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $522,333 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY+2 more — $23,000 · EducationPension Rights Center — $110,300 · Civil RightsPension Righ…NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA …BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY…PRIDE AT WORK AFL-CIO — $60,000 · Civil RightsPRIDE AT WOR…The Sanders Institute — $50,000 · Civil RightsThe Sanders …OUR REVOLUTION-TEXAS — $40,000 · Civil RightsOUR REVOLUTI…+1 more — $15,000 · Civil RightsDEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO — $250,000 · Community ImprovementDEVELOPME…INDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT — $50,000 · Community ImprovementINDIAN CO…UNITE HERE EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FUND — $50,000 · Community ImprovementUNITE HER…+1 more — $10,000 · Community ImprovementHEALTHCARE-NOW INC — $121,000 · HealthLABOR CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE — $62,500 · HealthLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $40,000 · HealthTAKEACTION MINNESOTA — $100,000 · Public BenefitCONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER — $40,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $10,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC — $10,000 · Public BenefitMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $25,000 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $25,000 · InternationalAlliance for Global Justice Corp — $15,000 · InternationalUE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND — $10,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $10,000 · International
Other$1,575,005Education$1,336,971Civil Rights$475,300Community Improvement$360,000Health$223,500Public Benefit$160,000International$85,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $791,638 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $522,333 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHCARE-NOW INC — $121,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetPension Rights Center — $110,300 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTAKEACTION MINNESOTA — $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS — $96,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLABOR CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE — $62,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetPRIDE AT WORK AFL-CIO — $60,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetUNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA — $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNITE HERE EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS NURSES ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUS LABOR AGAINST RACISM AND WAR INC — $28,125 over 3y, 16% of budgetCOALITION OF BLACK TRADE UNIONISTS — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL UNION - UAW — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN MUSEUM TORT LAW INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetUNION VETERANS COUNCIL — $25,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOUISIANA AFL - CIO — $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISTRICT COUNCIL 47 HEALTH AND WELFARE FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION COMMUNITY FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetJOBS WITH JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND — $17,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAFL-CIO TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetIOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIndependent Media Institute — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

American Federation o…Communications Worker…American Federation o…Int Union United Auto…International Brother…International Union o…United Steel Paper an…International Brother…Unite HereUnited Food and Comme…National Education As…National Association …
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial OrganizationsDC26× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 organization National Nurses United 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Massachusetts Nurses Association — 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 56 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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