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· Public charity
NLN Foundation for Nursing Education
The mission of the NLN Foundation for Nursing Education is to raise, safeguard, and distribute funds that promote excellence in nursing education to build a strong and diverse nursing workforce to advance the health of the nation and the global community.
$216k
Granted FY2024
5
Grants
5
Communities
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0171% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Education$414kOther$169k
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
2018
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2019
archive
2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
knowledge
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $62k
$16,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$25,000
- Marquette University$21,000
- University of Alabama in Huntsville$16,000
- Duke University$6,000
- Emory University$5,000
02The need
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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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 13%. 89% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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 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.
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Philadelphia University
To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.
Education
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University of Chicago
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
Education
3
Washington University
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
Education
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New York University
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.
Education
5
University of Virginia Law School
The primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds to benefit the uva law school.
Education
6
University of Virginia Alumni
To build the strongest bond among alumni and between alumni and the university of virginia while representing the independent voice and perspective of alumni.
Education
7
William Penn University
William penn university provides the opportunity for an educational experience with a focus on leadership, technology, and the quaker principles of simplicity, peace-making, intergrity, community and equality.
Education
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Catholic University of America
The catholic university of america is the national university of the catholic church in the united states.
Education
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Trinity University
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Education
10
National Louis University
Nlu is an inclusive community providing educational opportunities to inspire & empower learners to prepare for & advance in meaningful lives and productive careers.
Education
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University of Illinois Alumni
The mission of the university of illinois alumni association is to enhance and advance the relationship between the university of illinois and all of its alumni.
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Loyola University
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Depaul University and the most unlike its peers is Loyola University of Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$414,104Other$169,368
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.
- Who funds Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York ↗
- Who funds Loyola University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Virginia Commonwealth University ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR NURSING INC ↗
- Who funds Duke University ↗
- Who funds JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation NLN Foundation for Nursing Education 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
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
04Through 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: Virginia Commonwealth University.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~26 months of operating runway; revenue held over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 540757884 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 Virginia Commonwealth University, 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
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 26 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- 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 NLN Foundation for Nursing Education?
Find your warmest path to NLN Foundation for Nursing Education 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.
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