Illinois · Nonprofit
American Organization for Nursing Leadership
American Organization for Nursing Leadership (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $427,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC ($275,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $427k
- Net assets
- $19M
What American Organization for Nursing Leadership does
Mission
The American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) is the national organization of nurses who design, facilitate, and manage care. With more than 10,000 members, AONL is the voice of nursing leadership in health care. The AONL mission is to shape health care through innovative and expert nursing leadership.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
AONL SERVES ITS MEMBERS AND THE NURSING PROFESSION WITH A NUMBER OF EDUCATIONAL programs (face to face and online) PUBLICATIONS, THE AONL WEBSITE, SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, AND THE AONL ANNUAL MEETING AND EXPOSITION. AONL provides nurse leader education programs for executives, directors, managers and clinical leaders. Topics range from health care finance, CENP and CNML review courses, shared governance and emerging leader competencies. AONL's annual meeting has over 50 concurrent sessions as well as multiple nationally known keynote speakers and over 3,500 nurse leaders attend. Continuing education credits is available for most AONL programs. AONL develops Guiding Principles, Tool Kits, position statements and articles on all topics affecting nurse leaders.
AONL serves its members by: offering information that supports and enhances the management, leadership, educational and professional development of nursing leaders, providing vision and actions for nursing leadership to meet the health care needs of society, influencing legislation and public policy related to nursing and patient care issues, and facilitating and supporting research and development efforts that advance nursing administration practice and quality patient care. AONL'S NETWORK OF PROFESSIONALS PROVIDES ACCESS TO THE DIVERSE TALENTS AND EXPERIENCES OF THOUSANDS OF NURSES WHO ARE COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE IN NURSING LEADERSHIP AND PATIENT CARE DELIVERY.
Aonl advocates on the issues of most concern to nurse leaders and those they serve, including supporting the nurse education act, supporting initiatives that will ensure a safe and quality-driven environment for the patients and providers, and supporting legislation that will foster the nurse leader's role in the management of the care environment, especially in areas related to staffing, information technology, and patient care services.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $17M to $20M (+18%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $52k → $30k.
From the IRS filings of American Organization for Nursing Leadership’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
American Organization for Nursing Leadership leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund American Organization for Nursing Leadership.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 50% · 2020 89% · 2021 60% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
American Organization for Nursing Leadership draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding American Organization for Nursing Leadership receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$1.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like American Organization for Nursing Leadership
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- American Hospital Association · exempt
- Health Research and Educational Trust · exempt
- Ahapac · exempt
- Aonl Foundation for Nursing Leadership Research and Education · exempt
- Health Forum Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for American Organization for Nursing Leadership: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds American Organization for Nursing Leadership?
- American Organization for Nursing Leadership (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $427,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC ($275,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does American Organization for Nursing Leadership have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $427,000 in grants to American Organization for Nursing Leadership, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of American Organization for Nursing Leadership?
- AMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like American Organization for Nursing Leadership find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing