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California Nursing Students Association

California Nursing Students Association (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,500 to it, the largest being CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$213k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$14k
Net assets
$4k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What California Nursing Students Association does

Mission

California Nursing Students Association is a statewide community advancing thetransition of the student to professional nurse through leadership development,education, mentorship, advocacy, activism, and stewardship.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The California Nursing Students Association (CNSA) is a constituent chapter of theNational Student Nurses Association (NSNA). CNSA is composed of over 5,000 memberswho are committed in seeking optimal educational, developmental, and professionalgrowth within today's various healthcare settings. Membership in CNSA is automaticwhen you join NSNA. While the nursing profession was still feeling the effects of the pandemic, CNSA continued to provide resources and education throughout the year through our website, newsletter and webinars. We continue to be the largest component of the national organization. CNSA planned and executed an annual education convention which had marked growth from the previous year.

    $219,847 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $219,847.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($215k) Expenses 100 ($190k) Net assets 100 ($200k)2018 Revenue 82 ($178k) Expenses 101 ($192k) Net assets 93 ($186k)2019 Revenue 91 ($197k) Expenses 126 ($239k) Net assets 71 ($143k)2021 Revenue 42 ($91k) Expenses 41 ($78k) Net assets 65 ($130k)2022 Revenue 43 ($92k) Expenses 43 ($82k) Net assets 70 ($140k)2024 Revenue 95 ($204k) Expenses 116 ($220k) Net assets 11 ($22k)2025 Revenue 99 ($213k) Expenses 121 ($231k) Net assets 2 ($4k)
2017201820192021202220242025
Revenue (99)Expenses (121)Net assets (2)

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 $186k to $143k (−23%).

$200k
$186k
$143k
$130k
$140k
$22k
$4k
2017201820192021202220242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’17
−$15k
’18
−$43k
’19
$13k
’21
$10k
’22
−$16k
’24
−$18k
’25
0.2
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

201720242025
Listed111313
Joined··+8
No longer listed··8
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
Dignity Healthunclassified
$6k
funders
2

From the IRS filings of California Nursing Students Association’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

California Nursing Students Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 California Nursing Students Association.

56%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

56% of California Nursing Students Association's grant income comes from California funders.

CA
AZ

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like California Nursing Students Association

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for California Nursing Students Association: 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 California Nursing Students Association?
California Nursing Students Association (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,500 to it, the largest being CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does California Nursing Students Association have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $13,500 in grants to California Nursing Students Association.
Who is the largest funder of California Nursing Students Association?
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like California Nursing Students Association find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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