New Jersey · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR NURSING INC
INSTITUTE FOR NURSING INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,850 to it, the largest being Hackensack Meridian Health Inc-Subordinates ($5,350). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $710k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $-394175
What Institute for Nursing Inc does
Mission
To promote the profession of nursing, advance the practice of nursing and advocate for nurses. The mission is achieved through the activities of its members in education, policy development, leadership, professional representation, and workplace advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The recovery and monitoring program (ramp) was established in 2003 as an alternative to discipline program, managed by the institute for nursing for the new jersey board of nursing. Ramp is a confidential, voluntary program that works with the board of nursing, employers, and nurses to ensure public safety, safe practice, and health. It is designed to encourage health professionals to seek a recovery program before their impairment harms a patient or damages their careers through a disciplinary action. The new jersey state board of nursing refers nurses who qualify to ramp for monitoring as an alternative to disciplinary action. Ramp participation is also part of the reinstatement process for nurses with a licensing action. The institute is dedicated to proliferation of high quality continuing nursing education and professional development. The mission of njsna is to promote the profession of nursing, advance the practice of nursing and advocate for nurses njsna achieves its mission through education, policy development, leadership, professional representation, and workplace advocacy representation, and workplace advocacy.
$563,082 spentof which $19,500 as grants$564,658 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $563,082.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.2M to $947k (−19%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 62% · 2018 60% · 2019 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of INSTITUTE FOR NURSING INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Judy Schmidt
CEO
Board chair
Kristin Sagedy
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of INSTITUTE FOR NURSING INC’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
INSTITUTE FOR NURSING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
91% 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 INSTITUTE FOR NURSING INC.
“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
100% of INSTITUTE FOR NURSING INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
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.
Against its field
INSTITUTE FOR NURSING INC's revenue fell 29% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding INSTITUTE FOR NURSING INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.6M on record.
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$9.4M
- DEDICATED$163k
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 INSTITUTE FOR NURSING INC
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
40%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- New Jersey State Nursing Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR NURSING INC: 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 INSTITUTE FOR NURSING INC?
- INSTITUTE FOR NURSING INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,850 to it, the largest being Hackensack Meridian Health Inc-Subordinates ($5,350). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR NURSING INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,850 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR NURSING INC.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR NURSING INC?
- Hackensack Meridian Health Inc-Subordinates is the largest funder on record, with $5,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR NURSING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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