Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
National League for Nursing
National League for Nursing (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $497,900 to it, the largest being William Randolph Hearst Foundation ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $498k
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What National League for Nursing does
Mission
The National League for Nursing promotes excellence in nursing education to build a strong and diverse nursing workforce to advance the health of the nation and the global community. The National League for Nursing implements its mission guided by four dynamic and integrated core values that permeate the organization and are reflected in its work: caring: promoting health, healing, and hope in response to the human condition; integrity: respecting the dignity and moral wholeness of every person without conditions or limitation; diversity: affirming the uniqueness of and differences among persons, ideas, values, and ethnicities; excellence: creating and implementing transformative strategies with daring ingenuity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The National League for Nursing is developing nurses for nursing faculty educational programs, testing services, nursing education research, publications and other resources. They help nurse educators fulfill their roles, advance the science of nursing education and scholarship of teaching, provide leadership in setting educational standards and collect and disseminate data about nursing programs and their students.
$6,871,670 spentof which $35,000 as grants$7,275,940 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,871,670.
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 2020 to 2021, from $6.8M to $11M (+56%).
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: 2018 0% · 2020 7% · 2021 2% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Patricia A Sharpnack
Nln chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $23k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $14k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest NLN Foundation for Nursing Education). These are real filings, and they are not money National League for Nursing raised.
From the IRS filings of National League for Nursing’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
National League for Nursing leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
25% 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 National League for Nursing.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 86% · 2022 91% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“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
National League for Nursing draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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 National League for Nursing receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record — $1.5M federal, $18k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.5M
- Membership in Organizations$13k
- Licences, Permits, etc.$5k
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 National League for Nursing
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Accreditation Commission for Edu in Nurs · exempt
- Nln Foundation for Nursing Education · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for National League for Nursing: 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 National League for Nursing?
- National League for Nursing (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $497,900 to it, the largest being William Randolph Hearst Foundation ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does National League for Nursing have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $497,900 in grants to National League for Nursing, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of National League for Nursing?
- William Randolph Hearst Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like National League for Nursing find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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