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THE CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR NURSING WORKFORCE INC
THE CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR NURSING WORKFORCE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $630,440 to it, the largest being EVA STEARNS FAULKNER FOUNDATION ($530,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $689k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $630k
- Net assets
- $205k
What The Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce Inc does
Mission
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
1. Ccnw uses its expertise to support statewide nursing workforce development efforts. Work with the workplace, inc.'s health careerrx academy (hca) and the workforce alliance to help individuals in career transitions seeking to enter the healthcare field. Conduct core skills training workshops and customer service & diversity workshops to help individuals understand the healthcare industry, ease their transition into an education pathway, and ultimately to the practice setting. Support the hca as an active partner to vet new educational offerings, engage in continuous quality improvement for all workshops and sessions to accurately reflect current education and employment options. Ccnw is acting in the role of nurse consultant to the ct health horizons initiative providing: data, innovative workforce development strategies, and support to the nursing schools funded under this statewide nursing and social work project. Moreover, partnered with hartford healthcare's 10 hospitals and engaged with their (17) academic partners to utilizing ccnw's proprietary online student clinical placement system to assign, manage, and archive clinical placements, observations, and capstones…
$134,167 spent$7,250 earned by the program24% of program spending2. Ccnw's 100% online rn refresher course serves nurses throughout the country who wish to re-enter the nursing workforce. This faculty-led four module 17-week course incorporates the use of two virtual hospital experiences thereby eliminating the on-the-ground clinical module complemented by two modules of didactic education. Boards of nursing throughout the country promote this course to their registered nurses seeking to return to work. Ccnw's 100% online clinical nurse faculty preparation course serves nurses throughout the country who wish to prepare themselves for the role of part time clinical nurse faculty. This faculty-led six module 3-week course was based on national studies that reveal that the acute shortage of full-time nursing faculty hinders the expansion of enrollments which are essential to being able to address the severe nursing shortage. This clinical nurse faculty course helps schools increase student capacity of their programs to positively impact the proposed nursing shortage, as well as, acts as a pipeline to develop full-time nursing faculty. The course helps doctoral and masters prepared nurses to "hit the ground running and transition to the role of…
$155,111 spent$77,405 earned by the program28% of program spending3. Background check and drug screening services for schools and programs of nursing & allied health within connecticut. Currently 14 schools with over 50 academic programs partner with ccnw to oversee the background check process for their students and faculty. This partnership provides the school an "out of house" resource to conduct background checks and drug screenings for students and faculty by providing notification of "passed or flagged" status of each student to assess appropriateness for a student's clinical placement experiences.
$162,948 spent$194,612 earned by the program30% of program spendingRn student day provides all graduating associate and baccalaureate degree nursing students with a day of professional development focused on job search strategies, career opportunities and nclex preparation. The annual event attracts over 750 participants and 40 exhibitors.speakers and exhibitors showcase educational resources for academic advancement, job opportunities available at state and regional healthcare facilities, and support services for nclex preparation. The event culminates with peer recognition awards highlighting exemplarystudents within each school and program of nursing.ccnw hosts an annual statewide nursing & healthcare workforce summit. The focus of the summit was to highlight 2022 data related to current nursing skill gaps in connecticut's nursing workforce by assessing the capacity of our education pipelines, availability of faculty; and sharing the supply of nurses prepared for the roles of rn and lpn. The summit also showcased promising practices by statewide partners to identify how best to align available resources and dollars in targeted nursing education and practice areas to minimize future skill gaps and achieve optimal return on investment.
$98,411 spent$126,741 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $550,637.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $70k to $401k (+473%).
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: 2023 15% · 2024 19% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of THE CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR NURSING WORKFORCE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Tina Loarte-Rodriguez
Executive director
Board chair
Catherine Stevens
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $300k → $125k.
From the IRS filings of THE CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR NURSING WORKFORCE 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
THE CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR NURSING WORKFORCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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 THE CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR NURSING WORKFORCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 80% — 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
100% of THE CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR NURSING WORKFORCE INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
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.
Against its field
THE CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR NURSING WORKFORCE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR NURSING WORKFORCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4k on record.
- Educational Services$3k
- Subscriptions$850
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 THE CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR NURSING WORKFORCE 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR NURSING WORKFORCE INC?
- THE CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR NURSING WORKFORCE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $630,440 to it, the largest being EVA STEARNS FAULKNER FOUNDATION ($530,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR NURSING WORKFORCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $630,440 in grants to THE CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR NURSING WORKFORCE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR NURSING WORKFORCE INC?
- EVA STEARNS FAULKNER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $530,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR NURSING WORKFORCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2019–2025), 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