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DISTINCTIVE HUMAN SERVICES

DISTINCTIVE HUMAN SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $37,020 to it, the largest being THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EXCHANGE OF INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES INC ($37,020). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$37k
Net assets
$139k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Distinctive Human Services does

Mission

Provide supportive services to allow individuals to continue to live with dignity and comfort in their own homes. The agency provides an integrated range of human service programs to address the physical, social and economic needs of adults 18 and older by offering Distinctive Human Services.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operation of guardianship, power of attorney and financial managementprograms and to serveas an advocate/agent to those who need services. (indigent,elderly,mentally/physical challenged) based on an appointment from the courts or the client.

    $1,261,773 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,261,773.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($445k) Expenses 100 ($444k) Net assets 100 ($9k)2018 Revenue 100 ($444k) Expenses 100 ($442k) Net assets 124 ($11k)2019 Revenue 97 ($434k) Expenses 99 ($438k) Net assets 78 ($7k)2020 Revenue 144 ($643k) Expenses 116 ($514k) Net assets 1461 ($135k)2021 Revenue 165 ($734k) Expenses 165 ($734k) Net assets 1465 ($136k)2022 Revenue 204 ($909k) Expenses 206 ($916k) Net assets 1386 ($128k)2023 Revenue 288 ($1.3M) Expenses 284 ($1.3M) Net assets 1617 ($150k)2024 Revenue 295 ($1.3M) Expenses 298 ($1.3M) Net assets 1498 ($139k)
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Revenue (295)Expenses (298)Net assets (1498)Peer revenue range

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 $559k to $3.1M (+447%).

$481k
$463k
$471k
$566k
$559k
$3.1M
$2.1M
$3.6M
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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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of DISTINCTIVE HUMAN SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$540
’17
$2k
’18
−$4k
’19
$128k
’20
$307
’21
−$7k
’22
$21k
’23
−$11k
’24
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.

Chief executive

Ellen Hamilton

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed88666666
Joined·+0+3+0+0+0+0+4
No longer listed·0500004
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $12k.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of DISTINCTIVE HUMAN SERVICES’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.

Where its funders are

DISTINCTIVE HUMAN SERVICES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state in all.

IL

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

Against its field

DISTINCTIVE HUMAN SERVICES has grown faster than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like DISTINCTIVE HUMAN SERVICES

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 Pennsylvania

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

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DISTINCTIVE HUMAN SERVICES: 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 DISTINCTIVE HUMAN SERVICES?
DISTINCTIVE HUMAN SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $37,020 to it, the largest being THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EXCHANGE OF INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES INC ($37,020). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DISTINCTIVE HUMAN SERVICES have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $37,020 in grants to DISTINCTIVE HUMAN SERVICES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DISTINCTIVE HUMAN SERVICES?
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EXCHANGE OF INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES INC is the largest funder on record, with $37,020 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DISTINCTIVE HUMAN SERVICES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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