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SPECIALTY OUTREACH SERVICES INC

SPECIALTY OUTREACH SERVICES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,000 to it, the largest being THE SEDWICK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($46,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$487k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$59k
Net assets
$112k
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Specialty Outreach Services Inc does

Mission

To reach out to those individuals in need with the compassion, understanding, hope and love as demonstrated by our lord and savior jesus christ and in the holy bible, in order to assist in directing, encouraging, and enabling those indiduals to live a more positive and productive lifestyle.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.

Program

Specialty Outreach Services, Inc. conducts mentoring, couseling, tutoring, meals and other program activities to direct, encourage, and enable youth to live a more positive and productive lifestyle.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

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 ($626k) Expenses 100 ($680k) Net assets 100 ($159k)2018 Revenue 109 ($682k) Expenses 111 ($755k) Net assets 54 ($86k)2019 Revenue 75 ($472k) Expenses 78 ($528k) Net assets 19 ($30k)2020 Revenue 78 ($487k) Expenses 60 ($405k) Net assets 70 ($112k)
2017201820192020
Revenue (78)Expenses (60)Net assets (70)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $335k to $394k (+18%).

$377k
$362k
$335k
$394k
2017201820192020
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$54k
’17
−$73k
’18
−$56k
’19
$82k
’20
3.1
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.

2017201820192020
Listed7997
Joined·+6+2+3
No longer listed·425
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $49k → $10k.

From the IRS filings of SPECIALTY OUTREACH SERVICES 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

SPECIALTY OUTREACH SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% 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

78%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

95% of SPECIALTY OUTREACH SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA
TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
Pennsylvania out of state home

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 SPECIALTY OUTREACH SERVICES 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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 31%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
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.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPECIALTY OUTREACH SERVICES 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 SPECIALTY OUTREACH SERVICES INC?
SPECIALTY OUTREACH SERVICES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,000 to it, the largest being THE SEDWICK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($46,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SPECIALTY OUTREACH SERVICES INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $59,000 in grants to SPECIALTY OUTREACH SERVICES INC.
Who is the largest funder of SPECIALTY OUTREACH SERVICES INC?
THE SEDWICK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $46,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPECIALTY OUTREACH SERVICES INC 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 3 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