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URSINUS COLLEGE

URSINUS COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,718,790 to it, the largest being ABELE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($6,119,559). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$133M
Revenue FY2025
108
Funders on record
$17M
Grants received
$255M
Net assets
51/108 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

URSINUS COLLEGE's funding base is broadening — from 20 funders to 39 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 671 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($111M) Expenses 100 ($110M) Net assets 100 ($251M)2018 Revenue 99 ($110M) Expenses 101 ($111M) Net assets 100 ($251M)2019 Revenue 96 ($107M) Expenses 103 ($113M) Net assets 98 ($245M)2020 Revenue 109 ($121M) Expenses 107 ($117M) Net assets 93 ($232M)2021 Revenue 105 ($117M) Expenses 106 ($116M) Net assets 105 ($265M)2022 Revenue 115 ($128M) Expenses 115 ($126M) Net assets 98 ($245M)2023 Revenue 112 ($124M) Expenses 122 ($133M) Net assets 98 ($245M)2024 Revenue 115 ($128M) Expenses 126 ($139M) Net assets 98 ($247M)2025 Revenue 120 ($133M) Expenses 126 ($138M) Net assets 102 ($255M)
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Revenue (120)Expenses (126)Net assets (102)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 4% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

11% of URSINUS COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 729 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.5M
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$950k
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$6.0M
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$3.5M
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$512k
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$1.3M
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$8.9M
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$11M
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$5.3M
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0.7
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reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $2.6M.

19 of 108 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of URSINUS COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 108 funders by total. 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

URSINUS COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

37%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 42% · 2019 46% · 2020 41% · 2021 65% · 2022 57% · 2023 57%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.

How long its funders stay

32% of URSINUS COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

53% of URSINUS COLLEGE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

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

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 108 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding URSINUS COLLEGE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.1M on record — $14.9M federal, $179k state.

Federal$14.9M
grants $14.9Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Science Foundation$6.1M
  • Department of Education$5.7M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$2.6M
  • Department of Agriculture$206k
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration$169k
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$47k
State$179k
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Top programs
  • TUITION REIMBURSEMENTS$96k
  • ASSOC DUES AND CONF FEES$32k
  • ATHLETIC SERVICES$31k
  • STUDENT BODY ACTIVITY$9k
  • DIAMOND STATE SCHOLARSHIP$8k
  • ATHLETIC SUPPLIES$3k

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 URSINUS COLLEGE

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Pennsylvania

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 9%Fundraising 2%

Governance

27
board members
96%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 22 states

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Part of a family of 22 related entities

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  • Fkb I2 Irrevocable Unitrust · corp_trust
  • Nbc Charitable Remainder Unitrust 203 · corp_trust
  • Tg & Nbd Unitrust #1 · corp_trust
  • Tg & Nbd Unitrust #2 · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URSINUS COLLEGE: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds URSINUS COLLEGE?
URSINUS COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,718,790 to it, the largest being ABELE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($6,119,559). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does URSINUS COLLEGE have?
IRS filings report 108 organizations giving $16,718,790 in grants to URSINUS COLLEGE, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of URSINUS COLLEGE?
ABELE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,119,559 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like URSINUS COLLEGE 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.

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 108funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing