Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
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.
Against its field
URSINUS COLLEGE's funding base is broadening — from 20 funders to 39 as grant income climbed.
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.
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared funders
- Women's Aid of Penn Central Sch Iasportfolio match
- Asianetwork Incportfolio match
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.
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: 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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.
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 122 organizations that share your funders
- Women's Aid of Penn Central Sch Iasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asianetwork Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hoover Samuel L Tuaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robtjulia Johnston Scholarshipportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jephson Educational Trust #1 Xxxxx0006portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 161 organizations that share your funders
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 104 organizations that share your funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Instituteshared fundersMD · backs 134 organizations that share your funders
- Northeastern Universityshared fundersMA · backs 109 organizations that share your funders
- Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Incshared fundersIL · backs 102 organizations that share your funders
- University of Delawareshared fundersDE · backs 99 organizations that share your funders
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.
- 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
- 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 22 states
Part of a family of 22 related entities
- Fkb I Irrevocable Unitrust · corp_trust
- 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.
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