Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
URSULINE SUPPORT SERVICES
URSULINE SUPPORT SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $455,564 to it, the largest being HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS ($349,219). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $456k
- Net assets
- $722k
What Ursuline Support Services does
Mission
Helping individuals who experience challengers posed by life's transitions, inspiring hope through protection, education, and advocacy. See schedule o for ursuline's vision.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Guardianship services - ursuline originally established its guardianship program through a contract with the allegheny county area agency on aging (aaa). This program primarily serves low-income persons who are 60+ in age and meet the aaa criteria for service. Today, ursuline is the only agency in allegheny county contracted to provide such services for this segment of the population. As part of the county contract, ursuline maintains a contract with kane regional nursing centers to provide services to appropriate residents in thier facilities.in addition to this county-contracted activity, ursuline provides guardianship services to both indigent wards and those with large estates who reside inside and outside allegheny county. These services are provided through ursuline's private (fee for service) guardianship program to individuals residing in more than 15 counties throughout the western pennsylvania area, the largest concentration of those residing in cambria county. Services are also provided to wards and other disabled persons through ursuline's special needs trust. Ursuline provides these services to 181 wards located inside and outside of allegheny county.
$510,000 spent$573,153 earned by the program18% of program spendingProtective services - through a contract with the allegheny county area agency on aging, ursuline's protective services investigators identify older adults who are vulnerable to abuse, neglect, and exploitation. These abuses can take the form of self-neglect, caregiver neglect, abandonment, or physical, sexual, emotional and financial distress. Ursuline's staff investigates all allegations of abuse and, through working through various resources, develops a plan to correct the situation. Ursuline identified 2,411 reports of need during the year.
$1,606,646 spent56% of program spendingService coordination/supportive living enhancement program (slep) - with nearly 35 years' experience working with seniors, ursuline is able to meet and face the challenges apparent in present-day public housing facilities. The addition of service coordination was a natural extension of ursuline's existing array of services provided to the elderly throughout the community.in addition to providing information and referral, advocacy and linking individuals to community resources, ursuline's service coordinators throughout the city of pittsburgh work with the residents to arrange recreational activities and provide health support. Service coordinators also arrange informational and educational presentations. For residents. Slep is a program of, and underwritten by, the housing authority of the city of pittsburgh and supported by the allegheny county area agency on aging. Ursuline served 685 residents during the year.
$155,397 spent5% of program spendingIndependence support services (iss) - checks & balance - ursuline's money management program (now referred to as "checks & balance"), sponsored by the allegheny county area agency on aging, assists low-income elderly persons who have difficulty with their financial affairs and maintaining their monthly cash flow.implemented according to a national model developed by aarp, this program matches trained volunteers with seniors who need help budgeting and ensuring that their bills are paid on time. The volunteers prepare bills for payment, assist with check writing and balance checkbooks. One of the core concepts of the program is to keep seniors financially independent, by ensuring that all their monthly obligations are met. Ursuline provided services to 05 consumers during the year.beginning in 2014, the program began offering representative payee services in conjunction with the social security administration using the same volunteer support model that is the basis of the checks & balance program. Ursuline provided services to 83 consumers during the year.
$596,742 spent$100,151 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,868,785.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $815k to $1.2M (+43%).
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 70% · 2018 72% · 2019 71% · 2020 64% · 2021 81% · 2022 79% · 2023 76% · 2024 78% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of URSULINE SUPPORT SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Anthony J Turo
Executive director
Board chair
Robert T O'Connor
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $19k → $84.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 URSULINE SUPPORT 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.
How concentrated its funding is
URSULINE SUPPORT SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 87% · 2021 100% · 2022 81% · 2023 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.
How long its funders stay
13% of URSULINE SUPPORT SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
98% of URSULINE SUPPORT SERVICES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is 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.
Against its field
URSULINE SUPPORT SERVICES has grown faster than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like URSULINE SUPPORT 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URSULINE SUPPORT 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 URSULINE SUPPORT SERVICES?
- URSULINE SUPPORT SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $455,564 to it, the largest being HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS ($349,219). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URSULINE SUPPORT SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $455,564 in grants to URSULINE SUPPORT SERVICES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URSULINE SUPPORT SERVICES?
- HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS is the largest funder on record, with $349,219 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URSULINE SUPPORT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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