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ALBINA HEAD START INC

ALBINA HEAD START INC (Oregon) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,504,558 to it, the largest being KNIGHT FOUNDATION ATTN LISA MCKILLIPS ($20,000,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$34M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$25M
Net assets
$50M
8/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Albina Head Start Inc does

Mission

To provide head start/early head start education services to children and families, and educate parents in the area of child development, social services and health care.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide head start/early head start education services to children and families, and educate parents in the area of child development, social services and health care.

    $28,420,031 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $28,420,031.

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 ($17M) Expenses 100 ($17M) Net assets 100 ($10M)2018 Revenue 103 ($18M) Expenses 104 ($18M) Net assets 103 ($11M)2019 Revenue 108 ($19M) Expenses 107 ($18M) Net assets 111 ($12M)2020 Revenue 112 ($19M) Expenses 111 ($19M) Net assets 117 ($12M)2021 Revenue 237 ($41M) Expenses 135 ($23M) Net assets 296 ($31M)2022 Revenue 237 ($41M) Expenses 150 ($25M) Net assets 444 ($47M)2023 Revenue 154 ($27M) Expenses 156 ($27M) Net assets 453 ($47M)2024 Revenue 176 ($31M) Expenses 181 ($31M) Net assets 453 ($47M)2025 Revenue 195 ($34M) Expenses 185 ($31M) Net assets 478 ($50M)
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Revenue (195)Expenses (185)Net assets (478)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 $33M to $49M (+47%).

$20M
$20M
$22M
$23M
$33M
$49M
$50M
$51M
$53M
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 96% · 2018 97% · 2019 93% · 2020 95% · 2021 60% · 2022 59% · 2023 97% · 2024 97% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of ALBINA HEAD START INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (26% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 149 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$391k
’17
$228k
’18
$586k
’19
$625k
’20
$18M
’21
$16M
’22
$218k
’23
−$139k
’24
$2.5M
’25
6.4
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

Ronnie Herndon

Executive director

Board chair

Richard Brown

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $0 → $5.1M.

4 of 17 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 ALBINA HEAD START INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 17 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

ALBINA HEAD START INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

82%
largest funder
96%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 68% · 2020 69% · 2021 45% · 2022 94% · 2023 98% — 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

25% of ALBINA HEAD START INC'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

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

99% of ALBINA HEAD START INC's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

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

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Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ALBINA HEAD START INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 95 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve6.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 95 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding ALBINA HEAD START INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $163.8M on record — $93.4M federal, $70.4M state.

Federal$93.4M
grants $93.4Mcontracts $0
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  • Department of Health and Human Services$93.4M
State$70.4M
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Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$43.1M
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$25.9M
  • OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$1.3M
  • PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$62k
  • AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$15k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

87%

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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Questions and answers

Who funds ALBINA HEAD START INC?
ALBINA HEAD START INC (Oregon) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,504,558 to it, the largest being KNIGHT FOUNDATION ATTN LISA MCKILLIPS ($20,000,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ALBINA HEAD START INC have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $24,504,558 in grants to ALBINA HEAD START INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALBINA HEAD START INC?
KNIGHT FOUNDATION ATTN LISA MCKILLIPS is the largest funder on record, with $20,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALBINA HEAD START INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 17 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