Arkansas · Nonprofit
ARKANSAS HEAD START ASSOCIATION INC
ARKANSAS HEAD START ASSOCIATION INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $85 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($85). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $222k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $85
- Net assets
- $-14655
What Arkansas Head Start Association Inc does
Mission
Promoting Head Start in Arkansas. The Arkansas Head Start Association's mission is to promote structured leadership and collaboration on the state and local levels by planning, informing, advocating, and delivering innovative and quality trainings, technical assistance, and support to Early Head Start, Head Start, and Migrant-Seasonal Head Start directors, staff, parents, and friends in the state of Arkansas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Administered the Arkansas Head Start State Collaboration Office. The purpose of the Arkansas Head Start State Collaboration Office is to create a visible presence at the state level, which can assist in the development of significant, multi-agency and public private partnerships between Head Start and the state with specific focus on cooperation, coordination, and collaboration within nine key activity areas: 1) health care, 2) services for children experiencing homelessness, 3) welfare/child welfare, 4) child care, 5) family literacy services, 6) services for children with disabilities, 7) community services, 8) education, divided into 8A) publicly funded Pre-K partnership development and 8B) Head Start transition and alignment with K-12, and 9) professional development.
$131,784 spent57% of program spendingAnnual Training institute and other trainings held annually with approximately 100-300 participants at the institute and 65-150 for the school readiness summit.
$35,664 spent$38,221 earned by the program15% of program spendingMaintained State Office to serve 19 Head Start grantees serving almost 8,000 children and families. The Board and Executive Committee had 6 meetings. (19 programs at the end of year)
$63,556 spent28% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $231,004.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $160k to $95k (−41%).
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: 2018 46% · 2019 47% · 2020 61% · 2021 52% · 2022 44% · 2023 46% · 2024 50% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of ARKANSAS HEAD START ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $24 → $22.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ARKANSAS HEAD START ASSOCIATION 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ARKANSAS HEAD START ASSOCIATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ARKANSAS HEAD START ASSOCIATION INC's revenue fell 18% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARKANSAS HEAD START ASSOCIATION 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 ARKANSAS HEAD START ASSOCIATION INC?
- ARKANSAS HEAD START ASSOCIATION INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $85 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($85). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARKANSAS HEAD START ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $85 in grants to ARKANSAS HEAD START ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARKANSAS HEAD START ASSOCIATION INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $85 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARKANSAS HEAD START ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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