Utah · Nonprofit
BEAR RIVER HEAD START
BEAR RIVER HEAD START (Utah) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,309,825 to it, the largest being IDAHO HEAD START ASSOCIATION INC ($1,309,825). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $9.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $111k
What Bear River Head Start does
Mission
Bear River Head Start is committed to providing opportunities for education and growth to children, families, staff, and community in a nurturing and supportive environment.this mission will be accomplished with integrity, respect, and honesty.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Head start grants from hhs to serve families in northern utah and southern idaho and individual contributions.
$8,089,980 spent94% of program spendingUsda food program for breakfast, lunch, and snack for center-based children throughout the year.
$383,036 spent4% of program spendingIdaho temporary assistance for needy families is a collaboration with idaho department of health and welfare to provide head start services to families that qualify for "temporary assistance for needy families".
$153,644 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,626,660.
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.
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 $1.4M to $3.5M (+152%).
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 90% · 2018 93% · 2019 94% · 2020 96% · 2021 95% · 2022 94% · 2023 93% · 2024 100% · 2025 100% · 2026 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 10 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.
Board chair
Brooks Bodily
Chairman
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $82k → $86k.
From the IRS filings of BEAR RIVER HEAD START’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
BEAR RIVER HEAD START draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Government funding BEAR RIVER HEAD START receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $82.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$82.9M
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 BEAR RIVER HEAD START
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BEAR RIVER HEAD START: 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 BEAR RIVER HEAD START?
- BEAR RIVER HEAD START (Utah) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,309,825 to it, the largest being IDAHO HEAD START ASSOCIATION INC ($1,309,825). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEAR RIVER HEAD START have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,309,825 in grants to BEAR RIVER HEAD START, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEAR RIVER HEAD START?
- IDAHO HEAD START ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,309,825 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEAR RIVER HEAD START find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), 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