Washington · Nonprofit
Benton Franklin Head Start Program
Benton Franklin Head Start Program (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,175 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF BENTON & FRANKLIN COUNTIES ($202,675). 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 FY2026
- $8.0M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $208k
- Net assets
- $-32348
What Benton Franklin Head Start Program does
Mission
Benton franklin head start is a federally funded, with support from the community, preschool program that provides developmentally appropriate preschool activities for qualifying children.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Benton Franklin Head Start is a federally funded program that provides early childhood education, health, nutrition, and family support services to low-income families with children from birth to five residing in Benton and Franklin Counties. Head Start Preschool provides services to children ages 3 to 5 years. Part-day enrollment offers 73 slots, duration enrollment offers 197 slots. Early Head Start, a home-based program, serves pregnant women and children between the ages of 0 and 3. The program has 60 slots.Benton Franklin Head Start is a child development program that seeks to enhance the development of children from birth to five by establishing strong partnerships with the parents and the community.
$7,821,540 spent98% of program spendingEarly Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) is state-funded, and enrollment provides 20 slots.
$193,849 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,015,389.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.4M to $2.9M (+99%).
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 80% · 2018 83% · 2019 88% · 2020 91% · 2021 93% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% · 2024 90% · 2025 100% · 2026 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Benton Franklin Head Start Program’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Paul Strand
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $42k → $12k.
2 of 2 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 Benton Franklin Head Start Program’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
Benton Franklin Head Start Program leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Benton Franklin Head Start Program.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of Benton Franklin Head Start Program'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. $208k 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
Benton Franklin Head Start Program's revenue grew 45% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 204 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Organizations like Benton Franklin Head Start Program
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% 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 Benton Franklin Head Start Program: 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 Benton Franklin Head Start Program?
- Benton Franklin Head Start Program (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,175 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF BENTON & FRANKLIN COUNTIES ($202,675). 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 Benton Franklin Head Start Program have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $208,175 in grants to Benton Franklin Head Start Program, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Benton Franklin Head Start Program?
- UNITED WAY OF BENTON & FRANKLIN COUNTIES is the largest funder on record, with $202,675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Benton Franklin Head Start Program find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing