Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START INC
BRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,613 to it, the largest being HORACE B PACKER FOUNDATION INC ($12,424). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.2M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Bradford-Tioga Head Start Inc does
Mission
Bradford-tioga head start's mission is to provide a variety of high quality supportive services that help children and families grow and thrive. Services provided are head start, early head start, and pre-k for newborns to children aged five and pregnant women.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Bradford-tioga head start, inc. Provides three primary programs: head start, early head start, and pa pre-k counts. Head start is a federal and state funded program and pa pre-k counts is a state-funded program; all of which are at no cost to families. All programs promote school readiness by enhancing the social, emotional, and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social, and other services to enrolled children (ages 3-5) and their families. Early head start (ehs) is a federal home-based program offered at no cost that provides parenting skills during personalized weekly visits. Ehs provides education as well as free health, nutrition, and social services. (continued on sch o) the program has nineteen (19) preschool classrooms and six (6) early head start service areas throughout bradford and tioga counties.bradford-tioga head start, inc. Preschool classrooms provide either 5.5 or 5.75 hours a day, 180 days a year to children. Bradford-tioga head start, inc. Provides in person services throughout the year; however, if make-up days are exhausted, the program can use the program developed flexible instruction plan. The…
$7,468,297 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,468,297.
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 $1.1M to $2.0M (+77%).
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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% · 2024 101% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START INC’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. 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
Wendy Swingle
President/executive director
Board chair
Sam Rotella
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $250 → $2k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 BRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START 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.
How concentrated its funding is
BRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 73% · 2019 89% · 2020 65% · 2021 72% · 2022 31% · 2023 64% — diversifying over time.
“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
50% of BRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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 BRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $723 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
BRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $34.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$34.0M
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 BRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START INC
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
92% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START 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 BRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START INC?
- BRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,613 to it, the largest being HORACE B PACKER FOUNDATION INC ($12,424). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $28,613 in grants to BRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START INC?
- HORACE B PACKER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,424 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START INC 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 10 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