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CATTARAUGUS COUNTY PROJECT HEAD START INC

CATTARAUGUS COUNTY PROJECT HEAD START INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $445,022 to it, the largest being HEALTH FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN & CENTRAL NEW YORK ($212,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$5.3M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$445k
Net assets
$196k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Cattaraugus County Project Head Start Inc does

Mission

Empowering families' well-being while nurturing and educating children for school and life.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Head start serves 200 children between the ages of 3-4 in a center based program at seven sites.early head start program serves 66 children from birth to 3 years of age and pregnant women in a home based program.

    $4,385,464 spent
    91% of program spending
  2. Ocfs child care stabilization program - program provided to assist child care programs with staff retention.

    $239,008 spent
    5% of program spending
  3. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $195,628 spent$22,551 earned by the program
    4% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,820,100.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.5M) Expenses 100 ($4.4M) Net assets 100 ($280k)2018 Revenue 101 ($4.5M) Expenses 104 ($4.5M) Net assets 98 ($273k)2019 Revenue 101 ($4.5M) Expenses 106 ($4.6M) Net assets 62 ($174k)2020 Revenue 110 ($4.9M) Expenses 111 ($4.9M) Net assets 93 ($261k)2021 Revenue 109 ($4.9M) Expenses 113 ($5.0M) Net assets 72 ($202k)2022 Revenue 117 ($5.2M) Expenses 118 ($5.2M) Net assets 100 ($280k)2023 Revenue 115 ($5.2M) Expenses 118 ($5.2M) Net assets 86 ($240k)2024 Revenue 119 ($5.3M) Expenses 123 ($5.4M) Net assets 70 ($196k)
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Revenue (119)Expenses (123)Net assets (70)

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 $567k to $1.4M (+152%).

$637k
$539k
$425k
$721k
$567k
$1.4M
$1000k
$1.2M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 93% · 2018 95% · 2019 97% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% · 2024 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$106k
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−$6k
’18
−$99k
’19
$87k
’20
−$59k
’21
$78k
’22
−$41k
’23
−$44k
’24
0.6
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

Danielle Amore

CEO/head start director st

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed999910899
Joined·+1+2+0+2+1+1+0
No longer listed·1201300
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $122k → $88k.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 CATTARAUGUS COUNTY PROJECT 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

CATTARAUGUS COUNTY PROJECT HEAD START INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

52% 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 CATTARAUGUS COUNTY PROJECT HEAD START INC.

48%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 64% · 2021 70% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of CATTARAUGUS COUNTY PROJECT HEAD START INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding CATTARAUGUS COUNTY PROJECT HEAD START INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $42.8M on record.

Federal$42.8M
grants $42.8Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$42.8M

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

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds CATTARAUGUS COUNTY PROJECT HEAD START INC?
CATTARAUGUS COUNTY PROJECT HEAD START INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $445,022 to it, the largest being HEALTH FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN & CENTRAL NEW YORK ($212,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CATTARAUGUS COUNTY PROJECT HEAD START INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $445,022 in grants to CATTARAUGUS COUNTY PROJECT HEAD START INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CATTARAUGUS COUNTY PROJECT HEAD START INC?
HEALTH FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN & CENTRAL NEW YORK is the largest funder on record, with $212,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CATTARAUGUS COUNTY PROJECT HEAD START INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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