Montana · Nonprofit
CENTRAL MONTANA HEAD START
CENTRAL MONTANA HEAD START (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $33,700 to it, the largest being TOWN PUMP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($33,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CENTRAL MONTANA HEAD START's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Cascade Countyshared fundersportfolio match
- United Way of the Lewis and Clark Area Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Montana Healthcare Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
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.
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 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% · 2024 100% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CENTRAL MONTANA HEAD START’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 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $5k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $8k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Central Montana Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTRAL MONTANA HEAD START raised.
From the IRS filings of CENTRAL MONTANA 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
100% of CENTRAL MONTANA HEAD START's grant income comes from Montana funders.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Cascade Countyshared fundersportfolio matchMT · backs 10 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of the Lewis and Clark Area Incshared fundersportfolio matchMT · backs 16 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Montana Healthcare Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchMT · backs 41 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sample Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchMT · backs 49 organizations that share your funders · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Homestead Foundation InclocalMT · funds 5 organizations near you
- United Way of Missoula Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Appleseed Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parents as Teachers National Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Helena Area Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montanaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Healthy Child Care Coloradoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Early Milestones Coloradoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding CENTRAL MONTANA HEAD START receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$14.0M
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 CENTRAL MONTANA HEAD START
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% 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 CENTRAL MONTANA 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTRAL MONTANA HEAD START?
- CENTRAL MONTANA HEAD START (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $33,700 to it, the largest being TOWN PUMP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($33,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRAL MONTANA HEAD START have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $33,700 in grants to CENTRAL MONTANA HEAD START, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL MONTANA HEAD START?
- TOWN PUMP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $33,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL MONTANA HEAD START find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing