Colorado · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE HEAD START
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE HEAD START (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being KI BOIS COMMUNITY ACTION FOUNDATION ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Community Development Institute Head Start does
Mission
Cdi is the national interim management contractor under dhhs, acf, office of head start. In the direct operation of head start programs, cdi has served 131,000 children and employed over 35,000 local head start staff as the nim contractor since 2000. Cdi has operated 269 head start/early head start programs in 48 states, including the district of columbia and puerto rico.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, cdi hs provided head start educational and childcare services to children in head start programs under interim management.
$31,587,690 spent$354,847 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $31,587,690.
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 2018 to 2019, from $4.6M to $13M (+171%).
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 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 97% · 2020 97% · 2021 97% · 2022 90% · 2023 98% · 2024 91% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE HEAD START’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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
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
Mark Elliott
Exec. Director/president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Against its field
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE HEAD START's revenue fell 40% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE HEAD START receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $891.2M on record — $889.7M federal, $1.5M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$889.7M
- CT$1.3M
- MD$154k
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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE 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 Colorado
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.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Community Development Institute Kansas · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE 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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE HEAD START?
- COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE HEAD START (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being KI BOIS COMMUNITY ACTION FOUNDATION ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE HEAD START have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE HEAD START, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE HEAD START?
- KI BOIS COMMUNITY ACTION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE HEAD START find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 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