Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HEAD START ASSOCIATION
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HEAD START ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $28,511 to it, the largest being LENA FOUNDATION ($28,511). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $161k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $37k
What District of Columbia Head Start Association does
Mission
Provide unified leadership, education, and support for all head start programs within the district of columbia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provide support to all head start programs within dc by promoting the exchange of knowledge and experiences; providing advice, technical assistance and training; and gathering and disseminating information useful to head start programs.
$82,857 spentof which $1,118 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $82,857.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $1k to $149k (+13829%).
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.
77% of DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HEAD START ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HEAD START ASSOCIATION’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
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HEAD START ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HEAD START ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HEAD START ASSOCIATION
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
33%
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 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HEAD START ASSOCIATION: 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 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HEAD START ASSOCIATION?
- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HEAD START ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $28,511 to it, the largest being LENA FOUNDATION ($28,511). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HEAD START ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $28,511 in grants to DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HEAD START ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HEAD START ASSOCIATION?
- LENA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $28,511 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HEAD START ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2021–2025), 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