New Jersey · Nonprofit
HEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY INC
HEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,525 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ($57,250). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $147k
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Head Start Community Program of Morris County Inc does
Mission
Head start community program of morris county partners with families to provide comprehensive support for child development and school readiness, from prenatal to kindergarten ages, for the community's most vulnerable children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The head start preschool program provides full-day, high-quality early education for 3- and 4-year-olds, with local school district partnerships and comprehensive services for vulnerable children and families at two morris county locations. Children and their families receive an array of services and referrals, including health and wellness, nutrition, dental, mental health, parent education, home literacy and visitation programs. Free services were provided for 207 children, 98% of whom were multi-language learners; most of the families served speak spanish at home. The program is a grow-nj-kids 5-star-rated program.
$4,759,380 spent$2,037,988 earned by the program75% of program spendingThe early head start program provides full-day, center-based care and education services to children ages 18-months to 3 years of age. Expectant mothers and parents of infants participate in a home-based program, receiving culturally responsive services and resources from bilingual home educators to support parent education and optimal child development. Free services were provided for 117 children and their families, 98% of whom were multi-language learners, speaking spanish in the home. Through the early head start program, 100% of children served had an ongoing source of continuous, accessible health care and were on schedule with childhood vaccinations. 100% of early head start teachers carry a child development associate (cda) credential.
$1,556,426 spent25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,315,806.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.7M to $7.1M (+92%).
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 89% · 2018 89% · 2019 83% · 2020 74% · 2021 71% · 2022 69% · 2023 75% · 2024 75% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of HEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% 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
Susan Odonnell
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $18k → $12k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 HEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY 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
HEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 HEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 99% · 2022 91% · 2023 86% — 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
29% of HEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
57% of HEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $63k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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
HEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding HEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $42.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$42.4M
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 HEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 HEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY 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 HEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY INC?
- HEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,525 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ($57,250). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $146,525 in grants to HEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY INC?
- UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC is the largest funder on record, with $57,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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