Virginia · Nonprofit
HEADSTARTER NETWORK
HEADSTARTER NETWORK (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being GARY PHILANTHROPY ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $114k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $-24751
What Headstarter Network does
Mission
The Headstarter Network is a nonprofit organization created to provide a nimble, interdisciplinary, and forward-looking engine for driving innovation in early childhood development and education. We constantly seek to apply best practices and innovations from technology, business, and academia to shape new models of early childhood education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Headstarter Network serves as a forum for knowledge exchange among early childhood development and education practitioners as well as with other industries and sectors. We are keen to take the best practices and innovations of other disciplines, especially the disruptive potential of exponential technologies, and combine them with the latest scientific insights on early learning.in the spirit of head start's beginning as a cross-sector collanpration, the Headstarter Network is committed to advancing the field of early childhood development and education through interdisciplinary thinking and disruptive innovation. Our goal is to facilitate collaborations, experiments, research, products, services, and ventures between network members - practitioners, corporate partners, academia, venture philanthropy, and foundations.the Headstarter Network is a community for anybody curious and poised to explore and impact the future of early learning.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $232k to $253k (+9%).
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.
13% of HEADSTARTER NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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.
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 HEADSTARTER NETWORK’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
HEADSTARTER NETWORK draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, 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
HEADSTARTER NETWORK's revenue fell 56% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HEADSTARTER NETWORK
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
95%
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 HEADSTARTER NETWORK: 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 HEADSTARTER NETWORK?
- HEADSTARTER NETWORK (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being GARY PHILANTHROPY ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEADSTARTER NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,500 in grants to HEADSTARTER NETWORK.
- Who is the largest funder of HEADSTARTER NETWORK?
- GARY PHILANTHROPY is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEADSTARTER NETWORK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2019–2025), 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