Illinois · Nonprofit
Healthy Start
Healthy Start (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being BABY2BABY ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $778k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $-12110
What Healthy Start does
Mission
Healthy Start is a Sponsoring Organization for the Child and Adult Care Food Program of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, administered by the Illinois State Board of Education in Illinois. Healthy Start passes Federal funds to eligible child care centers for cash reimbursement for meals served.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Passed through Federal Funds for meal reimbursement to 100 child daycare centers.
$791,817 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $791,817.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $373k to $1.0M (+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: 2020 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Healthy Start’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Carol A Hemphill
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Against its field
Healthy Start's revenue grew 26% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Healthy 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Healthy 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 Healthy Start?
- Healthy Start (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being BABY2BABY ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Healthy Start have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to Healthy Start.
- Who is the largest funder of Healthy Start?
- BABY2BABY is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Healthy Start find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2020–2025), 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