New York · Nonprofit
HOLY CROSS HEAD START INC
HOLY CROSS HEAD START INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,036,082 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ($2,015,047). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.3M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $-647965
What Holy Cross Head Start Inc does
Mission
To provide comprehensive educational opportunities for eligible families and their children birth to five in collaboration with community partnerships in a safe, diverse environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Head start, universal pre-k and even start programs - provide education and childhood to approximately 500 students within the surrounding community
$6,789,470 spent$11,875 earned by the program95% of program spendingNew york state department of health - division of nutrition child and adult care food program to eligible children who participate in the head start program
$365,518 spent5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,154,988.
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 2022 to 2023, from $886k to $2.3M (+154%).
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 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HOLY CROSS HEAD START INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Cortland Purks
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $4k.
From the IRS filings of HOLY CROSS HEAD START 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
HOLY CROSS HEAD START INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 HOLY CROSS HEAD START INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of HOLY CROSS HEAD START INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
HOLY CROSS HEAD START INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HOLY CROSS HEAD START INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $32.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$32.9M
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 HOLY CROSS HEAD START 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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% 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 HOLY CROSS HEAD START 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 HOLY CROSS HEAD START INC?
- HOLY CROSS HEAD START INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,036,082 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ($2,015,047). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOLY CROSS HEAD START INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,036,082 in grants to HOLY CROSS HEAD START INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOLY CROSS HEAD START INC?
- COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,015,047 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOLY CROSS HEAD START INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2 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