Illinois · Nonprofit
ILLINOIS HEAD START ASSOCIATION
ILLINOIS HEAD START ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 0 organizations whose IRS filings report $0 to it. 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ILLINOIS HEAD START ASSOCIATION's revenue grew 33% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,749 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Mental Health Resource League for McHenry County Incportfolio match
- United Way of McLean Countyportfolio match
- North Shore Exchange Nfpportfolio match
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.
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 25% · 2018 21% · 2019 22% · 2020 57% · 2021 50% · 2022 30% · 2023 12% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of ILLINOIS HEAD START ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Mental Health Resource League for McHenry County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of McLean Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Shore Exchange Nfpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Central Illinois Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Horizons Unlimited Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bright Promises Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Northwest Illinois Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Community Foundation for McHenry Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fox Valley United Wayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Exchange Club Charitable Organizationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Pelino Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The a Montgomery Ward Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ILLINOIS HEAD START ASSOCIATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 ILLINOIS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ILLINOIS HEAD START ASSOCIATION?
- ILLINOIS HEAD START ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 0 organizations whose IRS filings report $0 to it. 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ILLINOIS HEAD START ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 0 organizations giving $0 in grants to ILLINOIS HEAD START ASSOCIATION.
- How can an organization like ILLINOIS HEAD START ASSOCIATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 0funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing