Ohio · Nonprofit
Knox County Head Start Inc
Knox County Head Start Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,593,193 to it, the largest being OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION ($1,305,326). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Knox County 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· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inclocal
- California Child Care Resource and Referral Networkportfolio match
- Child Care Aware of Americaportfolio match
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.
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 71% · 2021 67% · 2022 74% · 2023 76% · 2024 72% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of Knox County Head Start Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $344k → $862k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Knox County 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
Knox County Head Start Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 Knox County Head Start Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 47% · 2019 51% · 2020 62% · 2021 44% · 2022 53% · 2023 81% — growing more concentrated.
“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 Knox County Head Start Inc's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $153k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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. Your 6 funders put you typical among the 235 organizations that share them.
- Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation InclocalOH · funds 26 organizations near you
- California Child Care Resource and Referral Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Child Care Aware of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lena Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northwest Institute of Researchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Start Earlyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Healthy Child Care Coloradoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Early Years Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Building Bright Futures State Advisory Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Early Childhood Resource Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kentucky Council on Child Abuse D/B/A Prevent Child Abuse Kentuckyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard & Arline Landers FoundationlocalOH · funds 14 organizations near you
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.
Government funding Knox County Head Start Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $34.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$34.2M
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 Knox County Head Start Inc
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Knox County 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.
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 Knox County Head Start Inc?
- Knox County Head Start Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,593,193 to it, the largest being OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION ($1,305,326). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Knox County Head Start Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $3,593,193 in grants to Knox County Head Start Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Knox County Head Start Inc?
- OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,305,326 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Knox County Head Start Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 6funders 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