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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Knox County Head Start Inc does
Mission
Committed to the future of Knox County and its changing and diverse needs, Knox County Head Start works in partnership with the community to provide quality early education, childcare and family services. Our purpose is to engage children, families and staff in reaching their full potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early Head Start is a federally funded, community-based program for low-income families with infants, toddlers and pregnant women. Its mission is to promote healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women, to enhance the development of very young children, and to promote healthy family functioning. Knox County Head Start is funded to serve 64 infants, toddlers and pregnant women and their families in the Early Head Start program at any one time. During the 2024-25 program year, KCHS provided services to 110 infants and toddlers and five pregnant mothers in the 64 funded slots, with 92 infants/toddlers enrolled more than 45-days (ten children transitioned to Head Start within 45-days of enrollment or the start of the program year). Twelve children served were identified with disabilities or developmental delays under an individualized family service plan. At the end of enrollment, 90 of 110 children (82%) were up to date on all required primary and preventive health care and screenings, and 98/101 (97%) were current on immunizations, with 91 fully up to date, 5 having received all immunizations possible; and two (2) exemptions from immunizations. Of those children not up to date, nine…
$3,253,526 spent63% of program spendingThe Child and Adult Care Food program provides support for children's meals for children attending licensed child care centers, including Head Start, Early Head Start and child care classrooms. Knox County Head Start ensures that children participating in all classrooms have access to nutritious meals, including a variety of foods served that introduce children to new food options and offer balanced meals. Meals are served family style to encourage children's healthy development. Children in full day classrooms receive breakfast, lunch and snack. Children served in half day preschool classrooms receive either breakfast and lunch in morning classrooms or lunch and snack in afternoon classrooms. Additionally, KCHS provides information to parents about healthy eating and the importance of exercise and movement as part of both the Head Start and Early Head Start programs.
$189,466 spent4% of program spendingChild Care Program and Corporate Activities. The Child Care program incorporates Head Start Performance Standards into full year/full day care for infants through preschool, with Head Start programming for preschoolers, and Early Head Start programming for infants and toddlers. Child Care services are also provided at one location for school age before and after school care, and full-time school age care during most snow days, school holidays and summer months.
$1,741,541 spent$1,377,182 earned by the program34% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,184,533.
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 $1.7M to $2.2M (+27%).
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
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
Margaret P Tazewell
Executive Director
Board chair
Todd Hawkins
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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.
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· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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
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 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.
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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.
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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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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