Montana · Nonprofit
KOOTENAI VALLEY HEAD START INC
KOOTENAI VALLEY HEAD START INC (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being HEADWATERS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MONTANA ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $489k
What Kootenai Valley Head Start Inc does
Mission
To be a positive influence for change by providing a supportive and safe learning environment for children and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide a head start program in libby and troy, montana
$1,222,382 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,222,382.
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 2019 to 2020, from $343k to $493k (+44%).
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 95% · 2018 94% · 2019 96% · 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 79% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of KOOTENAI VALLEY 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. 3 of the last 9 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
Chelsea Franke
Executive director
Board chair
Mike Califf
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of KOOTENAI VALLEY 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.
Where its funders are
100% of KOOTENAI VALLEY HEAD START INC's grant income comes from Montana funders.
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
KOOTENAI VALLEY HEAD START INC receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding KOOTENAI VALLEY HEAD START INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$8.9M
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 KOOTENAI VALLEY 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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KOOTENAI VALLEY 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 KOOTENAI VALLEY HEAD START INC?
- KOOTENAI VALLEY HEAD START INC (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being HEADWATERS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MONTANA ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KOOTENAI VALLEY HEAD START INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to KOOTENAI VALLEY HEAD START INC.
- Who is the largest funder of KOOTENAI VALLEY HEAD START INC?
- HEADWATERS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MONTANA is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KOOTENAI VALLEY HEAD START INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 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