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LI Child and Family Development SERVICES INC

LI Child and Family Development SERVICES INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,500 to it, the largest being FLAGSTAR FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$26M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$43k
Net assets
$7.5M
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What LI Child and Family Development SERVICES INC does

Mission

L. I. Child and Family Development Services, Inc., dba Long Island Head Start (the "Agency") is a private, non-profit corporation, which administers publicly funded early childhood education and development programs in Suffolk County, New York. The Agency's principal activity involves the Head Start Program, an early childhood education and development program funded by the United States Department of Health and Human Services ("DHHS"). In fiscal year 2024-2025, the Agency operated eighteen (18) Head Start (HS) centers, serving 1,092 four-to-five year old children and their families. The Agency also operated Early Head Start (EHS) programs in three (3) centers serving 148 families with infants and toddlers from birth to age three, including (20) twenty pregnant women.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. US DEPT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES -- HEAD START PROGRAMThe Agency's operations are almost entirely dependent upon government grants The objectives of the Agency are to develop a greater degree of competence in children, improving their everyday effectiveness in dealing with their present environment as well as later responsibilities in school and life. The Agencys programs encompass the following:Education - The children receive a variety of learning experiences to foster intellectual, social and emotional growth. Children participate in indoor and outdoor play, and are introduced to words, colors and numbers.Health - The Agency promotes a comprehensive health care program medical, dental and mental illness.Nutrition Children are served one or more hot meals and snacks each day containing at least one-third of the daily nutritional requirement. This program is part of the Child and Adult Care Food Program ("CACFP") which is administered by the New York State Department of Health ("NYS DOH").Family and Community Partnerships- Where needed, the Agencys staff refers families to local health and human services agencies to help them to obtain the services they require.Services to…

    $22,151,700 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. UPK, CACFP and other programs to support young children

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,151,700.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($20M) Expenses 100 ($20M) Net assets 100 ($6.1M)2018 Revenue 101 ($20M) Expenses 102 ($20M) Net assets 95 ($5.8M)2019 Revenue 103 ($20M) Expenses 104 ($21M) Net assets 90 ($5.5M)2020 Revenue 115 ($23M) Expenses 108 ($22M) Net assets 112 ($6.8M)2021 Revenue 105 ($21M) Expenses 106 ($21M) Net assets 106 ($6.4M)2022 Revenue 122 ($24M) Expenses 121 ($24M) Net assets 106 ($6.4M)2023 Revenue 139 ($28M) Expenses 137 ($27M) Net assets 107 ($6.5M)2024 Revenue 139 ($28M) Expenses 134 ($27M) Net assets 121 ($7.3M)2025 Revenue 130 ($26M) Expenses 128 ($26M) Net assets 124 ($7.5M)
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Revenue (130)Expenses (128)Net assets (124)

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 $11M to $8.7M (−22%).

$9.8M
$9.5M
$9.0M
$11M
$8.7M
$9.8M
$10M
$10M
$11M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% · 2024 98% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$143k
’17
−$270k
’18
−$344k
’19
$1.3M
’20
−$349k
’21
$3k
’22
$47k
’23
$857k
’24
$211k
’25
0.8
months of
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.

Board chair

Terrence D Goode

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+1+5+0+2+4+4+2+2
No longer listed·231101122
03Who funds it

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 LI Child and Family Development SERVICES 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

LI Child and Family Development SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

53% 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 LI Child and Family Development SERVICES INC.

47%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

“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

53% of LI Child and Family Development SERVICES INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

MI
NY

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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding LI Child and Family Development SERVICES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $195.7M on record.

Federal$195.7M
grants $195.7Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$195.7M

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.

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In New York

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds LI Child and Family Development SERVICES INC?
LI Child and Family Development SERVICES INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,500 to it, the largest being FLAGSTAR FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LI Child and Family Development SERVICES INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $42,500 in grants to LI Child and Family Development SERVICES INC.
Who is the largest funder of LI Child and Family Development SERVICES INC?
FLAGSTAR FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LI Child and Family Development SERVICES 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 3 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