Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LUZERNE COUNTY HEAD START INC
LUZERNE COUNTY HEAD START INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,200 to it, the largest being MOSES TAYLOR FOUNDATION INC ($80,973). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $168k
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Luzerne County Head Start Inc does
Mission
As proven leaders in early childhood education and family development, luzerne county head start, inc. Is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for low income children and their families in luzerne and wyoming counties. Our knowledgeable and caring staff accomplish our mission by: providing early care and education for pregnant women and children birth to five, emphasizing healthy outcomes and school readiness promoting family self sufficiency and partnering with individuals, school districts and our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Head start programs deliver comprehensive services to children and families in core areas of learning, health, and family well-being, while engaging parents as partners every step of the way. During the year, the program served 848 three and four-year-old children along with 232 pregnant women and families with children up to three years of age. The goal of the program is to help children develop the skills they will need to succeed in school and to strengthen families in their daily lives. Lchs 2025 enrollment: federal head start preschool 345, pa hssap preschool 272, pa pre-k counts 231, early head start 222, united way ehs 10.
$15,639,358 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,639,358.
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 2022 to 2023, from $6.4M to $5.5M (−15%).
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 98% · 2018 99% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% · 2024 99% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of LUZERNE COUNTY HEAD START INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Elizabeth White
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $15k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $760k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Wyoming Valley). These are real filings, and they are not money LUZERNE COUNTY HEAD START INC raised.
From the IRS filings of LUZERNE 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
LUZERNE COUNTY HEAD START INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% 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 LUZERNE COUNTY HEAD START INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 81% · 2021 76% · 2022 66% · 2023 59% — diversifying over time.
“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 LUZERNE COUNTY HEAD START INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k 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
LUZERNE COUNTY HEAD START INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding LUZERNE COUNTY HEAD START INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $106.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$106.5M
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 LUZERNE 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% 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 LUZERNE 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 LUZERNE COUNTY HEAD START INC?
- LUZERNE COUNTY HEAD START INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,200 to it, the largest being MOSES TAYLOR FOUNDATION INC ($80,973). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUZERNE COUNTY HEAD START INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $168,200 in grants to LUZERNE COUNTY HEAD START INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUZERNE COUNTY HEAD START INC?
- MOSES TAYLOR FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $80,973 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUZERNE COUNTY HEAD START INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing