Utah · Nonprofit
Mountainland Head Start
Mountainland Head Start (Utah) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,183 to it, the largest being MARC C AND DEBORAH H BINGHAM FOUNDATION ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $28k
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Mountainland Head Start does
Mission
Empowering young children and families along a path to their highest potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Head Start - We offer a high-quality kindergarten readiness pre-school program to 575 low-income children in Wasatch, Juab and Utah counties in the state of Utah. We provide Early Head Start Services to 12 pregnant women and children birth to age three in Juab county who are low-income or have a disability. We partner with parents to assist children develop the skills and knowledge necessary to be successful in school. We provide quality early education to all children enrolled as well as comprehensive child and family development services. Our comprehensive program and services support children's learning and development for future success in school. This program is funded by a federal Head Start grant.
$10,354,876 spent95% of program spendingTraining and Professional Development - The purpose of early childhood training and professional development is to prepare and continuously support staff to work with and on behalf of young children and their families. Professional development provides opportunities to stay abreast the latest reserach and best practices to improve staff knowledge, skills, practice, and service delivery.
$81,469 spent1% of program spendingUSDA Child Care Food Program - Mealtime at Head Start is an extension of the classroom wherein children learn gross and fine motor skills, table manners, social skills, and many other self-help skills to prepare them for school. Each day, children are offered a nourishing meal and snack that is prepared and served on-site. Menus and recipes are created by a registered dietitian and follow the Child and Adult Care Food Program meal pattern. Meals served at Head Start are planned to be colorful, delicious, and nutritious in order to foster the appropriate growth and development of the children. The menu offers a variety of fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables, lean meats and dairy, and whole grain breads.
$501,033 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,937,378.
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 $4.8M to $6.0M (+24%).
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 97% · 2019 97% · 2020 94% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 96% · 2024 96% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Mountainland Head Start’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. 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
Sonia Pineda
Exec. Dir.
Board chair
Chris Hansen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $285 → $1k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Mountainland Head Start’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
Mountainland Head Start leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 87% · 2023 51% — 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 Mountainland Head Start's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Mountainland Head Start's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Mountainland Head Start receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $86.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$86.1M
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 Mountainland Head Start
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mountainland Head Start: 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 Mountainland Head Start?
- Mountainland Head Start (Utah) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,183 to it, the largest being MARC C AND DEBORAH H BINGHAM FOUNDATION ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mountainland Head Start have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $28,183 in grants to Mountainland Head Start, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mountainland Head Start?
- MARC C AND DEBORAH H BINGHAM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mountainland Head Start find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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