California · Nonprofit
REGION IX HEAD START ASSOCIATION
REGION IX HEAD START ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,534 to it, the largest being OneAmerica Foundation Inc ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $117k
- Net assets
- $757k
What Region IX Head Start Association does
Mission
Region 9 head start association is passionate about the possibility of giving all families and children from birth to 5 an opportunity to succeed in school and in life. This is our purpose. The head start community is our inspiration, and we wish to foster inclusivity, kindness, knowledge, leadership, courage, and innovation. It is our duty to elevate the head start community by offering insightful, innovative, and pertinent programs and services via our conferences, networks, events, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Regional 9 head start association conducts the following professional development and educational conferences: > conference to expand head start and early head start professionals to work with young children in areas of science, technology, engineering and math. > conference to address how head start and early head start professionals can increase intentional and meaningful family engagement that reaches accross divers cultures. > conference to support early head start professional working with children and families to increase effective parental relationships, healthy children and caregiver routines in local programs. > conference to support the leadership development knowledge and strategies of all staff working to advance service to at-risk populations in local communities.
$1,195,860 spentof which $53,000 as grants$1,250,534 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,195,860.
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.
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 $401k to $745k (+86%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
William Donaldson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $32k.
From the IRS filings of REGION IX HEAD START ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 funders by total. 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
REGION IX HEAD START ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 REGION IX HEAD START ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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
REGION IX HEAD START ASSOCIATION draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like REGION IX HEAD START ASSOCIATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 REGION IX HEAD START ASSOCIATION: 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 REGION IX HEAD START ASSOCIATION?
- REGION IX HEAD START ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,534 to it, the largest being OneAmerica Foundation Inc ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REGION IX HEAD START ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $116,534 in grants to REGION IX HEAD START ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REGION IX HEAD START ASSOCIATION?
- OneAmerica Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REGION IX HEAD START ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 7 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