Illinois · Nonprofit
RIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES INC
RIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,277,210 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($732,489). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Riverbend Head Start & Family Services Inc does
Mission
The agency operates programs to provide families with an on-going support system to enhance growth and development. The agency also provides programs for child development by offering services to help children, who may be at risk for future school failure, to be better prepared to enter the school systems.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The pre-k program provides funds for early childhood and family education programs and services that will help children enter school ready to learn.
$1,371,333 spentof which $4,662 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,371,333.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.1M to $2.6M (+23%).
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 47% · 2018 83% · 2019 77% · 2020 83% · 2021 79% · 2022 82% · 2023 88% · 2024 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of RIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $108k → $158k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 RIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY 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
RIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 RIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 81% · 2019 76% · 2020 52% · 2021 72% · 2022 57% · 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.
How long its funders stay
100% of RIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
RIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES INC draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $178k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
RIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like RIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Riverbend Head Start Delegate Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES 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 RIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES INC?
- RIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,277,210 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($732,489). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,277,210 in grants to RIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $732,489 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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