Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WOOD COUNTY HEAD START INC
WOOD COUNTY HEAD START INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being EATON CHARITABLE FUND ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $500
- Net assets
- $28k
What Wood County Head Start Inc does
Mission
Wood county head start provides head start services to children and families, recognizing and respecting cultural and individual diversity.head start supports/promotes children and family growth and empowerment through education, parent involvement, and health awareness, integrating community resources.teaching children that learning can be fun and helping them feel good about themselves are key ingredients of the head start program. Children are given opportunities to learn and grow at their own pace.our educational program emphasizes preparing children to be successful in their school careers as well as successful in life. We are a family-centered program which follows the principle that children develop in the context of their family. Therefore, we make every effort to support families and encourage parents to be involved in their children's education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Wood county head start provided comprehensive child development services to low-income infants, toddlers, and preschool children and their families during the year. Head start provided families with educational services for their children and also addressed important issues such as nutrition, medical and dental services, mental health, social and emotional development, and promoted parent involvement. Children learned the skills they need to be successful in school and in life. The dedicated staff at wood county head start provided services to diverse groups of children and families, including children with special health care needs and disabilities. Wood county head start has been guided and governed by directors that represent varied interests in wood county.
$4,225,970 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,225,970.
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 2017 to 2018, from $169k to $669k (+296%).
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 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% · 2024 100% · 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. 0 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
John Martin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 WOOD 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.
Where its funders are
WOOD COUNTY HEAD START INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 1 state in all.
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.
Government funding WOOD COUNTY HEAD START INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $38.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$38.6M
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 WOOD COUNTY HEAD START INC
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In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOOD 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 WOOD COUNTY HEAD START INC?
- WOOD COUNTY HEAD START INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being EATON CHARITABLE FUND ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOOD COUNTY HEAD START INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to WOOD COUNTY HEAD START INC.
- Who is the largest funder of WOOD COUNTY HEAD START INC?
- EATON CHARITABLE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOOD COUNTY HEAD START INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 1 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