Montana · Nonprofit
YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START
YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START (Montana) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $392,098 to it, the largest being OP & WE EDWARDS FOUNDATION INC ($150,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $392k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Young Families Early Head Start does
Mission
The mission of Young Families Early Head Start, inc. Is to assist and support low-income, primarily teen, parents and prenatal parents in pursuit of their educational goals and the development of their parenting skills, while providing comprehensive quality child care for their infants and toddlers, birth to age three.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Young families is an early head start program that serves primarily teen and low-income families with children birth to three years of age, pregnant women, and infants and toddlers, including children with disabilities, whose parents are teenagers completing their high school education, as well as parents obtaining post-secondary education/training in college or technical schools, and working parents. Intensive services to infants, toddlers, and their families in a comprehensive two-generation program include services that begin before the child is born concentrating on enhancing the child's development and supporting the family during the critical first three years of the child's life. The teen parent program allows parents to earn high school credit for attending on-site child and parent development classes that include prenatal information, human growth and development, parent education, healthy relationships, and life skills taught by certified billings school district #2 instructors. In addition, the organization is licensed by the state of montana as a child daycare center in order to provide child care to teen parents while attending their designated high school earning the…
$797,680 spent$284,281 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $797,680.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.2M (+16%).
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 70% · 2018 64% · 2019 52% · 2020 51% · 2021 58% · 2022 71% · 2023 65% · 2024 65% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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.
Board chair
Ana Haynes
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $35k → $57k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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
YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% 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 YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 34% · 2019 86% · 2020 69% · 2021 72% · 2022 54% · 2023 79% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
100% of YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $126k 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
YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.8M
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 YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY 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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START?
- YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START (Montana) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $392,098 to it, the largest being OP & WE EDWARDS FOUNDATION INC ($150,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $392,098 in grants to YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START?
- OP & WE EDWARDS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 12 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