Community Development Institute Head Start

Analysis

Community Development Institute Head Start is a registered charity in United States, based in Denver, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Community Development Institute Head Start reported income of $44.8m and spending of $44.7m, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $180.1m to $44.8m (-75%), an average of -29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income dropped by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Community Development Institute Head Start sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile, and in the 99th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Posse Foundation Inc ($44.8m), Hampshire College Trustees ($44.8m) and Dillard University ($44.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $19.2m. At year end it held assets of $3.6m against liabilities of $2.1m, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 575 employees.