Headstarter Network

Overview

Mission

The headstarter network is a nonprofit organization created to provide a nimble, interdisciplinary, and forward-looking engine for driving innovation in early childhood development and education. We constantly seek to apply best practices and innovations from technology, business, and academia to shape new models of early childhood education.

What it reported doing in 2024

The headstarter network serves as a forum for knowledge exchange among early childhood development and education practitioners as well as with other industries and sectors. We are keen to take the best practices and innovations of other disciplines, especially the disruptive potential of exponential technologies, and combine them with the latest scientific insights on early learning.in the spirit of head start's beginning as a cross-sector collanpration, the headstarter network is committed to advancing the field of early childhood development and education through interdisciplinary thinking and disruptive innovation. Our goal is to facilitate collaborations, experiments, research, products, services, and ventures between network members - practitioners, corporate partners, academia, venture philanthropy, and foundations.the headstarter network is a community for anybody curious and poised to explore and impact the future of early learning.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 87% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
813558468
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Phone
7037390875
Rating
36
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$113,525
Expenses
$119,214
Assets
$232,000
Liabilities
$256,751

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -5%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.95; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.11; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -25.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

People named in this filing

  • CHUCK MILLS (PRESIDENT)
  • YASMINA VINCI (SECRETARY & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • YICHEN FENG (TREASURER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024.