Missouri Head Start Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431935220
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Jefferson City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 5736657007
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $103,767
- Expenses
- $93,500
- Assets
- $69,188
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TAMMIE BENTON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LOLETTA COMBS (TREASURER)
- PAM LAFRENZ (SECRETARY)
- TERRI FOSSETT (BOARD MEMBER)
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. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The primary exempt purpose of the Missouri head start association is to coalesce, inspire, and support the head start field as a leader in early childhood development and education.
What it reported doing in 2024
Mhsa works to establish collaborative partnerships with other similar organizations and groups by: - head start directors & partners discussions: partnering with the other state and regional partners, mhsa works to help identify areas of need and opportunities for collaboration for head start programs in serving the needs of programs working with families towards their children's school readiness goals in the context of a community. Regular and consistent opportunities for discussions were hosted focused with head start program directors and state/regional partners. - mhsa representation: mhsa serves as a representative for the head start community on several mo and regional boards and councils, including: the region vii head start association board of directors, mo head start advisory committee, and the Missouri community action network. These collaborative partnerships are a particularly important opportunity to allow local program's needs to be heard on a larger platform and to effectively strategize together on ways to support programs, and partners to better serve children in Missouri and the region. - partnering with state organizations: during the 2024 year, mhsa established several learning initiatives and collaborative efforts with state organizations like the state collaboration office and healthy blue mo to support head start staff and family leaders regarding healthy practices and teachings to demonstrate best practices to be used in classroom and home-visitation settings. - mhsa serves as a member of the central team and the facilitator for the head start echo that is hosted by mu telehealth network.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.5%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 81.6%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 73%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.5% of revenue deployed · 81.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.