Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$28,741,661

Total expenses

$28,678,932

Contributions and grants received

$28,609,791

Grants paid

$6,006

Program service revenue

$41,697

Investment income

$62,907

Other revenue

$27,266

Total assets, end of year

$5,999,792

Total liabilities, end of year

$3,674,776

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$2,325,016

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$25,096,651

Management and general expenses

$3,582,281

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$25,096,651

Program services were 87.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• The JVLCDG grant provided educational services to 317 children during the 2024-2025 school year. The locations included Victoria ISD, Waelder ISD, Yoakum ISD, Nixon-Smiley ISD, Victoria HS and EHS, Cuero EHS, Edna HS, and Port Lavaca EHS. During the 2024-2025 academic year, the EHS CCP grant had a total of 120 children served. The centers that were open were Victoria, Boerne, Edna, Cuero, Port Lavaca, Yoakum under this grant. Partnerships with local libraries were made. Center managers partnered with the libraries in their areas and had a literacy program established where parents could get library cards and join events. The libraries donated backpacks and books to our center locations. Parents were involved with committees, events, and parent meetings at each center. Our Policy Council was established by a parent at every location, and many new ideas were suggested and implemented. Parades in this area are exciting and families participate by creating floats and dressing up. Toys for Tots is a big event, (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)

  Expenses $10,059,629 · Grants $2,407 · Revenue $1,880

• The Innovative Network of Knowledge OPLA grant provided educational services to 475 children during the 2024-25 Year. The locations included Monroe, West Monroe, Sterlington, Richwood, Franklin Parish, Richland and Lincoln parish. The program had 7 EHS childcare partners. The program opened EHS/HS program in Lincoln parish. This has been very exciting for this parish. The program also landed 3 classrooms in the local school system. This partnership has made it a smooth transition for our Head Start students. Parents were involved in the parent committee and policy councils. The program also had local college interns to do speech and language services for the children. The program had a total of 289 volunteers for the year. Parent involvement has increased with the implementation of Ready Rosie.

  Expenses $6,765,577 · Grants $1,619 · Revenue $3,059

• The Alabama grant provided educational services to 80 children during the 2024-2025 school year. These children were Early Head Start ages birth to 3. Alabama served these children in 5 locations in Walker County: Jasper, Cordova, Dora, Curry, Townley. Partnerships with our local Capstone Clinic and Child Dentistry allowed us to provide medical and dental checkups for the children. We were able to form partnerships with our local school districts, Adam Bishop Center, and ARC of Walker County to provide speech, OT, and mental health services to our children and families. We partnered with The City of Lights, a recovery program for females and have been able to serve their children in our program while the mothers are learning a workforce skill. The policy council has been very involved in our program and voted to allow an expansion which added 6 more classrooms for this upcoming year for ages 3-5. Our family specialists provided recruiting activities each month and worked with our education coaches to provide, (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)

  Expenses $4,253,077 · Grants $1,018 · Revenue $36,759

• During the 2024-2025 academic school year, the AKW Grant continued to serve children. Our Early Head Start program enrolled 80 children in our 3 standalone sites and our Head Start program continued serving 134 children through our partnerships with Floresville ISD and Charlotte ISD. We wanted to make sure our families continued to feel involved in their child's education by providing monthly parent meetings followed by family engagement activities. During the family engagement activities, families are invited to come to the center and join their child for a creative activity. During this time, families can see what the children have been learning about in the classroom as well. This year AKW added a by-monthly Father Engagement classroom activity to have more father and/or father figures involved in the children's education. AKW also added the Let's Read Together take-home activities to enhance reading at home with a family member. Parents also continued to volunteer and attend Policy Council meetings via zoom. Teachers continue to send home educational activities daily; this gives parents the opportunity to spend some time with their child at home extending on what they are learning at school. This school year we had 214 parent volunteers. AKW grant continues to implement the parent curriculum called Ready Rosie. Ready Rosie delivers parenting curriculum videos via text. The City of Poteet continued to provide volunteers services each month by mowing the yard, paying for water and trash services. The City of Poteet included in their yearly donations the opportunity to house AKW's mains office, training room and storage shed while donating the rental cost, water and trash services. Our stand-alone sites continue working with the local community partnerships to provide resources and referrals to our families on as needed basis.

  Expenses $4,018,368 · Grants $962

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• BRECKENRIDGE VILLAGE

  501(c)(3) · ADULT CARE SERVICES · TX · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by Firstday

• NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND RESPONSE

  501(c)(3) · All Hazards Emergency Management · TX · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by Firstday

• BCFS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

  501(c)(3) · Community Based Care for at risk families and children · TX · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by Firstday

• CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY RELIEF INTERNATIONAL

  501(c)(3) · CHILD BASED SERVICES · TX · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by Firstday

• COMPASS UNITED

  501(c)(3) · Services for community's most vulnerable children and their caregivers · TX · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by Firstday

• SILVER CLIFF RANCH

  501(c)(3) · Camp for Youth and Families · TX · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by Firstday

• COMPASS CONNECTIONS

  501(c)(3) · Services for community's most vulnerable children and their caregivers · TX · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by Firstday

• EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND REPONSE

  501(c)(3) · All Hazards Emergency Management · TX · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by Firstday

• FIRSTDAY FOUNDATION

  501(c)(3) · ADMIN FOR NFP · TX

  Directly controlled by NA

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

22 April 2026

IRS schema version

2024v5.1

Source object

202641129349300324

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