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HEAD STARTER NETWORK

EIN 81-3558468 ALEXANDRIA, VA

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Revenue 2023
$0
Expenses 2023
$12,390

Program services were 0.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O12
Classification
1000
Street
1651 PRINCE ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

THE HEADSTARTER NETWORK IS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION CREATED TO PROVIDE A NIMBLE, INTERDISPLINARY, AND FORWARD-LOOKING ENGINE FOR DRIVING INNOVATION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCSTION. WE CONSTANTLY SEEK TO APPLY BEST PRACTICES AND INNOVATIONS FROM TECHNOLOGY, BUSINESS, AND ACADEMIA TO SHAPE NEW MODELS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION.THE HEADSTARTER NETWORK IS BEING BUILT TO FACILITATE COLLABORATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, RESEARCH, PRODUCTS, SERVICES, AND VENTURES BETWEEN NETWORK MEMBERS. NETWORK MEMBERS INCLUDE:- EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION PRACTITIONERS- CORPORATE PARTNERS- TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS- ACADEMIA- VENTURE PHILANTHROPY- FOUNDATIONSTHE HEADSTARTER NETWORK IS A COMMUNITY FOR ANYBODY CURIOUS AND POISED TO EXPLORE AND IMPACT THE FUTURE OF EARLY LEARNING.

Activities or mission (Part I)

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.

  • 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.

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Damon Carson

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Yasmina Vinci

    SECRETARY & EXECUTIVE DIRE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Youlanda Upkins

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Keith Williams

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $12,390
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $96,139
    Expenses
    $96,097
    Contributions
    $28,750
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $36,281
    Expenses
    $63,015
    Assets (EOY)
    $232,000
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,199
    Expenses
    $144,141
    Assets (EOY)
    $0
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $257,500
    Expenses
    $142,984
    Assets (EOY)
    $98,552

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.