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CALIFORNIA HEAD START ASSOCIATION

EIN 77-0412315 CITRUS HTS, CA

Revenue 2023
$1,466,282
Expenses 2023
$1,291,454

Program services were 76.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P33
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 268

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).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

We are the premier advocacy organization for Head Start agencies throughoutCalifornia. We advocate for our members at the federal, state and local county levelensuring that members speak with a unified voice about the challenges facingCalifornia's most vulnerable families, and the Head Start community that servesthem. By communicating with members, and creating opportunities for learning andconnecting, members are increasingly engaged, unified and supported as they work tobetter serve their clients and communities.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To be the unified voice providing leadership and advocacy for the head start community.

  • Held conferences including education conference, Health Institute, Leadership and Wellness Symposium and Manager's and Director's Institute, and Advocacy Day. Through collaboration with corporate partners, we provided data training for members and Family and Workforce Wellness programs.

    Expenses $730,753 · Revenue $953,605

  • Head Start California engages with other Early Childhood Education advocates andassociations to coordinate budgetary and policy change initiatives, and communicateswith elected legislators and state budget, education, and social service offices toensure they are aware of the value of the Federal investment that Head Start bringsto California as part of the ECE mixed delivery system in California. We advocatefor Head Start programs at both the federal and state levels.

    Expenses $118,877 · Revenue $106,845

  • We support our 124 Head Start member agencies through services that include our jobposting site and bi-annual Compensation and Benefits Study. We also provide members with information via our website and communications, as well as help connect members with each other by supporting regional meetings.

    Expenses $89,865 · Revenue $308,500

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.

  • Melanee Cottrill

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $68,738
    From this org
    $68,710
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jodie Keller

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Laurel Parker

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Yolanda Gonzales

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tony Jordan

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Stacey Scarborough

    Past President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Juan Cisneros

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Luis Bautista

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Betty Zamorano-Pedregon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ricardo Rivera

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Suzanne Godinez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Angel Barrios

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sonia Jaramillo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marissa Duran

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Adriana Ramirez-Barron

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Miriam McNamara

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Heather Aulabaugh

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brenda Poteete

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jenny Pettit

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michelle Dove

    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
    $1,466,282
    Expenses
    $1,291,454
    Contributions
    $62,273
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,012,418
    Expenses
    $1,043,183
    Contributions
    $67,574
    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
    $1,223,964
    Expenses
    $997,680
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,598,602

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,453,384
    Expenses
    $973,417
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,583,829

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,413,385
    Expenses
    $1,212,414
    Assets (EOY)
    $950,454

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,195,388
    Expenses
    $1,158,739
    Assets (EOY)
    $811,981

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,297,743
    Expenses
    $1,090,660
    Assets (EOY)
    $831,365

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $900,943
    Assets (EOY)
    $429,667

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $824,220
    Assets (EOY)
    $409,541

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

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.