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KNOX COUNTY HEAD START INC

EIN 31-0724689 MOUNT VERNON, OH

Revenue 2024
$5,794,799
Expenses 2024
$5,810,152

Program services were 89.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B22Z
Classification
1000
Street
11700 UPPER GILCHRIST RD STE B

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 · 2024

Mission

Committed to the future of Knox County and its changing and diverse needs, Knox County Head Start works in partnership with the community to provide quality early education, childcare and family services. Our purpose is to engage children, families and staff in reaching their full potential.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Early care and education, including comprehensive Head Start and Early Head Start, childcare, parenting education and family engagement services.

  • Early Head Start is a federally funded, community-based program for low-income families with infants, toddlers and pregnant women. Its mission is to promote healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women, to enhance the development of very young children, and to promote healthy family functioning. Knox County Head Start is funded to serve 64 infants, toddlers and pregnant women and their families in the Early Head Start program at any one time. During the 2024-25 program year, KCHS provided services to 110 infants and toddlers and five pregnant mothers in the 64 funded slots, with 92 infants/toddlers enrolled more than 45-days (ten children transitioned to Head Start within 45-days of enrollment or the start of the program year). Twelve children served were identified with disabilities or developmental delays under an individualized family service plan. At the end of enrollment, 90 of 110 children (82%) were up to date on all required primary and preventive health care and screenings, and 98/101 (97%) were current on immunizations, with 91 fully up to date, 5 having received all immunizations possible; and two (2) exemptions from immunizations. Of those children not up to date, nine of the children were enrolled less than 45 days. KCHS provided center-based slots, in full day, full year centers in Fredericktown, Gambier and Mount Vernon, Ohio, with full-day care provided from ten to eleven hours per day, five days per week, 50 weeks per year. Head Start is a federally funded, comprehensive developmental preschool program for income eligible children ages three to five and their families. Knox County Head Start, Inc. receives grants from the Federal Department of Health and Human Services for the operation of the program. In the 2024-2025 School Year, Knox County Head Start served 198 children in 149 funded Head Start slots; 83 of those children transitioned to kindergarten in August 2025. All enrolled children made developmental progress, with the percentage of preschool children achieving widely held developmental expectations by area: Social-Emotional (90%); Physical (98%); Language (85%); Cognitive (92%), Literacy (89%) and Math (81%). Thirty-four (34) children served received special education and related services under an Individualized Education Plan (IEP). Children received screenings for health issues, including physicals, lead and hemoglobin screenings, speech, hearing and developmental screenings, dental screenings, and mental health screenings. Seventy-three (73) children, or 40% of children served, required follow up medical care, and 63, or 86%, of those children received the follow up care needed. Twenty-two (22) children, or 11% of children served, required follow up dental care, and 18 of those children received the care needed, for a follow up rate of 82%.

    Expenses $3,253,526

  • The Child and Adult Care Food program provides support for children's meals for children attending licensed child care centers, including Head Start, Early Head Start and child care classrooms. Knox County Head Start ensures that children participating in all classrooms have access to nutritious meals, including a variety of foods served that introduce children to new food options and offer balanced meals. Meals are served family style to encourage children's healthy development. Children in full day classrooms receive breakfast, lunch and snack. Children served in half day preschool classrooms receive either breakfast and lunch in morning classrooms or lunch and snack in afternoon classrooms. Additionally, KCHS provides information to parents about healthy eating and the importance of exercise and movement as part of both the Head Start and Early Head Start programs.

    Expenses $189,466

  • Child Care Program and Corporate Activities. The Child Care program incorporates Head Start Performance Standards into full year/full day care for infants through preschool, with Head Start programming for preschoolers, and Early Head Start programming for infants and toddlers. Child Care services are also provided at one location for school age before and after school care, and full-time school age care during most snow days, school holidays and summer months.

    Expenses $1,741,541 · Revenue $1,377,182

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Lisa Lloyd

    Vice-Chairperson

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Todd Hawkins

    Chairperson

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Beverly Stockberger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Daniel Alden

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Debbie Ruggles

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Katherine Clark

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kelly Welker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sam Filkins

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tina Cockrell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Margaret P Tazewell

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $123,900
    From this org
    $118,332
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,568
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,794,799
    Expenses
    $5,810,152
    Contributions
    $4,396,809
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,843,545
    Expenses
    $5,727,909
    Contributions
    $4,474,046
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,116,286
    Expenses
    $5,934,555
    Contributions
    $4,892,410
    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
    $5,097,073
    Expenses
    $5,116,446
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,995,627

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,990,133
    Expenses
    $4,690,800
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,164,613

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,646,824
    Expenses
    $4,626,470
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,704,145

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.