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Top 25 Head start programs based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 1,923 head start programs headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 34,232 professional contacts across them, including 6,037 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers head start programs headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest head start programs based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,102 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Child Care Services Association (CCSA) is now Early Years!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,440 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than five decades, Childtime has been a guiding light in the child care and early education field.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 803 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Child Care Resource Center (CCRC) assists close to parents, children, and child care providers each month in Northern Los Angeles County and the entirety of San Bernardino County…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 648 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Children of America (COA): It’s A Special Recipe of People, Principles And Pride.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 641 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gymboree Play & Music has been fostering creativity and confidence in children ages 0-5 for over 45 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 606 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Brightside Academy proudly offers quality education and child care to children from all families and socio-economic backgrounds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 565 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1966, ECS4Kids (Episcopal Children's Services) is a Non-Profit organization with strong entrepreneurial spirit that uses research and the best practices to help…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 519 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Southwest Human Development is Arizona’s largest nonprofit dedicated to early childhood development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 494 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Illinois Action for Children is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization dedicated to quality, accessible early learning and care opportunities for children.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 457 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “One of the oldest and most respected early childhood education agencies in the nation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 410 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Yeled V’Yalda is a dynamic not-for-profit social service agency whose mission is to serve the whole child and the family.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 396 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Our Purpose Head Start provides comprehensive services for young children and their families to achieve school readiness and lifelong success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 390 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kidango’s commitment is to ensure all children have access to the best opportunities for growth, focused on education and health.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 308 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sheltering Arms Early Education & Family Centers is one of Atlanta’s largest, and most respected nonprofits, providing nationally-acclaimed, effective early education and child…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 274 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Options for Learning has been serving children and families since 1981.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 258 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Nest Schools operates premium early childhood education across multiple states for infants through school-age children.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 246 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Stepping Stone School is a comprehensive early care and education program that profoundly nurtures children and prepares them for lifelong happiness.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 234 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Family Central Inc.(FCI) is a comprehensive, accredited, and multi-cultural social service agency serving children and families in South Florida.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 232 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Oregon Child Development Coalition (OCDC) is dedicated to improving the lives of children and families by providing early childhood education, care and advocacy with unique and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 197 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Tulsa Educare!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 192 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 50 years, education has been at the core of our work - from our humble beginnings as a provider of early childhood education for low-income families in Guilford…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As of March 15, 2023, Child Care Resources is now officially BrightSpark Early Learning Services!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 184 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Carole Robertson Center for Learning is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating, enriching, and empowering children and families through comprehensive child and family…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 184 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Community Services for Children, Inc, a private nonprofit organization in Allentown, Pa, prepares young children and their families to succeed in learning and in life through…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 180 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: head start programs. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names head start programs.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of head start programs, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name head start programs. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Head start programs based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 1,923 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among head start programs, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “head start programs”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names head start programs), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among head start programs, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 6,037 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Head start programs by metro
- Head start programs in New York47
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names head start programs, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many head start programs are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 1,923 head start programs headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Child Care Services Association, headquartered in Chapel, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most head start programs?
New York leads with 47 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (24) and Houston (17).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 6,037 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,923 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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