How much did The Links Foundation Incorporated grant in FY2024?

The Links Foundation Incorporated reported 113 itemized grants totaling $7,566,078, out of $8,046,129 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is The Links Foundation Incorporated based?

The Links Foundation Incorporated is based in DC.

The Links Foundation Incorporated

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

The Links Foundation Incorporated

Promoting and engaging in educational, civic and intercultural activities in order to enrich the lives of members of the larger community.

$8.0M

Granted FY2024still arriving

113

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.1M

Largest

01What you fund

01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$34MHealth$1.0MMembership Benefit$623kPublic Benefit$318kYouth Development$242kCommunity Improvement$151kArts & Culture$116kHuman Services$90kOther$0

02FY2024 · 113 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 113 grants below total $7,566,078 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,046,129 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $480,051 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k11 grants · $79k
$10k–50k61 grants · $1.6M
$50k–250k37 grants · $3.9M
$250k+4 grants · $2.1M

$35,000

Median grant

States reached

$32M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CENTRAL AREA	$1,101,462
CHICAGO CHAPTER	$365,716
TRINITY CHAPTER	$309,000
OAKLAND BAY AREA CHAPTER	$285,422
WESTERN AREA	$230,800
MEMPHIS CHAPTER	$217,222
SOUTHERN AREA	$199,848
DURHAM CHAPTER	$197,073
DALLAS CHAPTER	$177,124
PLANO NORTH MOTROPLEX CHAPTER	$155,900
ARLINGTON (VA) CHAPTER	$146,287
CROWN JEWELS CHAPTER	$140,000
HARBOR CITY CHAPTER	$139,921
WEST PALM BEACH CHAPTER	$136,532
SAN DIEGO CHAPTER	$131,600

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $173k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$34M · 175 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

175 repeat relationships — 107 still active in FY2024, 68 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

175

Total granted

$34M

$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+25%

Still filing today

84%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Community ImprovementMembership BenefitArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

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THE LINKS INCORPORATED CENTRAL AREA
7× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +983% · 48% of their budget
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TRINITY (TX) Chapter of the LINKS INCORPORATED
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +208% · 99% of their budget
SA
SOUTHERN AREA OF THE LINKS INCORPORATED
6× · 2017–2024 · $965k · revenue +4% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +99%
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The Links Incoporated Columbus Chaptergraduated
2× · 2019–2025 · $216k · revenue ×37
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LINKS INC
one grant, 2018 · $81k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Jackson Ms Chapter of the Links Inc

Promote and engage in educational, civic, and intercultural activities throughout the Jackson, MS Metropolitan Area

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Links Inc the Missouri City Chapter of the Links Inc

Not-for-profit committed to serving the less-fortunate

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The Link Foundation

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Houston (Tx) Chapter of the Links Inc

Community service

—

The Wichita Chapter of Links Inc

Enriching, sustaining and ensuring the identities, culture and economic survival of african americans and persons of african ancestry.

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Link Foundation

Philanthropy

The Links Incorporated South Jersey Chapter

Chapter of National Volounteer Service Organization

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The Link Foundation Co Chemung Canal Trust Company

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The Golden Triangle Chapter of the Links Inc

Community service

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Links Inc Portland Chapter

Providing scholorships to needy students and servives ans support to the community.

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Sisters Involved in Linking Knowledge

Provide leadership, networking, education and mentoring opportunities

Human Services

Leadership Links

Leadership education and development

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Links Incorporated Montgomery County (Pa) Chapter and the most unlike its peers is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 65 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%4/221

the rest of the field

13%

240,396/1,819,344

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

178 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 178 of the 215 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

121

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

172/178

Grantees still filing

116/178

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$34,406,337Health$1,000,000Community Improvement$379,262Human Services$173,483Philanthropy$133,839Youth Development$70,130Membership Benefit$61,636

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Esther Gordy Bullock Edwards FoundationMI13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Esther Gordy Bullock Edwards Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Links Foundation Incorporated funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

30get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home