Missouri · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY LINC
COMMUNITY LINC (Missouri) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,045,638 to it, the largest being JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND ($1,040,508). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 88
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Community Linc does
Mission
Community Linc provides rapid rehousing programs for homeless families in kansas city, missouri. (continued on schedule o)other activities include training and education regarding budgeting, life skill training for both adults and children, short- and long-term goal planning, and healthy lifestyles, as well as counseling and therapy for both children and adults due to homelessness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community housing access (cha) is designed for low barrier households at risk of homelessness affected by impacts of covid due to health issues, decreasing wages, or loss of income. Households are given financial assistance and short-term case management to become stabilized to prevent homelessness. Additionally, cha assists households who are living unsheltered and in need of intervention to transition them from residing at places not meant for human or long-term habitation such as garages, parks, cars, hotels, and shelters. Services include short-term case management, connection to community resources, and financial assistance to stabilize unsheltered households and remove barriers to place them into housing programs or permanent housing through partnerships with housing providers.
$1,684,439 spentof which $565,281 as grants$49,047 earned by the program60% of program spendingInterim housing program is our longest standing program. It is designed for moderate barrier households needing more time to become stabilized. Families receive a fully furnished apartment on campus at no cost to them. They also receive a full array of wrap around services including, but not limited to, children's programming focused on resiliency, academic support, emotional wellness, and advocacy. Adult programming includes, but is not limited to, case management, employment services, life skills coaching, financial literacy, mental wellness services, and housing coordination. These services address evictions, rent and utility debts, allowing families to transition into permanent housing equipped for long-term stability.
$842,218 spentof which $203,772 as grants30% of program spendingHome for good program was designed for high barrier homeless families who have cycled in and out of shelters, tents, cars and other places not meant for permanent habitation. Barriers include landlord judgments, criminal backgrounds, mental health issues, drug addiction, and involvement with cps. Families receive a fully furnished on-campus apartment or housing in the community at no cost. Services include intensive case management with services including children's programing focused on resiliency, academic support, emotional wellness and advocacy. (continued on schedule o)adult programs include, case management, employment services, housing coordination mental wellness services, and financial coaching to address, housing barriers which include landlord judgments, and past-due utilities. These services address the underlying issues of chronic homelessness to break the cycle permanently.
$280,740 spentof which $23,512 as grants10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,807,397.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $3.6M to $5.5M (+54%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2020 22% · 2021 28% · 2023 33% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of COMMUNITY LINC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Monica Mallory
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $350k → $691k.
14 of 88 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of COMMUNITY LINC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 88 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
COMMUNITY LINC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
51% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COMMUNITY LINC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 63% · 2019 65% · 2020 48% · 2021 21% · 2022 29% · 2023 28% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
31% of COMMUNITY LINC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of COMMUNITY LINC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
COMMUNITY LINC's funding base is broadening — from 23 funders to 31 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding COMMUNITY LINC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COMMUNITY LINC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY LINC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY LINC?
- COMMUNITY LINC (Missouri) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,045,638 to it, the largest being JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND ($1,040,508). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY LINC have?
- IRS filings report 88 organizations giving $6,045,638 in grants to COMMUNITY LINC, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY LINC?
- JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,040,508 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY LINC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 88 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing