North Carolina · Nonprofit
Community Link Programs of Travelers Aid Society of Central Carolinas Inc
Community Link Programs of Travelers Aid Society of Central Carolinas Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,986,118 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($2,705,909). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $294k
What Community Link Programs of Travelers Aid Society of Central Carolinas Inc does
Mission
To enable individuals and families to obtain and sustain safe, decent, and affordable housing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Homeless to Housing: Every day we help individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness identify and secure appropriate housing. While in the program, households work with counselors (caseworkers) to address the issues that led to homelessness. We serve veterans, people with disabilities, those fleeing domestic violence, and the chronically homeless. During the year, we helped approximately 140 people through our Homeless to Housing program.
$1,445,071 spentof which $1,038,913 as grants76% of program spendingAsset Building: We help low- to moderate-income households grow savings, buy a first home, prevent foreclosure, and receive free tax assistance. Individuals and families participate in our financial empowerment workshops that include budgeting, saving, credit repair, and banking/financial products to improve their financial health and independence. We also provide free tax preparation services to help lower-income people file their taxes and obtain much-needed tax refunds. We prepared 2,460 tax returns in 2025. Our organization is a Housing and Urban Development (HUD)approved agency, and services are provided by certified housing counselors.
$447,838 spentof which $2,792 as grants$6,540 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,892,909.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.8M to $296k (−89%).
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 71% · 2018 68% · 2019 72% · 2020 76% · 2021 73% · 2022 74% · 2023 70% · 2024 80% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Tameka Gunn
President & CEO
Board chair
Rodrick Banks
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $570k → $1.0M.
6 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Link Programs of Travelers Aid Society of Central Carolinas Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 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 Link Programs of Travelers Aid Society of Central Carolinas Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 Link Programs of Travelers Aid Society of Central Carolinas Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 55% · 2019 69% · 2020 45% · 2021 30% · 2022 35% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“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
64% of Community Link Programs of Travelers Aid Society of Central Carolinas Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
90% of Community Link Programs of Travelers Aid Society of Central Carolinas Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $472k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding Community Link Programs of Travelers Aid Society of Central Carolinas Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $23.1M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$21.9M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$1.3M
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 Link Programs of Travelers Aid Society of Central Carolinas Inc
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Community Link Home Ownership LLC · disregarded
- Community Link Affordable Housing LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Community Link Programs of Travelers Aid Society of Central Carolinas Inc?
- Community Link Programs of Travelers Aid Society of Central Carolinas Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,986,118 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($2,705,909). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community Link Programs of Travelers Aid Society of Central Carolinas Inc have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $5,986,118 in grants to Community Link Programs of Travelers Aid Society of Central Carolinas Inc, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Link Programs of Travelers Aid Society of Central Carolinas Inc?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,705,909 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Link Programs of Travelers Aid Society of Central Carolinas Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing