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CULTURE LINK INC

CULTURE LINK INC (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $424,278 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($133,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$296k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$424k
Net assets
$89k
7/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Culture Link Inc does

Mission

CULTURE LINK provides practical training and resources to enable churches, mission organizations, and corporations to impact others as they effectively serve in cross-cultural settings.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. 2025 Program Service Accomplishments 2025 started strong with three Help! We're Going On A Short-Term Trip! seminars: one in Atlanta, GA, one in Tampa, FL, and one closed class with a church partner in Atlanta, GA. In late January, Ryan Hurlburt conducted a workshop on "Designing Short-Term Trips with Your Partners" at the annual Mission Connexion Northwest Conference in Portland, OR. CULTURELink was a conference sponsor once again. The Ragans returned to Saudi Arabia in February for a 10-day prayer retreat, traveling throughout the country to intercede in strategic places. Afterward, Karen traveled to Tajikistan for a prayer conference, in addition to caring for workers. In February, Larry Ragan conducted a workshop at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church's MOVE Conference. He also taught an Intentional Living seminar for a church partner in the Atlanta, GA area. Larry was invited by the Navigators staff at the University of Alabama to lead a spiritual life retreat for over 30 students in March. In late March, Ryan joined the Ragans in Northern Cyprus for the Groundwork West Conference, where 1000 workers gathered to pray for the Muslim world. Many of those in attendance serve in some of…

    $276,335 spent$16,634 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $276,335.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($225k) Expenses 100 ($240k) Net assets 100 ($39k)2018 Revenue 108 ($243k) Expenses 93 ($223k) Net assets 149 ($59k)2019 Revenue 148 ($332k) Expenses 108 ($260k) Net assets 332 ($131k)2020 Revenue 104 ($234k) Expenses 103 ($249k) Net assets 295 ($116k)2021 Revenue 92 ($208k) Expenses 101 ($242k) Net assets 208 ($82k)2022 Revenue 136 ($306k) Expenses 128 ($308k) Net assets 204 ($80k)2023 Revenue 194 ($436k) Expenses 155 ($373k) Net assets 362 ($143k)2024 Revenue 134 ($301k) Expenses 144 ($347k) Net assets 247 ($97k)2025 Revenue 132 ($296k) Expenses 127 ($305k) Net assets 225 ($89k)
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Revenue (132)Expenses (127)Net assets (225)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $59k to $131k (+123%).

$39k
$59k
$131k
$116k
$82k
$80k
$143k
$97k
$89k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

94% of CULTURE LINK INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,342 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$16k
’17
$19k
’18
$72k
’19
−$15k
’20
−$34k
’21
−$2k
’22
$63k
’23
−$46k
’24
−$9k
’25
3.5
months of
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.

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Listed444444444
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·00000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $14k → $105k.

8 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 CULTURE LINK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

CULTURE LINK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

95% 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 CULTURE LINK INC.

31%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 45% · 2019 55% · 2020 70% · 2021 61% · 2022 67% · 2023 39% — 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

33% of CULTURE LINK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

95% of CULTURE LINK INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Georgia funders.

GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $404k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CULTURE LINK INC's revenue grew 32% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve3.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,850 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 7%Fundraising 3%

Governance

4
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds CULTURE LINK INC?
CULTURE LINK INC (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $424,278 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($133,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CULTURE LINK INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $424,278 in grants to CULTURE LINK INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CULTURE LINK INC?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $133,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CULTURE LINK INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 9 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