Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
GLOBAL LINKS
GLOBAL LINKS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,696,698 to it, the largest being POSNER FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH ($1,265,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 73
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Global Links does
Mission
Global Links is a non-profit dedicated to improving health in communities with need. Global Links collaborates with u.s. Healthcare institutions and the community to rescue hundreds of tons of high-quality surplus medical materials every year. These materials are shared with public health facilities around the world and with non-profit organizations in western pennsylvania that are providing care for their community's most vulnerable people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our international programs support health improvement projects in communities lacking resources, primarily in latin america and the caribbean. We collaborate with the pan american health organization/world health organization (paho/who), national and local health leaders, and others to develop projects to improve public health outcomes in vulnerable populations. Our projects focus on primary care; strengthening public health and disaster recovery.
$4,755,320 spentof which $4,227,736 as grants77% of program spendingOur domestic programs include: 1. Our community partners program ensures that people in western pennsylvania have access to basic health and hygiene materials via our nonprofit partners. These medical and personal hygiene supplies are not available to people due to gaps in insurance coverage, affordability of co-pays, or lack of coverage by other assistance programs. We support initiatives related to basic needs, healthy aging, respiratory health, maternal and infant health, and community health. 2. Our community engagement and volunteer program provides a supportive and educational environment where hands-on service has a profound impact on the lives of those in need. People of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities sort and prepare the medical materials used in our programs, turning our region's surplus into life-saving and life-improving donations. 3. Our medical surplus recovery program provides healthcare organizations, universities and the public with a responsible alternative to discarding surplus medical supplies and furnishings, rescuing an average of 250 tons of high-quality surplus materials in a typical year.
$1,402,903 spentof which $532,134 as grants$241,100 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,158,223.
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 2023 to 2024, from $7.4M to $5.8M (−21%).
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 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 1% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of GLOBAL LINKS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% 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.
Chief executive
Angela Garcia
Executive director
Board chair
Christine Koebley
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $145k → $825k.
13 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 GLOBAL LINKS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 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
GLOBAL LINKS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
39% 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 GLOBAL LINKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 21% · 2019 13% · 2020 32% · 2021 36% · 2022 31% · 2023 30% — 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
50% of GLOBAL LINKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
92% of GLOBAL LINKS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $959k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
GLOBAL LINKS's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 30 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,608 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding GLOBAL LINKS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $521k on record.
- Agency for International Development$521k
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 GLOBAL LINKS
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GLOBAL LINKS: 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 GLOBAL LINKS?
- GLOBAL LINKS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,696,698 to it, the largest being POSNER FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH ($1,265,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GLOBAL LINKS have?
- IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $6,696,698 in grants to GLOBAL LINKS, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL LINKS?
- POSNER FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH is the largest funder on record, with $1,265,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL LINKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 73 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