Missouri · Nonprofit
GREATER KC LINC INC
GREATER KC LINC INC (Missouri) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,893,319 to it, the largest being MID AMERICA ASSISTANCE COALITION ($2,787,185). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $49M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What Greater Kc Linc Inc does
Mission
To provide leadership and influence to engage the kansas city, missouri community as well as the surrounding communities in creating the best service delivery system to support and strengthen children, families and individuals, holding that system accountable, and changing public attitudes towards the system. The purpose of linc includes being a state-wide resource for missouri for certain data and communications needs and services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth development protecting children and youth: linc is actively involved in addressing community child and adolescent issues. The programs improve outcomes for (and extend services to) at-risk families, particularly those at risk for child abuse and neglect and those who have been involved with the juvenile court system. Emphasis is put on enhancing community awareness and training and developing data systems to support better service delivery by the state child welfare agency. These efforts also include: 1. Coordinating a regional effort to work with teenage children leaving the foster care system so they are successful in moving towards an independent and productive adulthood. 2. Personal responsibility education program (prep) provides training for youth on making safe choices. 3. Financial infrastructure support for three regional adoption resource centers located in missouri. 4. Mentoring services to assist youth who for a variety of reasons may benefit from additional role models in their lives. 5. Staffing and operational support for the missouri department of youth services' star school - an online virtual school which delivers a unique educational approach with supports…
$21,606,367 spentof which $656,127 as grants48% of program spendingCaring communities helping students, parents and neighbors: linc provides support services for schools and neighborhoods in multiple school districts. Major efforts include building community schools, operating before and after school programs in area districts and charter schools, implementing federal 21st century community learning center grants, and operating the area's community partnership initiative. Other smaller, similar programs are also included in the category. In total, as of june 30, 2024, there were 52 caring community sites across seven school districts which include two charter schools and one community center. Linc offers supports for students, families and neighborhoods through the caring communities' system. These supports include help with housing, utilities, community health, food insecurity, education and other community identified needs. Before and after school care is one programming component for many caring communities' locations. Currently, 45 school sites offer linc-facilitated before and after school activities. These programs operate every day school is in session during the regular school year, with summer programming historically offered at a…
$15,318,364 spentof which $371,594 as grants$41,570 earned by the program34% of program spendingCommunity assistance: the caring communities concept is built around a holistic approach to resolving individual, family and neighborhood issues. Eliminating the obvious issue often requires addressing several that are much less obvious. To accomplish this, linc facilitates caring community sites which offer services such as utility assistance, grandparents as parents support, food pantries, clothes closets and other supports applicable to the needs of each site's residents.
$5,335,794 spentof which $922,967 as grants12% of program spendingWork skills: under a contract with the state of missouri to support its missouri work assistance initiative (mwa), lincworks is responsible for serving unemployed and underemployed adults in the counties of jackson, clay and platte. These counties cover the kansas city, missouri metropolitan area and surrounding region. Through development, planning, contracting and monitoring community-based welfare-to-work systems, lincworks focuses on job retention issues, including child care, job readiness, personal skills, employer training and public transportation. Childcare education and support: linc has a long history of working closely with local childcare providers and other organizations who share a common vision of quality childcare. As an integrated community-wide asset, the childcare service network holds high value not only to family's dependent upon it, but to the metropolitan area as a whole. A critical component in quality care is training. Educare services offered by linc represent one of the first steps in a range of training opportunities available for childcare providers in the kansas city area. Critical skillsets and on-site technical support are made available to…
$3,211,643 spentof which $320,208 as grants7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $45,472,168.
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 2021 to 2022, from $10M to $15M (+46%).
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 91% · 2018 92% · 2019 94% · 2020 95% · 2021 97% · 2022 96% · 2023 93% · 2024 95% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of GREATER KC LINC INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Janet Miles-Bartee
President & chief executive officer
Board chair
Shawn Foster
Commissioner/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $113k → $965k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 GREATER KC LINC 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
GREATER KC LINC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 GREATER KC LINC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 60% · 2019 62% · 2020 94% · 2021 75% · 2022 93% · 2023 87% — broadly stable.
“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
40% of GREATER KC LINC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
98% of GREATER KC LINC INC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
GREATER KC LINC INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like GREATER KC LINC 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER KC LINC INC?
- GREATER KC LINC INC (Missouri) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,893,319 to it, the largest being MID AMERICA ASSISTANCE COALITION ($2,787,185). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER KC LINC INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $3,893,319 in grants to GREATER KC LINC INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER KC LINC INC?
- MID AMERICA ASSISTANCE COALITION is the largest funder on record, with $2,787,185 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER KC LINC INC 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 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