Massachusetts · Nonprofit
JOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE
JOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,037,627 to it, the largest being ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($490,250). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What John Ashford Link House does
Mission
Residential substance-use treatment and behavioral health services
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Link house, inc. Operates a 20-bed, 6-month intensive men's addiction treatment facility with 24-hour supervision based in newburyport, ma since our founding in 1972. These men have recently achieved sobriety and are learning to manage long-term recovery while employing case management, volunteering, and attending groups and one-on-one clinical appointments.
$849,795 spent27% of program spendingThe maris center for women in salisbury, ma, a 40-bed transitional housing program for women in recovery with supportive case management services.
$621,021 spent$195,639 earned by the program20% of program spendingProgress house is a longer-term transitional housing program with case management for 25 men to work on their recovery in a highly supportive, safe, and sober environment for up to two years.
$204,991 spent$203,262 earned by the program7% of program spendingLink house also operates an outpatient therapy program for adults and children age 5+ and works with students in the local school system to treat mental & behavioral health challenges. The outpatient therapy department accepts most private insurance, as well as medicaid and medicare which assists 95% of our clients. Additionally, lhi owns and operates women's independent sober house (wish) newburyport, which provides permanent housing for 16 women in long-term recovery in a supportive, safe, and sober environment.
$1,448,585 spent$924,041 earned by the program46% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,124,392.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.3M to $5.8M (+11%).
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 65% · 2018 61% · 2019 49% · 2020 39% · 2021 30% · 2022 24% · 2023 22% · 2024 22% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of JOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Christine Turner
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $325k → $336k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 JOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE’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
JOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 JOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 74% · 2021 71% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — 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
50% of JOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE's funders are still giving 1 year 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
50% of JOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE'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 $518k that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $519k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
JOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE has grown faster than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding JOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.6M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$7.4M
- (GG) ENERGY COSTS AND SPACE RENTAL$1.2M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$3k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$1k
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 JOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 JOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE: 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 JOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE?
- JOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,037,627 to it, the largest being ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($490,250). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,037,627 in grants to JOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE?
- ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $490,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 8 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