Texas · Nonprofit
KIDLINKS
KIDLINKS (Texas) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $632,271 to it, the largest being SHEA FAMILY FOUNDATION ($121,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $723k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $632k
- Net assets
- $352k
What Kidlinks does
Mission
Kidlinks' mission is linking kids to health and healing through music and media.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Music therapy (mt) uses music to achieve non-musical goals, such as improving speech/language and motor skills, managing pain or anxiety, and/or supporting socialization and self-expression. Kidlinks mt includes an individual assessment and development of a treatment plan specifically designed to meet the needs and goals of the child/client. We offer up to 24 free (fully subsidized) sessions to each client family with a board-certified music therapist, and session fees thereafter are based on a sliding scale depending on the family's income level. We currently have 4 total mt clinic locations: 2 home practices in arlington and fort worth, 1 in midlothian at bridges training foundation, and the music therapy clinic on the campus of smu (through our j.w. Brown music therapist-in-residence program).
$51,192 spent$3,257 earned by the program9% of program spendingTherapeutic music entertainment (tme) is defined as "a musical activity or performance which, by the virtue of its diversion, amusement and/or pleasing qualities, supports and encourages healing." Kidlinks provides tme to hospitals, special care centers, and community events throughout the dfw area. Our tme team works to create an environment where emotions can be expressed in positive ways, self-esteem is fostered, and individual differences are celebrated. We give children an opportunity to relax, be silly, have fun, and to heal.
$30,375 spent5% of program spendingOn our website at Kidlinks.org, we provide streaming access to over 250 songs, videos, animations, and music therapy resources 24-7, free of charge, and accessible from any computer, ipad, or phone. All of the musical content is vetted by a review team of early childhood professionals, ensuring that the lyrics and messaging are appropriate for children. These digital resources are developed to provide support for special medical, emotional, and mental health needs to children and their families, child life specialists, qualified mental health professionals, and music therapy professionals, students, and educators.
$491,246 spent86% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $572,813.
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 2020 to 2021, from $386k to $507k (+31%).
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: 2021 16% · 2024 0%. 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 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $18k → $63k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 KIDLINKS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 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
KIDLINKS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
31% 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 KIDLINKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 79% · 2020 22% · 2021 39% · 2022 49% · 2023 24% — 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
42% of KIDLINKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
71% of KIDLINKS's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $190k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like KIDLINKS
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KIDLINKS: 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 KIDLINKS?
- KIDLINKS (Texas) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $632,271 to it, the largest being SHEA FAMILY FOUNDATION ($121,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIDLINKS have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $632,271 in grants to KIDLINKS, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIDLINKS?
- SHEA FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $121,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIDLINKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 24 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