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LAKE SHORE CHAPTER OF THE LINKS INC

LAKE SHORE CHAPTER OF THE LINKS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $161,555 to it, the largest being THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($161,555). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$87k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$162k
Net assets
$193k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Lake Shore Chapter of the Links Inc does

Mission

Lake Shore (IL) Chapter of The Links, Inc.s mission is to provide educational, cultural, and financial support to enrich the lives of families and underserved youth in Chicagos West Side community.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Services to youth, health and human services, internationaltrends, arts, national trends, and membership, mind, body,and spirit programs.

    $19,249 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,249.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($132k) Expenses 100 ($109k) Net assets 100 ($124k)2018 Revenue 73 ($96k) Expenses 69 ($76k) Net assets 92 ($115k)2019 Revenue 42 ($55k) Expenses 62 ($68k) Net assets 106 ($132k)2020 Revenue 67 ($88k) Expenses 60 ($65k) Net assets 112 ($140k)2021 Revenue 54 ($71k) Expenses 64 ($70k) Net assets 113 ($140k)2022 Revenue 37 ($49k) Expenses 50 ($54k) Net assets 109 ($135k)2023 Revenue 69 ($92k) Expenses 76 ($83k) Net assets 116 ($144k)2024 Revenue 93 ($123k) Expenses 82 ($89k) Net assets 143 ($177k)2025 Revenue 48 ($64k) Expenses 62 ($68k) Net assets 139 ($173k)2026 Revenue 66 ($87k) Expenses 61 ($66k) Net assets 156 ($193k)
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Revenue (66)Expenses (61)Net assets (156)

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 $144k to $177k (+23%).

$127k
$115k
$132k
$140k
$140k
$135k
$144k
$177k
$173k
$193k
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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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$23k
’17
$20k
’18
−$13k
’19
$23k
’20
$738
’21
−$5k
’22
$9k
’23
$34k
’24
−$4k
’25
$21k
’26
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $68k → $6k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of LAKE SHORE CHAPTER OF THE LINKS 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.

Where its funders are

LAKE SHORE CHAPTER OF THE LINKS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.

DC

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

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like LAKE SHORE CHAPTER OF THE LINKS 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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds LAKE SHORE CHAPTER OF THE LINKS INC?
LAKE SHORE CHAPTER OF THE LINKS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $161,555 to it, the largest being THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($161,555). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LAKE SHORE CHAPTER OF THE LINKS INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $161,555 in grants to LAKE SHORE CHAPTER OF THE LINKS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAKE SHORE CHAPTER OF THE LINKS INC?
THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $161,555 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAKE SHORE CHAPTER OF THE LINKS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 1 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