Washington · Nonprofit
LINC NW
LINC NW (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $930,656 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($383,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $813k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $931k
- Net assets
- $243k
What Linc Nw does
Mission
To provide innovative collaborative solutions to economic, social, environmental, and spiritual challenges in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Operating thrift store
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
LINC Organization: Networking non-profits, churches, schools, governmental agencies in North Snohomish County for common work in community. Partnership with "Change the Narrative" project to address BIPOC challenges (particularly in rural areas). Continued Cold Weather Shelter. Operated "Center at North Marysville" community resource center and operated second location at "Jennings Park" (see below). Continued "Lakewood Coalition" community group focused on drug and alcohol use prevention in local schools.
$523,379 spent$493,549 earned by the program66% of program spendingCommunity resource drop-in center and cold weather shelter: visitors to the drop-in center receive immediate help and assistance to meet their daily needs - emergency food, emergency overnight shelter when temperature is under 34 degrees, financial assistance with rent and utilities to keep them from becoming homeless, clothing, cold weather gear, and shelter. Drop-in staff and volunteers walk alongside and mentor individuals through housing and job searches, addiction and mental health services, and together discover and work through application processes to additional community resources. Longer term mentoring is provided to help individuals and families improve their life skills, increase their income potential, and strengthen their personal and economic stability.
$212,822 spent$257,240 earned by the program27% of program spendingLakewood Coalition. Built community networking group with representatives across agencies to address the challenges of youth drug and alcohol use in the community. Included direct service to Lakewood School District through drug and alcohol counselor.
$0 spent0% of program spendingSilvana Five and Dime thrift store. Provides low cost goods to the community and raises funds for community programs.
$54,561 spent$62,583 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $790,762.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $49k to $142k (+187%).
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: 2022 21% · 2023 68% · 2024 48% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of LINC NW’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Ryan Brown
Executive Director/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $50k → $173k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 LINC NW’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
LINC NW leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 LINC NW.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 91% · 2022 100% · 2023 90% — 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
40% of LINC NW's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% 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
89% of LINC NW's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141k 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
LINC NW has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LINC NW
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 LINC NW: 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 LINC NW?
- LINC NW (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $930,656 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($383,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LINC NW have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $930,656 in grants to LINC NW, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINC NW?
- INATAI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $383,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINC NW find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2018–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing