Texas · Nonprofit
LINK HOUSTON
LINK HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,457,982 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($2,956,150). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $153k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Link Houston does
Mission
Advocates for a robust and equitable transportation network so all people can reach opportunity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Increase transportation access to opportunity reliable transportation is a critical component of economic mobility and quality of life. Through community engagement and data-driven research, the organization documents barriers residents face when trying to reach jobs, schools, grocery stores, healthcare, parks, and other essential destinations. The organization works to improve equitable access to opportunity by advancing high-quality, affordable, safe, and environmentally sustainable transportation options including sidewalks, bikeways, and frequent public transit. The organization advocates for decision-makers to consider housing and transportation costs together as they work to improve affordability and develop new housing. Through coalition building and policy advocacy, the organization works to ensure that decisions are made with equity, affordability, and long-term community prosperity in mind, and to expand access and strengthen communities across the region.
$99,667 spent16% of program spendingEnsure inclusive mobility: the organization aims to improve the quantity and quality of mobility options, especially in communities of color where transportation infrastructure and service investments have lagged for decades. The organization continues to update and release the equity in transit reports to measure public transit progress and to provide data to community members to hold decision-makers accountable to the promises they make. The organization advocates for improvements to high-frequency transit in areas with high demand for affordable transportation; lives saved among people walking and biking; and affordable, zero-to-low carbon emissions mobility options, especially for communities of color.
$435,055 spent70% of program spendingKeep communities united: the organization partners with residents and non-profit organizations to advocate for mitigations in the proposed north houston highway improvement project and other highway expansion projects. Through community engagement, the organization works closely with residents to impact decision-making systems influencing long-term transportation planning and funding in the region. The keep communities united program focuses on advocacy for investments in transportation infrastructure that maintain communities and provide access to important destinations.
$86,369 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $621,091.
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 $2.2M to $3.3M (+49%).
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: 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of LINK HOUSTON’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Amanda Timm
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income fell $897k → $252k.
6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 LINK HOUSTON’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
LINK HOUSTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 LINK HOUSTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 58% · 2020 64% · 2021 89% · 2022 81% · 2023 41% — 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
9% of LINK HOUSTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
74% of LINK HOUSTON's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
LINK HOUSTON holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,065 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,065 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LINK HOUSTON
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
75% 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 LINK HOUSTON: 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 LINK HOUSTON?
- LINK HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,457,982 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($2,956,150). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LINK HOUSTON have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $6,457,982 in grants to LINK HOUSTON, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINK HOUSTON?
- HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,956,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINK HOUSTON 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing