Illinois · Nonprofit
Linking Efforts Against Drugs
Linking Efforts Against Drugs (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $231,896 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($130,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2021
- $448k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $232k
- Net assets
- $-193121
What Linking Efforts Against Drugs does
Mission
The Organization envisions a healthy community where youth choose not to use alcohol and other drugs. Through parent education, dynamic youth programs, and engagement with key community stakeholders, the Organization is dedicated to the promotion of healthy family relationships, emotional wellness, and the prevention of alcohol, drug use, and other risky behavior by youth.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
A Text-A-Tip - A 24/7 anonymous text crisis hotline offering emotional support for middle school and high school youth. The Organization offers the only text hotline in the country that is fully anonymous, and that is supported by teams of licensed mental health counselors. B Overdose Education & Naloxone Distribution - Naloxone, also known as Narcan, is an easy-to-use, lifesaving antidote to reverse opiate overdose due to prescription narcotics morphine, codeine, oxycodone, Vicodin or heroin. The Organization offers two types of Naloxone trainings: The first training is individual training that is intended for individuals who would like to be trained as an overdose responder. At this training, participants learn signs and symptoms of an overdose, how to use Naloxone, and complete the paperwork necessary to have a Naloxone kit sent to them. The second training is trainer training which is intended for individuals who would like to not only be trained as overdose responders, but who would like to be able to train others. C Technical Assistance and Coaching - Assists other organizations achieve goals and make a greater impact through evaluations, data gathering, data analysis,…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $137k to $77k (−44%).
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: 2018 27% · 2019 31% · 2020 25% · 2021 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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 held at 2 funders, grant income fell $18k → $1k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 Linking Efforts Against Drugs’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
Linking Efforts Against Drugs leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 Linking Efforts Against Drugs.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 51% · 2019 94% · 2020 91% · 2021 54% · 2022 88% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“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
22% of Linking Efforts Against Drugs's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
69% of Linking Efforts Against Drugs'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 $72k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k 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.
Government funding Linking Efforts Against Drugs receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
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 Linking Efforts Against Drugs
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 Linking Efforts Against Drugs: 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 Linking Efforts Against Drugs?
- Linking Efforts Against Drugs (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $231,896 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($130,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Linking Efforts Against Drugs have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $231,896 in grants to Linking Efforts Against Drugs, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Linking Efforts Against Drugs?
- RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Linking Efforts Against Drugs 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 FY2021 (financials across 2018–2021), and the filings of 11 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