Iowa · Nonprofit
LINKING FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES
LINKING FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,098 to it, the largest being GreenState Credit Union ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $776k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $67k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Linking Families & Communities does
Mission
To encourage early intellectual stimulation of very young children, increase the basic skill levels of students entering school, increase the health status of children, reduce the incidence of child abuse and neglect, increase the access of children to an adult mentor, increase parental involvement with their children and increase the quality and accessability of child care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
As the organizational entity and fiscal agent for the community empowerment area consisting of calhoun, pocahontas and webster counties, services provided include the fostering of collaboration among state agencies to coordinate the delivery of these agencies funding and other resources to families and children to improve the quality of life for families with young children.
$499,346 spent$618,888 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $499,346.
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 2020 to 2021, from $705k to $1.1M (+55%).
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: 2017 12% · 2018 11% · 2019 11% · 2020 15% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of LINKING FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Elizabeth Stanek
Executive director
Board chair
Clarence Siepker
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $12k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES’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 FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 83% — 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.
Where its funders are
63% of LINKING FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98 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
LINKING FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LINKING FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 LINKING FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES: 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 FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES?
- LINKING FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,098 to it, the largest being GreenState Credit Union ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LINKING FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $67,098 in grants to LINKING FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINKING FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES?
- GreenState Credit Union is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINKING FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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