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Linking Hope and Help Inc

Linking Hope and Help Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $209,071 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($149,321). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$291k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$209k
Net assets
$182k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Linking Hope and Help Inc does

Mission

Assist persons with emergency financial needs

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Contact churches and agencies to help clients: Follow up each interview with a solicitation to partner churches and agencies to seek support in bill payment.

    $35,000 spent
    42% of program spending
  2. Screening persons seeking help from churches: In 2025, the Link interviewed 190 families (representing 458 individuals. Background check performed on each.

    $26,000 spent
    31% of program spending
  3. Employment assistance: Personalized service for persons seeking,or improvement of,employment. In 2025, 63 clients were assisted.

    $22,700 spent
    27% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $83,700.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($91k) Expenses 100 ($75k) Net assets 100 ($63k)2022 Revenue 161 ($145k) Expenses 94 ($70k) Net assets 219 ($139k)2023 Revenue 172 ($156k) Expenses 202 ($151k) Net assets 227 ($144k)2024 Revenue 297 ($269k) Expenses 246 ($184k) Net assets 135 ($85k)2025 Revenue 321 ($291k) Expenses 260 ($194k) Net assets 288 ($182k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (321)Expenses (260)Net assets (288)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $85k to $182k (+113%).

$63k
$139k
$144k
$85k
$182k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 100% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Linking Hope and Help Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
’21
$75k
’22
$5k
’23
$85k
’24
$97k
’25
11
months of
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.

20242025
Listed810
Joined·+3
No longer listed·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $19k → $17k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
2
1
1
2
2
2
3
2

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 Hope and Help 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.

How concentrated its funding is

Linking Hope and Help Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

71% 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 Hope and Help Inc.

71%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 96% · 2022 79% · 2023 54% — broadly stable.

“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

71% of Linking Hope and Help Inc'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 $60k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Virginia funders.

RI
VA

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

’17
’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $149k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Linking Hope and Help Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin33% · top quartile
Months of reserve11.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)34% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Linking Hope and Help 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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

43% of spending goes to programs.

Program 43%Management 57%Fundraising 0%

Governance

1
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Linking Hope and Help Inc?
Linking Hope and Help Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $209,071 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($149,321). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Linking Hope and Help Inc have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $209,071 in grants to Linking Hope and Help Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Linking Hope and Help Inc?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $149,321 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Linking Hope and Help Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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