California · Nonprofit
LINKS FOR LIFE
LINKS FOR LIFE (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $999,327 to it, the largest being VV Family Foundation ($150,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $688k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $999k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Links for Life does
Mission
Links for Life's mission is to provide an organization to benefit persons and families affected by breast cancer, to challenge each kern county woman to be aware of her breast health, promote support for those affected and to educate the general public about breast health.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To provide breast health education to the women and families throughout kern county. To educate the community on when you need to begin breast self-exam, when to begin having mammograms and if there is a change in your breast to make an appointment with a physician to go in to be screened.
$6,709 spent2% of program spendingThe comprehensive breast health program (cbhp) assisting in funding mammograms, ultrasounds, and needle biopsies for women and or men that are under or uninsured. This program is available to reduce the barriers for our community and to allow clients access to early screening so they have access to early diagnosis. With an early diagnosis of breast cancer your 5 year survival rates is 98%.
$50,395 spent13% of program spendingLink to resources assist with patients and families after diagnosis. There is a wig boutique for anyone facing hair loss due cancer treatment. There are bras and prosthesis for those who do not have coverage from their insurance. There are four support groups, the general support group for all breast cancer survivors and their family. There is the under 40ish and over 40ish support group, the grupo de esperanza, strong links, and husband hangout. Along with the support groups we have the grocery card program. This program supplies breast cancer survivors, while in active treatment, grocery cards assist the patients with necessities while in treatment. They meet with a dietitian and receive seasonal health recipes. The cards are supplied to the patient bimonthly or quarterly.
$329,835 spent84% of program spendingScholarships - $4,800
$4,800 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $391,739.
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 $952k to $1.1M (+17%).
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.
87% of LINKS FOR LIFE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Jennifer Henry
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $46k → $75k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 LINKS FOR LIFE’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
LINKS FOR LIFE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
72% 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 LINKS FOR LIFE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 66% · 2019 34% · 2020 30% · 2021 53% · 2022 66% · 2023 40% — 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
36% of LINKS FOR LIFE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
63% of LINKS FOR LIFE's grant income comes from California 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.
Against its field
LINKS FOR LIFE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LINKS FOR LIFE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 LINKS FOR LIFE: 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 LINKS FOR LIFE?
- LINKS FOR LIFE (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $999,327 to it, the largest being VV Family Foundation ($150,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LINKS FOR LIFE have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $999,327 in grants to LINKS FOR LIFE, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINKS FOR LIFE?
- VV Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINKS FOR LIFE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 21 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