California · Nonprofit
Links Inc Oakland Bay Area Chapter
Links Inc Oakland Bay Area Chapter (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $792,833 to it, the largest being THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($792,833). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $677k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $793k
- Net assets
- $433k
What Links Inc Oakland Bay Area Chapter does
Mission
The exempt purpose of the Organization is to promote and engage in Educational, Civic and Intercultural activities in order to enrich the lives of individuals in the community at large, and to work together toward achieving common goals.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
The Organizations Scholarship Program encourages students to attend college. The program is open to graduating seniors who meet the program criteria in the Oakland Bay Area. Promoting and engaging in educational, civic and inter-cultural activities that enrich the lives of individuals of the Black Community at large. The cornerstone of the Organizations service is the five program facets: Services to Youth, The Arts, Health and Human Services, National Trends and Services and International Trends and Services. Provide Scholarships to graduating seniors who are attending college.
$55,507 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $55,507.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2025 to 2026, from $230k to $433k (+88%).
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: 2022 37%. 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 8 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
Denise Smith
Program Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $54k → $61k.
From the IRS filings of Links Inc Oakland Bay Area Chapter’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.
Where its funders are
Links Inc Oakland Bay Area Chapter draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like Links Inc Oakland Bay Area Chapter
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
12% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Links Inc Oakland Bay Area Chapter: 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 Inc Oakland Bay Area Chapter?
- Links Inc Oakland Bay Area Chapter (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $792,833 to it, the largest being THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($792,833). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Links Inc Oakland Bay Area Chapter have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $792,833 in grants to Links Inc Oakland Bay Area Chapter, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Links Inc Oakland Bay Area Chapter?
- THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $792,833 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Links Inc Oakland Bay Area Chapter 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 FY2026 (financials across 2019–2026), and the filings of 1 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