Connecticut · Nonprofit
LINKS TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
LINKS TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,240 to it, the largest being MARCUM FOUNDATION INC ($8,740). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $103k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $10k
What Links to College Foundation Inc does
Mission
The providing of funds for student scholarships, including through donations to educational institutions and/or through scholarships provided directly to students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The foundation typically conducts a charity golf tournament in connecticut. The tournament generates proceeds that will be presented to section 501(c)(3) educational institutions for the purpose of awarding scholarships. The proceeds are used to establish endowment funds at each institution as well as to provide current scholarships to accounting students.
$105,026 spentof which $38,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $105,026.
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 2023 to 2024, from $32k to $12k (−61%).
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.
32% of LINKS TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of LINKS TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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
LINKS TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2023 100% — 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
LINKS TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 3 states 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.
Against its field
LINKS TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 18% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LINKS TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: 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 TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
- LINKS TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,240 to it, the largest being MARCUM FOUNDATION INC ($8,740). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LINKS TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $18,240 in grants to LINKS TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINKS TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
- MARCUM FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,740 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINKS TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 4 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