Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 181 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,619,677 to it, the largest being AARP ($1,073,500). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 181
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $30M
What The Links Foundation Incorporated does
Mission
Promoting and engaging in educational, civic and intercultural activities in order to enrich the lives of members of the larger community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Community services activities - the foundation has established various programs to influence and raise awareness about issues affecting the african-american community, locally and abroad. These programs are designated amongst five major categories - national trends and services, international trends and services, services to youth, health and human service, and the arts. These issues include healthy lifestyles, academic, achievement, economic independence, international literacy, assisting youth realizing their full potential and encourage appreciation of a support for cultural involvement and enrichment.
$10,250,979 spentof which $8,855,138 as grants$380,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,250,979.
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.
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 $28M to $32M (+16%).
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 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Gwendolyn E Boyd
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 58 funders, grant income rose $139k → $926k.
42 of 181 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $22k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest The Links Foundation Incorporated). These are real filings, and they are not money THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED raised.
From the IRS filings of THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 181 funders by total. 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
THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
77% 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 THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 31% · 2019 41% · 2020 21% · 2021 33% · 2022 20% · 2023 22% — growing more concentrated.
“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
24% of THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 29 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 23 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.
Government funding THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7k on record.
- sponsorship$6k
- Management Consultant Services$1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Links Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: 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 THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED?
- THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 181 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,619,677 to it, the largest being AARP ($1,073,500). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 181 organizations giving $5,619,677 in grants to THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED, 78 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED?
- AARP is the largest funder on record, with $1,073,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 181 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