Louisiana · Nonprofit
VIA LINK INC
VIA LINK INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,445,370 to it, the largest being UNITY OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC ($3,878,946). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Via Link Inc does
Mission
To provide information, referrals, training, and crisis intervention to people, oranizations and communities so that they may help themselves and others. Via link fulfills this mission through informationservices, referrals, training and crisis intervention.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Homeless management information system (hmis): provides and operates the homeless management information system for unity of greater new orleans, a hud funded project. Via link hmis provides training, technical support, aggregate reporting and data quality management for agencies affiliated with unity of greater new orleans.
$707,583 spent$916,701 earned by the program15% of program spendingContact center: provides individuals and organizations with information and referral to appropriate community resources through a 24-hour call center that provides crisis intervention/suicide prevention and information and refferals to community resources, the publication of the community resource directory and public access to community resource information on the organization's website, www.vialink.org
$3,085,705 spent$3,185,900 earned by the program67% of program spendingResource center: receives grant and contract support from various agencies to operate the resource center, which is a database of over 4,500 organizations that provide a wide range of services. Via link also produces data dashboards for other agencies.
$523,727 spent$236,806 earned by the program11% of program spendingOutreach and pcal:
$276,847 spent$114,251 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,593,862.
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 $2.8M to $1.7M (−39%).
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: 2021 8% · 2022 11% · 2023 19% · 2024 15% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Lavondra Dobss
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $820k → $671k.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 VIA LINK 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
VIA LINK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 VIA LINK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 49% · 2019 64% · 2020 54% · 2021 68% · 2022 57% · 2023 68% — 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
45% of VIA LINK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
97% of VIA LINK INC's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $252k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like VIA LINK 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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VIA LINK 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 VIA LINK INC?
- VIA LINK INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,445,370 to it, the largest being UNITY OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC ($3,878,946). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VIA LINK INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $6,445,370 in grants to VIA LINK INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIA LINK INC?
- UNITY OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,878,946 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIA LINK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 20 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