Links Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812894144
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Columbia, MO, USA
- Phone
- 5733564616
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $54,236
- Expenses
- $43,331
- Assets
- $31,464
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carolyn Brown (President)
- Rhonda Harper (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Carolyn Brown (President)
- Rhonda Harper (Vice President)
- Barbara Burgess (Recording Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Links Incorporated is a volunteer service organization of concerned, committed, and talented women who, linked in friendship, enhance the quality of life in the larger community. The organization is concerned primarily with enriching, sustaining and ensuring the identities, culture and economic survival of the African Americans and person of African descent. To contribute to the formation of a positive, productive and culturally diverse society. The Links, Incorporated also focuses on education, cultural enrichment, health and wellness and civic involvement. This focus is implemented through strategies such as in public information and education, economic development and public policy.
What it reported doing in 2025
Black Kare hosted a Black Family Wellness clinic and served a total of 33 people. Also, we did tabling at various community events, provided gift cards, gifts bags filled with educational and resource materials. We also rented a large billboard in a key location in the community that informed thousands of commuting citizens of where they could get more information on kidney health. We also held a a 5 week Oral Hygiene Program in Jefferson City at the Boys and Girls Club. Students learned about nutrition, dental hygiene, and were provided an in-depth presentation from a dental hygienist.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 18
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 16.6%; rating input score 17
- Program expense ratio: 20.8%; rating input score 21
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.1%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.5% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 16.6% of revenue deployed · 20.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 17/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.