Linking the World
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462826156
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2015
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2144120929
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $241,471
- Expenses
- $221,266
- Assets
- $46,445
- Liabilities
- $26,240
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MINA CHANG (CEO/CHAIRMAN)
- IAN DAILEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CHIEF OF STAFF)
People named in this filing
- MINA CHANG (CEO/CHAIRMAN)
- JEFF CAREY (SECRETARY/TREASURER)
- ANTHONY STERRETT (VICE CHAIRMAN)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to deliver humanitarian aid that builds communities marked by self-reliance, sustainable infrastructure and lasting change.
What it reported doing in 2015
Linking the world believes that communities are the best agents of their own change and the best engines of sustainable recovery. The organization focuses on places in transition, where conflict, disaster, political upheaval or economic collapse present opportunities to build more secure futures. The organization provides emergency relief in times of crisis, and then moves quickly to help communities recover and promote sustainable change to build resilience to future shocks. In 2015, linking the world provided humanitarian aid through the development of disaster preparedness and partnership within the unhrd program, and the development of the halo program, which includes uavs and assessments of how technology can be applied to humanitarian disasters. Linking the world helped empower communities through project handclasp, which distributes supplies, and through location specific adaptive programming, which includes mobile libraries, mobile medical clinics, and other education support. Linking the world also helps advance understanding through lectures on civil military programs at west point military academy, and by being a thought leader to the united nations, the u.s. Government, and other private institutions. The services provided by linking the world impacted over 2000 individuals during 2015
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 65.5%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.4%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.56; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 60% of revenue deployed · 65.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $145K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.