The Archway (MO) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated
Legal name: LINKS INC Archway (MO) Chapter
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 721543823
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Saint Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3145418083
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,205
- Expenses
- $67,252
- Assets
- $59,486
- 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
- Lauren Ming (President)
- Josephine Goode (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Lauren Ming (President)
- Josephine Goode (Vice President)
- Kay Gage (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 Archway (MO) Chapter of the Links, Incorporated designs and delivers sustainable programs that promote civic, cultural, and educational activities. Our programming enhances competencies and or reduce disparities for people of color in our community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Health and Human Services - Hosted the Black Family and Wellness Expo in collaboration with Black K.A.R.E. as well as a Kidney Health Awareness luncheon at Ameren.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 70% for direct work, and 30% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 41.2%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 39.3%; rating input score 39
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.7%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 44; 44th 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: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 5 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 41.2% of revenue deployed · 39.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 10 filed program accomplishments · $26K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.