Links of Love
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 711027979
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Lancaster, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8032356061
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Lakisha Truesdale (Chairman)
- Tammie White (Vice Chairman)
- Diane Thompson (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At Links of Love, our mission is to empower students from Pre-K to college by providing educational support, mentorship, and community resources. We are dedicated to fostering academic success, social growth, and emotional well-being, ensuring that every child and family have the tools they need to thrive. Through collaboration, compassion, and commitment, we strive to build a brighter future-one student at a time.
What it reported doing in 2024
Over the past several years, Links of Love has proudly supported a variety of after-school programs across South Carolina that serve children with disabilities and those on the autism spectrum. By collaborating with local nonprofits, schools, and therapy providers-including Milestones Speech and Language and Excel Leadership Academy-we have helped strengthen existing programs by offering staffing support, sharing best practices, providing family referrals, and contributing to inclusive enrichment activities. These partnerships have allowed us to witness firsthand the transformative impact that structured, nurturing, and individualized care can have on a child's development. Recognizing the ongoing need for accessible, high-quality after-school care in our own Lancaster community, Links of Love is excited to announce the launch of our own signature after-school program in Fall 2025. This new initiative will be designed specifically for children with developmental disabilities and those on the autism spectrum, offering a safe, values-based environment with structured routines, academic and social support, and therapeutic partnerships. Our program will feature sensory-friendly spaces, small group instruction, communication support, and leadership enrichment-reflecting the lessons learned through our prior collaborations and the voices of the families we serve. As we move toward this next chapter, we remain committed to delivering compassionate, family-centered care that meets each child where they are and helps them grow into their fullest potential.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $150K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 9 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.