The Links Inc Sacramento Chapter
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 946128811
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2169264679
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $115,099
- Expenses
- $125,403
- Assets
- $68,635
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kendra N Lewis (President)
- Kamieka Hairston (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Kendra N Lewis (President)
- Kamieka Hairston (Vice President)
- Marianna Harris (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 Sacramento CA Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, organized in 1952, is a volunteer service organization of dedicated, talented, and professional women who are committed to the organization's mission of enriching, sustaining, and ensuring the identities, culture, and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African ancestry. The Links, Incorporated is an international, not-for-profit corporation established in 1946 with its headquarters in Washington, D.C. The membership includes over 17,000 professional women of African decent in 299 chapters located in 41 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, and the United Kingdom. Marjorie Patterson and 15 distinguished women chartered The Sacramento Chapter of the Links, Incorporated on March 15, 1952. Members contribute over 4,000 documented hours of community service each year. The Sacramento Links programs are focused on five facet areas: The Arts Program expands and increases visual and perfo
What it reported doing in 2025
During FY2025/26, more than 63 active and alumnae members dedicated themselves to providing transformational programs to the Sacramento region. Our members contribute more than 4,000 documented hours of community service annually. Our most recent and on-going events include: Signature Program - In 2020, The Sacramento CA Chapter of The Links, Incorporated modified and created a new robust and relevant Achievers Program to 'Black Achievers Creating Change' BACC to a free two-year program focused on connecting, supporting, and celebrating high achieving African-American students in the Sacramento region. The program includes both young men and women in their junior and senior years of high school who exemplify academic achievement, leadership potential, and a willingness to empower others through volunteer service. The two-year comprehensive workshop series includes college preparation workshops, mentoring activities, civic and community service project and volunteer activities. In 2026, we had over 24 participants who engaged in a host of activities and workshops and completed a community service project focused on voter education and registration. The Sacramento Chapter of the Links, Incorporated holds a BACC celebration honoring our graduating seniors. Utilizing the umbrella approach to implement activities such problems, based on our research on low graduation and college attendance rates, increased mental health concerns of Black youth, and disengagement of youth from community service, each Program Facet designed and executed monthly workshops based on the BACC goals and objectives. The workshop structure included an interactive virtual experience with pre and post polling questions facilitated by chapter members on specific topics of engagement: The culminating project was led by our National Trends Program and included a community service project focused on educational equity the Arts Program provided colorful and fun ways to create life planning through mind maps and taught our youth how to create their own personal branding. Services to Youth Program invited Restorative Justice Scholars to demonstrate and facilitate a restorative justice circle process for the scholars International Trends brought global awareness of the study abroad opportunities while in college and Health and Human Services focused on isolation, anxiety, and depression during Covid-19 and learning the importance of preventing suicide in Black youth.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 12
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 20.1%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 22.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 20.1% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.