Links Inc
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What it says it does
Community Service
- Income
- $64,500
- Spending
- $65,493
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending April 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending April 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending April 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (4)
- $8,250 spent. Black KARES Increased chronic kidney disease awareness by providing information as well as tools to both the public as well as links to healthcare providers. 395 people served at health fair and 9529 person via busstop bench. $4730 spent in 2023 fiscal year funds received in 2024 fiscal year.
- $750 spent. International Trends and Services. We served approximately 60 children at Caddo Heights Elementary School and about 60 children at Bethune/Oak Park Elementary School. We partnered with the American Red Cross to provide CPR training to 5th graders at Bethune/Oak Park Elementary School and donated books to Caddo Heights Elementary School about children across the globe.
- $750 spent. Services to Youth Facet partnered with the Girls of Essence at Bethune/Oak Park and Caddo Heights Elementary Schools. Fifty-eight (58) girls were served. They focused on the importance of community service, the love for reading, friendship, mentorship, and the Arts.
- $2,250 spent. Programming Facet Costs for Health and Human Services, The Arts, and National Trends & Services program activities. These activities included Walk for Healthy Living, STEM Education, Black Family Wellness Day, Voter Registration Drive, and Arts Education exposure through trips to a local Art Museum.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending April 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Caution.
The IRS master file records contributions to this 501(c)(4) social welfare organization as not deductible.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending April 2026.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since December 1961.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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