Linking Families and Communities

Analysis

Linking Families and Communities is a registered charity in United States, based in Fort Dodge, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Linking Families and Communities reported income of $645k and spending of $567k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $658k to $645k (-1.9%), an average of -0.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Linking Families and Communities sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include California Police Youth Charities Inc ($645k), Patches Place ($645k) and Community Garden Kitchen of Collin County Inc ($645k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $68k. At year end it held assets of $860k against liabilities of $181k, net assets of $678k. It reported 1 employees.