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NATIONAL LINKS TRUST

EIN 84-2249627 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$15,036,450
Expenses 2024
$11,202,246

Program services were 91.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A82
Classification
1200
Street
331 7TH ST NE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

NATIONAL LINKS TRUST IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO POSITIVELY IMPACTING OUR COMMUNITY AND CHANGING LIVES THROUGH AFFORDABLE AND ACCESSIBLE MUNICIPAL GOLF.

  • NATIONAL LINKS TRUST (NLT) OPERATES THREE MUNICIPAL GOLF COURSES IN WASHINGTON, DC: EAST POTOMAC GOLF LINKS, LANGSTON GOLF COURSE AND ROCK CREEK PARK GOLF. THESE PROPERTIES GENERATE REVENUE THROUGH REGULAR GOLF COURSE OPERATIONS; HOWEVER, AS PART OF THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION TO PROVIDE ACCESSIBLE, AFFORDABLE GOLF TO LOCAL COMMUNITIES, THE RATES ARE WELL BELOW MARKET VALUE. TO BETTER SERVE THE COMMUNITY OF GOLFERS IN WASHINGTON, DC, NLT INVESTED IN COURSE IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS INCLUDING:A. CONTINUED IMPROVEMENT OF COURSE CONDITIONS THROUGH IMPROVED AGRONOMIC PRACTICES.B. SIGNIFICANT PLANNING, CONSULTATION, DESIGN, AND REFINEMENT OF FUTURE PLANS FOR LARGE-SCALE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS AT THE THREE COURSES TO TRANSFORM THEM INTO TRUE COMMUNITY ASSETS THAT BENEFIT BOTH GOLFERS AND NON-GOLFERS IN THE COMMUNITY.C. IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT APPROACH TO REMOVING INVASIVE VEGETATION AND THE BEGINNING OF SITE WORK AT ROCK CREEK PARK GOLF AHEAD OF A LARGE-SCALE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT AT THE COURSE.D. EXECUTION OF A FULL RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF EAST POTOMAC MINIATURE GOLF - THE NATION'S OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY OPERATING MINIATURE GOLF COURSE.THE JACK VARDAMAN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM WAS CONDUCTED AT LANGSTON GOLF COURSE WHERE THIRTY ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS WERE TAUGHT VALUABLE JOB AND LIFE SKILLS WHILE EARNING AN INCOME AND BUILDING ELIGIBILITY FOR COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP. IN 2024, THE PROGRAM PRODUCED ITS FIRST 'EVANS SCHOLAR' - A RECIPIENT OF A FULL HOUSING AND TUITION COLLEGE GRANT THROUGH A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE WESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION. THE BANCROFT GORDON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP WAS ALSO CREATED, FUNDED, AND AWARDED BY NLT AND PRESENTED TO THREE STUDENTS WHO EXCELLED IN THE PROGRAM IN 2024.2024 MARKED THE BEGINNING OF "FREE LESSON FRIDAYS", A COMMUNITY EVENT SERIES TARGETED AT INTRODUCING LOCAL WASHINGTON, DC COMMUNITY MEMBERS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS TO THE GAME OF GOLF. THE PROGRAM SAW MORE THAN 300 PARTICIPANTS ACROSS SIX EVENTS. THROUGH STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS, DEDICATED MAINTENANCE PRACTICES, AND A GROWING COMMUNITY OF VOLUNTEERS, NLT CONTINUED ITS COMMITMENT TO LONG-TERM ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AT THE THREE COURSES. IN 2024, NLT MOBILIZED A ROBUST VOLUNTEER NETWORK TO EXECUTE MORE THAN 1,650-MAN HOURS DEDICATED TO ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY PROJECTS. PROJECTS INCLUDED REMOVING TRASH FROM THE FACILITIES AND THEIR SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENTS AND RESTORING NATIVE HABITAT THROUGH INVASIVE VEGETATION REMOVAL.

    Expenses $10,195,056 · Revenue $10,955,195

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • MICHAEL MCCARTIN

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $50,000
    From this org
    $50,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • WILL SMITH

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $50,000
    From this org
    $50,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • JOHN HONG

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $25,000
    From this org
    $25,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • LISA MITCHELL

    DIRECTOR-UNTIL 04/24, SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • TARI CASH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • ALAN FADEL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • KATHRYN KENNEDY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • CRAIG KIRBY

    DIRECTOR UNTIL 10/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • PENNY LEE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • STEVE SAYRE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • STUART SICILANO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • LEMUEL SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • WILLIAM SPENCE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • MATTHEW CUTTS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • MARK TUOHEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • PATRICIA HINES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JEFF STRUNK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • CHUCK WILSON

    DIRECTOR AS OF 10/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • HILLARY BALTIMORE

    DIRECTOR AS OF 10/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • KIRTAN MEHTA

    DIRECTOR AS OF 10/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • DAMIAN COSBY

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $176,608
    From this org
    $167,813
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,795
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $157,500
    Bonus
    $10,313
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,795
    Filer's total
    $176,608

  • CLARK PASTRICK

    SR. PROJECT MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $126,250
    From this org
    $126,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $15,036,450
    Expenses
    $11,202,246
    Contributions
    $3,641,702
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $12,540,988
    Expenses
    $9,478,375
    Contributions
    $1,728,941
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $10,008,973
    Expenses
    $8,352,380
    Contributions
    $1,814,015
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,793,468
    Expenses
    $6,355,258
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,914,003

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,611,800
    Expenses
    $1,144,844
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,852,462

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
Michael McCartin
Mailing address
331 7th Street NEWashington DC 20002
Website
www.nationallinkstrust.com

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.