Georgia · Nonprofit
Atlanta Ministry With International Students Inc aka AMIS Atlanta
Atlanta Ministry With International Students Inc aka AMIS Atlanta (Georgia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,792 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($33,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $136k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $243k
What Atlanta Ministry With International Students Inc aka AMIS Atlanta does
Mission
AMIS promotes cultural and global understanding through friendship and hospitality with international college and graduate students and scholars in the greater Atlanta area. We WELCOME international students and CONNECT them with local FRIENDS in the community through our Amigo Friendship program an Annual Welcome Reception and events to help international students learn more about our city exchange cultural traditions and celebrate holidays. Our vision is to create a more peaceful welcoming and connected world through international friendship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Amigo International Friendship Program: Our Friendship program matches an international student or scholar with a local volunteer in the community for friendship and sharing of cultures. Volunteers are screened oriented and trained for their role. Students are interviewed as well. We offer short term and year-long opportunities. In 2025 112 students scholars were matched with volunteers.
$41,367 spent39% of program spendingWelcome Reception: In 2025 our 47th Welcome Reception for international students and scholars was held on Saturday September 27 2025 at the Georgia Tech Coda Plaza. This event received a record 558 registrations of international students and volunteers. Guests enjoyed live music icebreaker activities a photo booth international line dancing and learned about AMIS programs and events and received several door prizes. Participants enjoyed a catered reception. It was a wonderful day to celebrate international students from around the world studying at Georgia Tech Emory Georgia State Oglethorpe Spelman Agnes Scott and other metro colleges universities.
$30,290 spent29% of program spendingEvents for International Students: In 2025 we hosted 22 in-person events for international students. Some events were social offering food and opportunities to meet other international students and local Americans. Others were opportunities to learn about our city like a visit to Dr. Martin Luther Kings historic site. Other events were held to share holiday traditions with international students around Thanksgiving and Christmas. In 2025 AMIS served over 600 international students from over 80 different countries who are students at Georgia Tech Emory Georgia State Oglethorpe Spelman Beulah Heights and others. In addition 160 volunteers participated in these events.
$33,174 spent32% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $104,831.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $163k to $225k (+38%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
84% of Atlanta Ministry With International Students Inc aka AMIS Atlanta’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Camille Kesler
Executive Director
Board chair
Zebekiah Bortner
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $150 → $15k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Atlanta Ministry With International Students Inc aka AMIS Atlanta’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Atlanta Ministry With International Students Inc aka AMIS Atlanta leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Atlanta Ministry With International Students Inc aka AMIS Atlanta.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 61% · 2022 91% · 2023 51% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of Atlanta Ministry With International Students Inc aka AMIS Atlanta's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
64% of Atlanta Ministry With International Students Inc aka AMIS Atlanta's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $23k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Atlanta Ministry With International Students Inc aka AMIS Atlanta receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $65k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Atlanta Ministry With International Students Inc aka AMIS Atlanta
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Atlanta Ministry With International Students Inc aka AMIS Atlanta?
- Atlanta Ministry With International Students Inc aka AMIS Atlanta (Georgia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,792 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($33,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Atlanta Ministry With International Students Inc aka AMIS Atlanta have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $64,792 in grants to Atlanta Ministry With International Students Inc aka AMIS Atlanta, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Atlanta Ministry With International Students Inc aka AMIS Atlanta?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $33,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Atlanta Ministry With International Students Inc aka AMIS Atlanta find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing