Georgia · Nonprofit
GOLDEN KEY INTERNATIONAL HONOUR SOCIETY INC
GOLDEN KEY INTERNATIONAL HONOUR SOCIETY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $217 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($192). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $217
- Net assets
- $443k
What Golden Key International Honour Society Inc does
Mission
To enable members to realize their potential through the advancement of academics, leadership and service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student recognition: student recognition is the service associated with recognizing the top achieving sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students globally at our over 350 universities in 6 countries. Golden key and its university partners recognize all students, who meet the criteria, presented to the organization by the university for their academic achievement. Other services include communicating the value added by joining the society, recruiting accredited universities globally to join the golden key network and further the mission by offering academic excellence, member benefits, service and leadership.
$802,898 spent$1,077,980 earned by the program46% of program spendingMember benefits: member benefits is the program service associated with providing benefits to the student members, alumni, advisors and honorary members. Member benefits include 1) scholarships, 2) recognition, 3) leadership, 4) career benefits and training, 5) merchandise, 6) mentoring, 7) regional and international conferences, 8) study abroad, 9) jobs and internships, and 10) discounted programs.
$481,761 spentof which $26,599 as grants$328,964 earned by the program28% of program spendingUniversity activities: university activities is the program service associated with funding and overall support of over 350 chapters located on the university campus in 6 countries to further the gk mission of 1) providing benefits at the local level, 2) promoting gk at the local level, 3) funding allocated to chapters for leadership activities to include atiendance at both regional and international conferences and leadership positions with the chapter model, 4) mentoring activities for both advisors and students, and 5) promoting service activities at the local level.
$348,863 spent20% of program spendingLeadership/volunteer training
$118,193 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,751,715.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.4M to $931k (−32%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of GOLDEN KEY INTERNATIONAL HONOUR SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Melissa Leitzell
CEO
Board chair
Michael Sanseviro
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $74 → $55.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.9M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Golden Key International Honour Society Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GOLDEN KEY INTERNATIONAL HONOUR SOCIETY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GOLDEN KEY INTERNATIONAL HONOUR SOCIETY INC’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
GOLDEN KEY INTERNATIONAL HONOUR SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 GOLDEN KEY INTERNATIONAL HONOUR SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 66% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
88% of GOLDEN KEY INTERNATIONAL HONOUR SOCIETY INC'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 $25 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
GOLDEN KEY INTERNATIONAL HONOUR SOCIETY INC's revenue fell 70% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Golden Key Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GOLDEN KEY INTERNATIONAL HONOUR SOCIETY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GOLDEN KEY INTERNATIONAL HONOUR SOCIETY INC?
- GOLDEN KEY INTERNATIONAL HONOUR SOCIETY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $217 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($192). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GOLDEN KEY INTERNATIONAL HONOUR SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $217 in grants to GOLDEN KEY INTERNATIONAL HONOUR SOCIETY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOLDEN KEY INTERNATIONAL HONOUR SOCIETY INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $192 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOLDEN KEY INTERNATIONAL HONOUR SOCIETY INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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