Kentucky · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SYSTEMS SCIENCES
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SYSTEMS SCIENCES (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $58k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $77k
What International Society of Systems Sciences does
Mission
Educational: the ISSS provides membership benefits in the form of systems education publications and annual meetings for its membership and other interested researchers. We host educational learning sessions online throughout the year so researchers can meet and share their work to further the field of systems science. Our aim is to research the field of systems science and provide educational opportunities to share the findings.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
This year the ISSS worked to serve the membership and the systems community at large by holding an in person annual meeting attended by over 90 people in person and 90 people online. ISSS has also continued to increased its options for members to collaborate and participate online by using meeting platforms and opportunities. This year the ISSS provided an opportunity for members to contribute to the theme of advancing together across the systems science field. ISSS currently has an overall membership of 130 people. Due to the success of our online presence, it was decided to continue to include online program options to increase accessibility for members and the organization. The ISSS also published an extensive conference proceedings that capture the research and collaborations of the year. The organization also created a number of recorded videos of many of the presentations, sessions and conversations that took place over the year and attended by members and non members from around the world.
$46,553 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,553.
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 2020 to 2021, from $28k to $50k (+75%).
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.
3% of INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SYSTEMS SCIENCES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SYSTEMS SCIENCES’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.
Where its funders are
100% of INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SYSTEMS SCIENCES'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SYSTEMS SCIENCES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 107 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 107 social science nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SYSTEMS SCIENCES
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SYSTEMS SCIENCES?
- INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SYSTEMS SCIENCES (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SYSTEMS SCIENCES have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SYSTEMS SCIENCES.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SYSTEMS SCIENCES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SYSTEMS SCIENCES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 1 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