California · Nonprofit
UNION OF NORTH AMERICAN VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS
UNION OF NORTH AMERICAN VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $496,412 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($451,273). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $209k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $496k
- Net assets
- $260k
What Union of North American Vietnamese Student Associations does
Mission
Empowering the next generation of Vietnamese youth with self-awareness, passion for change and propensity for leadership. Providing leadership and professional development for the Vietnamese college students and young professionals in the United States and Canada
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
UNAVSA Collective Philanthropy Project: Grant project for philanthropic causes dedicated to serving the Vietnamese community in North America and beyond. Causes include human trafficking, education, building better communities, and improving the quality of life for others.
$143,166 spentof which $141,284 as grants$137,051 earned by the program65% of program spendingUNAVSA 20th Annual Leadership Conference: 4-day annual conference of leadership and professional development for Vietnamese college students and young professionals across North America. Hosted approximately 200 attendees, staff, and guests.
$78,435 spent$49,710 earned by the program35% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $221,601.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $224k to $286k (+28%).
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.
76% of UNION OF NORTH AMERICAN VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $41k → $117k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 UNION OF NORTH AMERICAN VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS’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
UNION OF NORTH AMERICAN VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 UNION OF NORTH AMERICAN VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 89% · 2023 87% — 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.
Where its funders are
95% of UNION OF NORTH AMERICAN VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS'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, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $473k 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
UNION OF NORTH AMERICAN VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like UNION OF NORTH AMERICAN VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNION OF NORTH AMERICAN VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS: 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 UNION OF NORTH AMERICAN VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS?
- UNION OF NORTH AMERICAN VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $496,412 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($451,273). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNION OF NORTH AMERICAN VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $496,412 in grants to UNION OF NORTH AMERICAN VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNION OF NORTH AMERICAN VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $451,273 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNION OF NORTH AMERICAN VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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