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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
5/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%
01What it does

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

  1. 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 program
    65% of program spending
  2. UNAVSA 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 program
    35% of program spending
  3. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $221,601.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($37k) Expenses 100 ($64k) Net assets 100 ($124k)2022 Revenue 322 ($118k) Expenses 122 ($78k) Net assets 132 ($163k)2023 Revenue 502 ($183k) Expenses 192 ($123k) Net assets 181 ($224k)2024 Revenue 609 ($222k) Expenses 251 ($160k) Net assets 231 ($286k)2025 Revenue 572 ($209k) Expenses 368 ($235k) Net assets 210 ($260k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (572)Expenses (368)Net assets (210)Peer revenue range

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%).

$124k
$163k
$224k
$286k
$260k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$27k
’21
$40k
’22
$61k
’23
$62k
’24
−$26k
’25
13
months of
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.

20242025
Listed88
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

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.

91%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

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.

NY
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
California out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

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.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve13.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)55% · top quartile

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

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

CA

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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