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UNION OF THE VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOC SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
UNION OF THE VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOC SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,084 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($6,487). 1 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
- $493k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $82k
What Union of the Vietnamese Student Assoc Southern California does
Mission
The Union of the Vietnamese Student Associations of Southern California (UVSA) is a volunteer-based community organization which brings together youths to organize social, cultural, and community events in order to develop the next generation of Vietnamese American leaders. UVSAs annual programs include the Tet Festival, Project LEAD, and our Inter-Collegiate Council events.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Tet Festival celebrates the Lunar New Year and is UVSA's primary fundraiser. An estimated 50,000 guests attend the festival to show their support to the 300+ unpaid staff, 500+ youth volunteers, and countless community organizations who contribute their time and effort to make the festival successful. At the event, guests can experience the Vietnamese cultural village, an area where a rural or historic village in Vietnam is replaced including structures, exhibits, artwork, and volunteers dressed in cultural attire. Other programs at the event include cultural competitions such as the Miss Vietnam of Southern California pageant, children's traditional pageant, and talent contest, eating competitions featuring cultural foods, and cultural performances. The event further UVSA's mission to promote culture and also serves as a vehicle to develop 250 young leaders in event coordination. When the event performs well financially, UVSA allocates up to half of the proceeds to the Tet Community Assistance Fund. Through this grant opportunity, other non-profit organizations in Southern California can apply to receive funding to their programs. Since 2002, UVSA has awarded over $1,500,000…
$508,609 spent$469,372 earned by the program97% of program spendingProject LEAD (Leadership, Education, and Development) encompasses two programs (ACE Mentorship and Workshop Series) and three events (VAHSA Camp, UVSA Camp, and UVSA Summit). These programs and events aim to develop the youth to value mentorship, gain real-world training skills, and network with leaders locally and abroad. Project LEAD impacts over 300 high school and college students a year with either free or heavily subsidized programs and events.
$12,719 spent$5,804 earned by the program2% of program spendingThe Inter-Collegiate Council (ICC) represents member Vietnamese student organizations across 11 colleges across Southern California. The council coordinates and drives UVSA's mission to build unity collegiate youth by providing social and networking events for both college and high school students. Annual events include Beach Day, College Fair, Formal, Friendship Games, Gala, Sports Day, and more. Member organizations in the council include CSU Northridge, VSA, CSU Long Beach VSA, CSU Fullerton VSA, Cal Poly Pomona VSA, UC San Diego VSA, UC Santa Barbara VSA, UC Irvine VSA, UC Riverside VSA, University of Southern California VSA, San Diego State VSA, and Chapman University VSA
$4,845 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $526,173.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $381k to $185k (−52%).
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: 2022 3% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Thaovi Nguyen
ICC Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $113 → $139.
2 of 2 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 UNION OF THE VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOC SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’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 THE VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOC SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
100% 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 THE VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOC SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of UNION OF THE VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOC SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'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. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 UNION OF THE VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOC SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?
- UNION OF THE VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOC SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,084 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($6,487). 1 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 UNION OF THE VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOC SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,084 in grants to UNION OF THE VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOC SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNION OF THE VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOC SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,487 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNION OF THE VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOC SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 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.
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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 2022–2025), 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