Texas · Nonprofit
Vietnamese Culture & Science Association
Vietnamese Culture & Science Association (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $477,749 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($250,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $235k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $478k
- Net assets
- $360k
What Vietnamese Culture & Science Association does
Mission
The Vietnamese Culture & Science Association (VCSA) promotes excellence in education, leadership and skills development through culture and science. We encourage multigenerational and cross-cultural collaborations and civic participation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
VCSA Viet Cultural Fest is a cultural festival aimed to preserve and further promote the beauty of Vietnamese culture to the community and establish an annual tradition attracting people from all cultures, backgrounds, and ages in Houston and its vicinities while celebrating the rich diversity of Houston. The attendess are usually around 7,000 people.
$158,590 spent$187,403 earned by the program87% of program spendingVCSA Annual Youth Excellence Recognition Luncheon is held on August to honor local area high school students who graduated as Valdictorians or Salutatorians for their senior graduating class. The purpose of the program is to promote excellence in education among high school students. Since its founding in 1997, the activity has impacted over 750 scholars who have become successful in multiple fields.
$23,016 spent$24,232 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $181,606.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $96k to $365k (+282%).
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: 2019 17% · 2020 46% · 2021 62% · 2022 102% · 2023 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of Vietnamese Culture & Science Association’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $17k → $675.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Vietnamese Culture & Science Association’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
Vietnamese Culture & Science Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
42% 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 Vietnamese Culture & Science Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 68% · 2019 93% · 2020 98% · 2021 63% · 2022 89% · 2023 74% — 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of Vietnamese Culture & Science Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
97% of Vietnamese Culture & Science Association's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Vietnamese Culture & Science Association holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Vietnamese Culture & Science Association
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Vietnamese Culture & Science Association: 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 Vietnamese Culture & Science Association?
- Vietnamese Culture & Science Association (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $477,749 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($250,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Vietnamese Culture & Science Association have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $477,749 in grants to Vietnamese Culture & Science Association, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Vietnamese Culture & Science Association?
- HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Vietnamese Culture & Science Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 12 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