Tennessee · Nonprofit
VISITOR & INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC
VISITOR & INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,060 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($170,750). 3 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
- $189k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $251k
- Net assets
- $243k
What Visitor & International Student Association Inc does
Mission
Visitor & international student association is a public benefit corporation that aims to create a supportive environment for international students studying in memphis, tn. Moving to a new country can be an isolating experience because students are disconnected from their culture, language, family, traditions, and food. This often results in an overwhelming sense of loneliness and exclusion for the students. Our community is designed to do an excellent job of welcoming them to our city by providing support and a sense of belonging. We achieve this by organizing a range of events and activities, such as welcoming events, dinner gatherings, weekend trips, and offering practical assistance like helping students obtain driver's licenses, grocery shopping, vehicle purchases, and networking to find employment opportunities. Through our efforts, we aim to build a thriving community and serve as a "home away from home" for international students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We hosted programs that are designed to welcome international students into our community, and provide a home away from home for them. We attended the new student orientations at the university and also picked up students from the airport who were first arriving in memphis from their country. So, our volunteers were able to be one of the first smiling faces to welcome new international students to the united states! We also hosted several events in american homes(such as international culture night, and special holday celebrations). And we organized an all day city-wide scavenger hunt as a way to get students connected to our community and discover the city.
$165,456 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $165,456.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $137k to $182k (+33%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $37k → $59k.
4 of 4 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 VISITOR & INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC’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
VISITOR & INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 VISITOR & INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 73% · 2021 100% · 2022 64% · 2023 64% — 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
100% of VISITOR & INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC'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. $251k 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.
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In Tennessee
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VISITOR & INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC: 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 VISITOR & INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC?
- VISITOR & INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,060 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($170,750). 3 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 VISITOR & INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $251,060 in grants to VISITOR & INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VISITOR & INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $170,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VISITOR & INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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