Atlanta Ministry With International Students Inc Aka AMIS Atlanta

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
581456544
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Atlanta, GA, USA
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$135,723
Expenses
$144,236
Assets
$243,012
Liabilities
$95

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Rev Irene Wong (Executive Director - Past)
  • Camille Kesler (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Rev Irene Wong (Executive Director - Past)
  • Camille Kesler (Executive Director)
  • Zebekiah Bortner (Chairman)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

AMIS promotes cultural and global understanding through friendship and hospitality with international college and graduate students and scholars in the greater Atlanta area. We WELCOME international students and CONNECT them with local FRIENDS in the community through our Amigo Friendship program an Annual Welcome Reception and events to help international students learn more about our city exchange cultural traditions and celebrate holidays. Our vision is to create a more peaceful welcoming and connected world through international friendship.

What it reported doing in 2025

Events for International Students: In 2025 we hosted 22 in-person events for international students. Some events were social offering food and opportunities to meet other international students and local Americans. Others were opportunities to learn about our city like a visit to Dr. Martin Luther Kings historic site. Other events were held to share holiday traditions with international students around Thanksgiving and Christmas. In 2025 AMIS served over 600 international students from over 80 different countries who are students at Georgia Tech Emory Georgia State Oglethorpe Spelman Beulah Heights and others. In addition 160 volunteers participated in these events.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83.2%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 72.7%; rating input score 73

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -6.3%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.68; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 37.3%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 83.2% of revenue deployed · 72.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $105K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.