Vietnamese American Organization - Vao
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834209351
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4088001230
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,737
- Expenses
- $99,412
- Assets
- $91,068
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Quyen Mai (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Quyen Mai (Executive Director)
- Dat Nguyen (Boardmember)
- Tracy Nguyen (Boardmember)
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
VAO | Vietnamese American Organization's mission is to empower individuals to actively engage, learn, and take the lead in strengthening the local community through social service, education, leadership, and cultural activities, all while steadfastly promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are dedicated to providing comprehensive support and resources that uplift individuals, families, and the community as a whole. Our programs and services aim to promote learning, personal growth, and the development of leadership skills. Additionally, we celebrate and honor the rich cultural diversity within our community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community Outreach & Engagement - Through community outreach and engagement programs, our platform is structured to achieve our objectives by establishing the necessary infrastructure to stabilize our operations. Moreover, we aim to broaden avenues for community engagement through outreach initiatives and expand opportunities for community involvement. VAO also offers a range of services to help organizations and agencies achieve their goals and deliverables. One of our core strengths lies in community engagement, outreach, and participant recruitment. By leveraging our expertise and resources, we can assist organizations and agencies in connecting with the Vietnamese community and recruiting participants for various programs and initiatives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.4%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 55.1%; rating input score 55
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -78.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 50% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.4% of revenue deployed · 55.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 16 filed program accomplishments · $55K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.