Visitor & International Student Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834671686
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Memphis, TN, USA
- Phone
- 9012090614
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $188,704
- Expenses
- $165,456
- Assets
- $243,050
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID FRAZIER (President)
People named in this filing
- SANDRA MCBRIDE (BOARD MEMBER)
- SONIA WAITES (BOARD MEMBER)
- TAYLOR TOLLISON (BOARD MEMBER)
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
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.
What it reported doing in 2025
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.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.3%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.47; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 56.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $165K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.