Vitiligo Support International Inc
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Vitiligo Support International, Inc. (VSI) is a community organization, committed to supporting those with vitiligo by providing current information; raising awareness; promoting research, improved clinical care and treatments; and working towards comprehensive insurance coverage, until a cure is found.
- Income
- $106,574
- Spending
- $58,403
- Reserves
- 64.8 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 70%
- Highest pay
- $41,500, executive director
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Strong: 100 out of 100. Higher than 82% of charities in its peer group (diseases, under $250k).
Reserves
35 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 64.8 months of spending.
Debt
20 of 20It owes 4% of what it owns.
Living within its means
15 of 15Income exceeded spending by 45% of income.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- $43,741 spent. VSI is a patient-driven organization, offering the broadest level of personal, educational, and emotional support to the vitiligo community. It responds annually to thousands of inquiries received by telephone, letter, email, and through its member forums and social media. VSI is committed to meet these requests by providing unbiased, current, accurate, and relevant information to patients, family, friends, physicians, and media. VSI has over 60,000 registered members and connects annually with over a million website visitors from 200+ countries. VSI's quarterly e-newsletters are the only patient resource of its kind. Each edition delivers the most current information available to our worldwide circulation of around 35,000 subscribers. In addition, VSI promotes congressional and public awareness of the need for increased funding for vitiligo research and better access to treatments. It partners with primary skin disease research and patient organizations to connect with healthcare providers, researchers, and public policy leaders. As a patient organization member of a collaboration of leading clinicians and researchers dedicated to the development of a funding stream for vitiligo research, a better understanding of the patients' point of view, and improvement of the quality of life for those affected by vitiligo, VSI represents the patients' perspective so that patients have a voice in improving clinical care and research guidelines. VSI also routinely assists scientists and clinicians with their recruitment efforts for clinical trials, surveys, and studies by publishing notices in its newsletters, website, and social media. It also serves in an advisory capacity to industry seeking to understand the needs and perspective of the vitiligo community.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since May 2004.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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