Building Blocks Of Islam
EIN 205035650 · Columbia Heights, MN · — · multi-category
Address3900 JACKSON STREET NE, Columbia Heights, MN 55421-3981
Mission · 990 Part I
“BUIDING BLOCKS OFFERS A PLATFORM FOR CONCERNED MUSLIMS TO WORK TOGETHER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE COMMUNITYS WELFARE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL, AND SOCIAL SERVICES TO BUILD BRIDGES OF MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING WITH OTHER COMMUNITIES.”
The IRS Form 990 for FY 2024 is due ~Nov 15 of the year after the fiscal close, followed by 3–6 months of IRS processing and 6–12 months before the cleaned data is published. FY 2024 should begin appearing here around mid-to-late 2025. A gap between today and the latest filing does not mean the org hasn't filed.
▸Additional financials & ratios
Attestations & Audits
Org-supplied disclosures that have been verified by the Ihsan Standard Editorial Council. Every standard has a Gold tier (★) reached via an Ihsan Standard or accepted third-party audit. An empty section means the org has not yet filled it in — not that they fail the standard.
- Zakat methodology disclosurenot yet attested
- Zakāt al-Fitr timeline commitmentnot yet attested
- Qurbānī / Udhiya timeline enforcementnot yet attested
- Kaffāra fulfillment commitmentnot yet attested
- Annual zakat distribution reportnot yet attested
- Orphan-fund segregation (Qurʾānic amāna)not yet attested
- Restricted-purpose fund segregation (honoring the amāna)not yet attested
- Per-donation tracking & fulfillmentnot yet attested
- Supplier-stack cleanup plan filednot yet attested
- Full supplier-stack audit completednot yet attested
- Taʿāwun Procurement Audit — Muslim community vendor pledgenot yet attested
- Khulafāʾ al-Arḍ Environmental Stewardship Auditnot yet attested
Where the money went · FY 2023
Form 990 Part IX (Statement of Functional Expenses) split into the four functional buckets, plus automated anomaly detection across the most-asked donor questions.
Expense breakdown · FY 2023
Total $416KForm 990 Part IX line items we have on file for this filing (compensation totals + fundraising lines). The full functional-expense col-A/B/C/D split (grants, program, admin, fundraising) was not in the structured extract — the residual sits in “Program & operations” below. Reading note: compensation is NOT the same as “admin overhead” — for orgs running clinics (like IMAN’s FQHC), schools, or in-house programs, most of compensation is program work.
- Compensation & benefits$98K · 23.6%
Form 990 Part IX lines 5–10 — total staff compensation: salaries & wages, payroll taxes, and benefits across everyone the org pays (program, clinical, and support staff), plus any pay to officers, directors, and key employees. The per-person split — including which officers, if any, are paid — is in the Compensation history section below. For orgs running clinics, schools, or in-house programs, most of this is program work, not admin.
- Program & operations (other)$318K · 76.4%
Total expenses minus compensation and fundraising — the residual covering program supplies, occupancy & utilities, professional fees, beneficiary services, medical supplies (for clinics), travel, equipment, and depreciation. ProPublica's structured extract did not include the Part IX functional split for this filing year; the breakdown PDF reconciles which specific lines went where.
Fundraising efficacy · not the primary lens for this org
Building Blocks Of Islam reports $353K in contributions on only $0 of fundraising spend — a ratio that suggests this org isn't fundraising-driven in the conventional sense. The Form 990 “fundraising expense” line item is meant to capture solicitation costs (telemarketing, direct mail, digital ad spend); for universities, masjids, foundations, and orgs primarily supported by major gifts or program revenue, that line is small or zero, and the resulting “ratio” reads as meaningless.
The right operational-efficiency lens for an org like this is reserves, payroll composition, and program-expense ratio — see the financial-anomalies section and the multi-year trend dashboard.
Year-over-year trends · through FY 2023
Arrow color = direction × good-when-upPer-metric direction and magnitude vs. the prior fiscal year. Where the data goes back far enough, the 3-year compound annual growth rate is included — useful for separating one-off spikes from sustained trends.
- Revenue↑ 23.1% YoY$370Kprior: $301KΔ +$69K3y CAGR -12.4%
Total revenue per Form 990 Part I line 12.
- Contributions↑ 18.2% YoY$353Kprior: $299KΔ +$54K3y CAGR -13.6%
Form 990 Part I line 1h — gifts, grants, and contributions received.
- Total expenses↓ -23.2% YoY$416Kprior: $542KΔ −$126K3y CAGR -1.8%
Form 990 Part I line 18 — total functional expenses.
- Total compensation & benefits↑ 78.2% YoY$98Kprior: $55KΔ +$43K3y CAGR +22.0%
Officer comp + other salaries + payroll tax — total people-cost of running the org.
- Net assets↓ -18.5% YoY$143Kprior: $175KΔ −$32K3y CAGR -26.6%
Form 990 Part X line 33 — assets minus liabilities at year end.
- Months of reserve↑ 6.2% YoY4.1 moprior: 3.9 moΔ +0.2 mo3y CAGR -25.2%
Net assets ÷ (annual expenses ÷ 12). The trend matters more than the absolute number: a falling reserve year-over-year is the early warning sign of fragility, even if it's still above the 3-month floor.
No financial anomalies surfaced
For the most recent fiscal year on file, the automated checks (fundraising-cost ratio, single-contractor concentration, reserve adequacy, officer-comp share) did not flag anything. This is the default state for most orgs and is meaningful — it means the math on Form 990 Part IX and Part VII Section B doesn’t require an explanation.
▸Multi-year history
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Multi-year history
click to expand| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net assets | Contributions | Officer/KE comp | Inv. income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $370K | $416K | $143K | $353K | $0 | $0 |
| 2022 | $301K | $542K | $175K | $299K | $0 | $0 |
| 2021 | $118K | $342K | $382K | $118K | $0 | $0 |
| 2020 | $550K | $439K | $360K | $547K | $0 | $0 |
| 2018 | $463K | $311K | $233K | $448K | $0 | $0 |
| 2017 | $358K | $425K | $81K | $335K | $0 | $0 |
| 2016 | $341K | $372K | $147K | $317K | $0 | $0 |
| 2014 | $260K | $286K | $148K | $249K | $0 | $0 |
| 2013 | $233K | $272K | $173K | $213K | $0 | $0 |
| 2012 | $257K | $201K | $217K | $234K | $0 | $0 |
| 2011 | $226K | $185K | $161K | $214K | $0 | $0 |
| 2010 | $237K | $194K | $120K | $218K | $0 | $0 |
Ethical supplier stack — not yet scanned
scan pendingWe have not yet run the public-website vendor scan for Building Blocks Of Islam. A blank section here is not evidence of a clean supplier stack — it means we don’t have data yet.
Coverage as of today: ~6 / 1,917 cohort orgs scanned. The Ihsan Standard rendered-site scanner is being rolled out across the cohort; the Supplier-Stack Audit (engagement track) covers vendors that don’t appear in public HTML at all (CRM, accounting, ad-tech back-office).
Compensation history
Form 990 Part VII Section A · 1 filing on record
Every officer, director, key employee, and highest-compensated employee with reported pay. Recent year is shown by default — switch tabs for prior years or the unique-people roll-up.
▸Verticals · detected automatically
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Verticals · detected automatically
click to expandSignals automatically extracted from public website data on the org's site— please verify against the source link before relying on any single tag. “Unknown” means no evidence was found, not that the org doesn’t offer it.
In their own words · Schedule O
Supplemental narratives the org wrote on IRS Form 990 Schedule O — program-activity descriptions, governance explanations, and answers to specific 990 line items. Useful primary-source context that doesn’t fit into the structured fields elsewhere on this page.
- Officer directors etc family relationship Part VI line 2FY 2023
FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION A, LINE 2: IBRAHIM HAFIDH AND AYISHA YAHYA ARE HUSBAND AND WIFE. OBAID ZAFAR AND HINA SIDDIQUI ARE HUSBAND AND WIFE.
- Member election for additional members Part VI line 7aFY 2023
THE ORGANIZATION COMPRISES OF SEVERAL COMMITTEES. COMMITTEE COORDINATORS BECOME PART OF THE ORGANIZATIONS EXECUTIVE BOARD. COMMITTEE COORDINATORS SHALL BE ELECTED BY THE RESPECTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS. THE COMMITTEES MEMBERS ARE MOSTLY VOLUNTEERS WHO CARRY OUT THE COMMITTEES MISSION THROUGH VARIOUS PROJECTS THAT SERVE THE COMMUNITY. THERE IS NO CLASS AS SUCH AMONGST THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS THAT DIFFERENTIATES THEM BY THE NATURE OF THEIR RIGHTS. ALL OF THEM HAVE THE SAME VOTING RIGHTS.
- Governing body decisions Part VI line 7bFY 2023
THE DISSSOLUTION OF THE ORGANIZATION SHALL BE DECIDED BY MEETING OF THE OFFICERS. THE 2/3 MAJORITY OF ALL THE OFFICERS SHALL BE REQUIRED FOR THE ADOPTION OF SUCH RESOLUTION.