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Dawat E Islami Usa Inc

EIN 464451777 · Chicago, IL · — · multi-category

Address6821 N WESTERN AVE, Chicago, IL 60645-4708

N/A ↗from 990 Part VI

Mission · 990 Part I
“TO ORGANIZE EDUCATIONAL AND PRAYER SESSIONS FOR THE TEACHING OF THE ISLAMIC FAITH AND MANNERS.”

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Most recent filing on fileFY 2023

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.

Revenue

$2.4M

Expenses

$2.5M

Net assets

$4.3M

Months of reserve?

20.2 mo

▸Additional financials & ratios

Top-officer comp

Contributions

$2.4M

Investment income

$20K

Total assets

$4.4M

Fundraising-cost ratio

0.0%

Total-comp ratio

17.2%

Liquidity (months)

20.2 mo

Investment income / rev

0.8%

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.

Completed

0 / 12

0 ★ Gold

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

Filing observations & context

1 indicative

Specific datapoints from Dawat E Islami Usa Inc's most recent IRS Form 990 that warrant a closer look. Each item is computed directly from the org's own public filing — we explain what the datapoint is, what it might mean, and the legitimate reasons it could be present. Read these as context, not conclusions.

Elevated reserves relative to annual expenses
indicative
Net assets equal 20.2 months of operating expenses (>18mo threshold).
What this means
Net assets at year-end equal more than 18 months of operating expenses (i.e. the org could run its current programs for over a year and a half without any new revenue).
Why it matters (and what it might not mean)
Many nonprofits — particularly endowments, scholarship funds, and orgs with donor-restricted balances — legitimately hold reserves above 18 months. The flag isn't an accusation; it's a prompt to read the org's reserves policy, which should be public for any org sitting on this much liquidity.
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  "net_assets": 4280405,
  "annual_expenses": 2539389,
  "months_of_reserve": 20.2
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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 $2.54M

Form 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.

% to compensation

17.2%

$436K

% to fundraising

0.0%

% to program & operations

82.8%

$2.10M

Total expenses

$2.54M

FY 2023

17%

83%

Compensation & benefits$436K · 17.2%
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)$2.10M · 82.8%
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

Dawat E Islami Usa Inc reports $2.41M 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-up

Per-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→ -1.5% YoY
$2.43Mprior: $2.47M
3y CAGR +5.0%
Total revenue per Form 990 Part I line 12.
Contributions↓ -2.2% YoY
$2.41Mprior: $2.46M
Δ −$55K3y CAGR +5.3%
Form 990 Part I line 1h — gifts, grants, and contributions received.
Investment income↑ 672.8% YoY
$20Kprior: $3K
Δ +$17K3y CAGR +345.9%
Form 990 Part VIII line 4 — interest, dividends, and other investment earnings on the org's reserve. For orgs with material reserves, a healthy investment-income trend indicates capital is actually working; near-zero income on a large reserve raises the 'idle capital' question.
Total expenses↑ 123.3% YoY
$2.54Mprior: $1.14M
Δ +$1.40M3y CAGR +9.5%
Form 990 Part I line 18 — total functional expenses.
Total compensation & benefits↑ 20.2% YoY
$436Kprior: $363K
Δ +$73K3y CAGR +24.8%
Officer comp + other salaries + payroll tax — total people-cost of running the org.
Net assets↓ -2.5% YoY
$4.28Mprior: $4.39M
Δ −$110K3y CAGR +33.3%
Form 990 Part X line 33 — assets minus liabilities at year end.
Months of reserve↓ -56.3% YoY
20.2 moprior: 46.3 mo
Δ −26.1 mo3y CAGR +21.7%
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.

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Multi-year history

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Year	Revenue	Expenses	Net assets	Contributions	Officer/KE comp	Inv. income
2023	$2.4M	$2.5M	$4.3M	$2.4M	$0	$20K
2022	$2.5M	$1.1M	$4.4M	$2.5M	$0	$3K
2021	$2.2M	$935K	$3.1M	$2.2M	$0	$183
2020	$2.1M	$1.9M	$1.8M	$2.1M	$0	$223
2019	$1.3M	$595K	$1.6M	$1.3M	$0	$113
2018	$1.1M	$769K	$901K	$1.1M	$0	$34
2017	$840K	$579K	$551K	$840K	$0	$1
2016	$794K	$682K	$290K	$794K	$0	$1
2015	$530K	$524K	$178K	$530K	$0	$1
2014	$516K	$344K	$173K	$516K	$0	$1

Ethical supplier stack — not yet scanned

scan pending

We have not yet run the public-website vendor scan for Dawat E Islami Usa Inc. 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.

FY 2023: no paid officers reported in this filing (5 unpaid board members on record).

Grants made · Schedule I

The organizations and people Dawat E Islami Usa Inc re-granted money to, as reported on IRS Form 990 Schedule I. Total disbursed across these6 grants: $1.7M.

Recipient	Amount	Purpose	Year
DAWAT-E-ISLAMI INC (NY) EIN 274212324	$850K	—	2023
DAWAT-E-ISLAMI INC EIN 030431373	$481K	—	2023
DAWAT-E-ISLAMI INC EIN 464207799	$250K	—	2023
DAR-UL-MADINAH INC EIN 811408754	$85K	—	2023
DAWAT-E-ISLAMI INCFAIZAN-E-MADINA EIN 453444577	$50K	—	2023
DAWAT-E-ISLAMI INC EIN 273363764	$22K	—	2023

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Verticals · detected automatically

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Signals 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.

· Public zakat policy · Scholar board listed publicly · Accepts appreciated stock · Accepts DAF gifts · Accepts crypto · Endowment or waqf · Estate & wasiyya (planned giving)· Corporate matching program · Form 990 linked from website

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.

FORM 990, PART III
FY 2023
LINE 1, DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION MISSION: TO PROPAGATE THE TEACHINGS OF THE HOLY QURAN AND THE SUNNAH OF THE HOLY PROPHET MUHAMMAD (PEACE BE UPON HIM) INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE FOLLOWING: TO FACILITATE ISLAMIC PRAYERS AND LEARNING THROUGH TELEVISION, ELECTRONIC MEDIA AND INTERNET OR PRINT MEDIUMS; ORGANIZE EDUCATIONAL AND PRAYER SESSIONS FOR THE TEACHING OF THE HOLY QURAN AND SUNNAH; TO ARRANGE FOR RELIGIOUS SCHOLARS TO VISIT AND ADDRESSS MUSLIM CONGREGATIONS AND LEAD ISLAMIC SERVICES; TO DISTRIBUTE RELIGIOUS LITERATURES TO VARIOUS MUSLIM CONGREGATIONS; TO PROMOTE, STRENGTHEN AND DEVELOP THE BONDS OF FRIENDSHIP, BROTHERHOOD AND SISTERHOOD THAT SHOULD EXIST AMONG THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY.
FORM 990, PAGE 2, PART III, LINE 4D
FY 2023
ALL DONATIONS ARE RECEIVED BY THE PUBLIC AND USED TO SUPPORT THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES: BROADCASTING OF AN ISLAMIC TV CHANNEL, FACILIATION OF ROAMING MUSLIM MISSIONARIES, MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES, ORGANIZATION OF CONGREGATIONS, AND OPERATING ACTIVITIES.
FORM 990, PAGE 6, PART VI, LINE 11B
FY 2023
TAXPAYER ESTABLISHED THE NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION IN THE YEAR 2013, THERE ARE ESTABLISHED PROCEDURES OR DOCUMENTATION FOR DISTRIBUTION NON-FILED COPIES OF THE FORM 990 TO ITS GOVERNING MEMBERS.