Ihsan Initiatives Nfp
EIN 931915556 · Springfield, IL · — · multi-category
Address2501 CHATHAM RD STE 8165, Springfield, IL 62704-4188
Mission · 990 Part I
“THE MISSION OF THE ORGANIZATION IS TO EMPOWER INDIVIDUALS THROUGH A COMPREHENSIVE COACHING APPROACH THAT ADDRESSES DIVERSE ASPECTS OF THEIR LIVES. THE ORGANIZATION AIMS TO OFFER PREMARITAL COACHING TO SUPPORT COUPLES IN PREPARING FOR A STRONG AND FULFILLING MARRIAGE. ADDITIONALLY, THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES MARITAL COACHING TO HELP COUPLES NAVIGATE CHALLENGES, ENHANCE COMMUNICATION, AND STRENGTHEN THEIR RELATIONSHIPS. INDIVIDUAL COACHING SERVICES ARE OFFERED TO ASSIST CLIENTS…”
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 $52KForm 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.
- Program & operations (other)$52K · 100.0%
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
Ihsan Initiatives Nfp reports $57K 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.
Items worth a closer look
Automated checks across Form 990 Part IX and Part VII Section B. We publish the math and the source; we do not adjudicate intent. Many of these have legitimate explanations specific to the org’s mission — read each card’s context note before forming a judgment. The org has full right of reply.
Thin operating reserve
1.1 moNotableMonths of reserve in FY 2023: 1.1. Best-practice nonprofit governance treats 3 months as the lower bound, 6–12 months as a healthy range.
ContextThin reserves make orgs fragile to a single bad fundraising year. Pass-through grant-makers and acute-relief orgs sometimes run this tight by design.
Source: Net assets ÷ (total expenses ÷ 12)
Engagement-track path:if a specific explanation fits the org (new-org ramp, capital campaign, FQHC medical-staff payroll, multi-year grant schedule), the org can sign in, attach the supporting filing detail, and a contextual note will publish alongside the relevant card. The numbers stay — the reader gets the reasoning.
▸Multi-year history
click to expand
Multi-year history
click to expand| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net assets | Contributions | Officer/KE comp | Inv. income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $57K | $52K | $5K | $57K | $0 | $0 |
Ethical supplier stack — not yet scanned
scan pendingWe have not yet run the public-website vendor scan for Ihsan Initiatives Nfp. 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 · 2 filings 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 2024
2 paid · 1 unpaid board · total $42K| Name | Title | From org | Related orgs | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farhan Ahmed | President | $40K | $0 | $0 | $40K |
| Zeshan Ahmed | Secretary | $2K | $0 | $0 | $2K |
▸Verticals · detected automatically
click to expand
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.
- FORM 990 - ORGANIZATION'S MISSIONFY 2024
THE MISSION OF THE ORGANIZATION IS TO EMPOWER INDIVIDUALS THROUGH A COMPREHENSIVE COACHING APPROACH THAT ADDRESSES DIVERSE ASPECTS OF THEIR LIVES. THE ORGANIZATION AIMS TO OFFER PREMARITAL COACHING TO SUPPORT COUPLES IN PREPARING FOR A STRONG AND FULFILLING MARRIAGE. ADDITIONALLY, THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES MARITAL COACHING TO HELP COUPLES NAVIGATE CHALLENGES, ENHANCE COMMUNICATION, AND STRENGTHEN THEIR RELATIONSHIPS. INDIVIDUAL COACHING SERVICES ARE OFFERED TO ASSIST CLIENTS IN ADDRESSING PERSONAL OBSTACLES AND FOSTERING PERSONAL GROWTH. MOREOVER, RELIGIOUS CONSULTATIONS ARE PROVIDED, EMPHASIZING SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING AND ALIGNING INDIVIDUALS' COACHING JOURNEYS WITH THEIR FAITH.
- FORM 990, PAGE 6, PART VI, LINE 11BFY 2024
990 IS REVIEWED BY THE PRESIDENT AND COPIES ARE PROVIDED TO THE BOARD FOR THEIR REVIEW BEFORE FILING.
- FORM 990, PAGE 6, PART VI, LINE 19FY 2024
DOCUMENTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC REVIEW UPON REQUEST.