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International Institute Of Islamic Thought

EIN 232202414 · Herndon, VA · · education-research

Address500 GROVE ST STE 200, Herndon, VA 20170-4793

WWW.IIIT.ORGfrom 990 Part VI

Mission · 990 Part I
IIIT'S MISSION IS TO CONDUCT AND DISSEMINATE EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH TO EMPOWER MUSLIM SOCIETIES WITH DATA-DRIVEN RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION POLICY AND PRACTICE. IIIT IS A CENTER OF EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND ISLAMIC THOUGHT WHOSE MAIN INTEREST IS ON CARRYING OUT EVIDENCE-BASED RESEARCH IN ADVANCING EDUCATION IN MUSLIM SOCIETIES AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THIS RESEARCH THROUGH PUBLICATION AND TRANSLATION, TEACHING, POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS, AND STRATEGI…

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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
$9.0M
Expenses
$9.9M
Net assets
$-23497
Months of reserve?
-0.0 mo
Additional financials & ratios
Top-officer comp
$0
Contributions
$8.9M
Investment income
$0
Total assets
$552K
Fundraising-cost ratio
0.0%
Total-comp ratio
16.6%
Liquidity (months)
0.0 mo
Investment income / rev
0.0%

Attestations & Audits

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  • 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 $9.92M

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
16.6%
$1.64M
% to fundraising
0.0%
$0
% to program & operations
83.4%
$8.28M
Total expenses
$9.92M
FY 2023
17%
83%
  • Compensation & benefits$1.64M · 16.6%

    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)$8.28M · 83.4%

    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

International Institute Of Islamic Thought reports $8.93M 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 -45.2% YoY
    $8.96Mprior: $16.36M
    Δ $7.40M3y CAGR -13.3%

    Total revenue per Form 990 Part I line 12.

  • Contributions -45.3% YoY
    $8.93Mprior: $16.32M
    Δ $7.39M3y CAGR -13.3%

    Form 990 Part I line 1h — gifts, grants, and contributions received.

  • Investment income -100.0% YoY
    $0prior: $5K
    Δ $5K

    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 -37.1% YoY
    $9.92Mprior: $15.76M
    Δ $5.84M3y CAGR -7.3%

    Form 990 Part I line 18 — total functional expenses.

  • Top-officer compensation n/a
    $0prior: $0

    Form 990 Part IX line 5 — aggregate compensation for officers, directors, key employees, and the five highest-paid employees. Growing in line with revenue is expected for healthy orgs; growing faster than revenue is the question worth asking.

  • Total compensation & benefits 64.3% YoY
    $1.64Mprior: $999K
    Δ +$642K3y CAGR +3.5%

    Officer comp + other salaries + payroll tax — total people-cost of running the org.

  • Net assets -102.5% YoY
    -$23Kprior: $934K
    Δ $958K

    Form 990 Part X line 33 — assets minus liabilities at year end.

  • Months of reserve -104.0% YoY
    -0.0 moprior: 0.7 mo
    Δ 0.7 mo

    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.

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.

1 notable
  • Thin operating reserve

    -0.0 moNotable

    Months of reserve in FY 2023: -0.0. 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

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YearRevenueExpensesNet assetsContributionsOfficer/KE compInv. income
2023$9.0M$9.9M$-23497$8.9M$0$0
2022$16.4M$15.8M$934K$16.3M$0$5K
2021$10.1M$15.0M$-58061$10.1M$0$182
2020$13.7M$12.5M$4.9M$13.7M$450K$1
2019$15.3M$13.2M$3.0M$15.2M$210K$4
2018$9.3M$8.9M$896K$9.2M$506K$0
2017$8.1M$8.1M$972K$8.1M$556K$0
2016$7.6M$7.1M$936K$7.5M$402K$0
2015$6.4M$6.2M$708K$6.4M$387K$0
2014$14.1M$14.1M$751K$14.1M$0$0
2013$5.5M$4.1M$1.0M$5.4M$0$0
2012$5.1M$5.1M$152K$5.0M$0$2
2011$4.4M$4.3M$408K$4.4M$0$19
2010$3.0M$3.2M$468K$2.9M$188K$21

Ethical supplier stack — not yet scanned

scan pending

We have not yet run the public-website vendor scan for International Institute Of Islamic Thought. 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 2023: no paid officers reported in this filing (9 unpaid board members on record).

Grants made · Schedule I

The organizations and people International Institute Of Islamic Thought re-granted money to, as reported on IRS Form 990 Schedule I. Total disbursed across these10 grants: $3.2M.

RecipientAmountPurposeYear
YORK FOUNDATION
EIN 311621645
$3.0MPROGRAM ASSISTANCE - EDUCATIONAL/SOCIAL SERVICES2023
DIYANET CENTER OF AMERICA
EIN 521827831
$50KPROGRAM ASSISTANCE - EDUCATIONAL/SOCIAL SERVICES2023
AL FAITH ACADEMY
EIN 541981912
$25KPROGRAM ASSISTANCE - EDUCATIONAL/SOCIAL SERVICES2023
MERCY WITHOUT LIMITS
EIN 455297608
$25KPROGRAM ASSISTANCE - EDUCATIONAL/SOCIAL SERVICES2023
ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA
EIN 311054012
$24KPROGRAM ASSISTANCE - EDUCATIONAL/SOCIAL SERVICES2023
ADAM CENTER
EIN 461959130
$10KPROGRAM ASSISTANCE - EDUCATIONAL/SOCIAL SERVICES2023
MEDINA MONTESSORI
EIN 825148841
$10KPROGRAM ASSISTANCE - EDUCATIONAL/SOCIAL SERVICES2023
GREATER HERNDON FOP 64
EIN 541690332
$8KPROGRAM ASSISTANCE - EDUCATIONAL/SOCIAL SERVICES2023
ASSOCIATION OF MUSLIM CHAPLAINS
EIN 454674951
$8KPROGRAM ASSISTANCE - EDUCATIONAL/SOCIAL SERVICES2023
WHYISLAM ORG
EIN 263583250
$8KPROGRAM ASSISTANCE - EDUCATIONAL/SOCIAL SERVICES2023

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.

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 VI, SECTION A, LINE 2
    FY 2023

    DR. HISHAM ALTALIB AND DR. AHMAD TOTONJI ARE BROTHERS-IN-LAW. DR. AHMED ALWANI IS SON-IN-LAW OF DR. AHMAD TOTONJI.

  • FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION A, LINE 8B
    FY 2023

    THE ORGANIZATION HAS NO COMMITTEES EMPOWERED TO ACT ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNING BODY.

  • FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 11B
    FY 2023

    THE PREPARER CONFERS WITH THE BOARD AND MANAGEMENT AS NECESSARY. WHEN FINALIZED, THE RETURN IS PRESENTED TO THE MANAGEMENT AND A BOARD MEMBER FOR SIGNATURE. QUESTIONS AND REVISIONS, IF NECESSARY, ARE ADDRESSED PRIOR TO FINAL FILING.

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