Islamic Education Center Inc
EIN 521485374 · Potomac, MD · — · masjid
Address7917 MONTROSE RD, Potomac, MD 20854-3360
Mission · 990 Part I
“THE ENTITY IS ORGANIZED FOR RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES.”
Most US masjids are not required to file Form 990
Islamic Education Center Incmay qualify under the IRS “church exemption” that relieves houses of worship from the public Form 990 filing requirement. That makes the ProPublica financial timeline here sparse by design — it is not a transparency failure. The trade-off is that masjids generally have less public transparency than 501(c)(3)s that do file 990s, so our framing for masjid pages is different:
- 1.Independent audit is the single most important signal.Donation boxes, cash collections, and weekly khutbah envelopes mean money flows that benefit from a third-party audit. We treat a recent audit as the “Gold-tier” signal for masjids — see the Attestations & Audits section below.
- 2.Ethical supplier stack still applies.Even without 990 filings, the masjid’s public website routes through analytics, payment, and hosting vendors — same lens we apply to every org.
- 3.Best-practice gaps are coachable, not punitive.Most masjids don’t have access to the CRMs, accounting software, and donor-management tooling that larger 501(c)(3)s use. The Ihsan Standard engagement track is built for exactly this — a cleanup and capacity path, not a gotcha publication.
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
- Top-officer compensation: 36.2% of revenue
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 $528KForm 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$322K · 60.9%
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)$207K · 39.1%
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
Islamic Education Center Inc reports $385K 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↓ -16.7% YoY$504Kprior: $604KΔ −$101K3y CAGR +6.6%
Total revenue per Form 990 Part I line 12.
- Contributions→ 1.7% YoY$385Kprior: $378K3y CAGR -0.3%
Form 990 Part I line 1h — gifts, grants, and contributions received.
- Investment income↑ 253.9% YoY$16Kprior: $5KΔ +$12K3y CAGR +61.9%
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↓ -6.3% YoY$528Kprior: $564KΔ −$35K3y CAGR +9.0%
Form 990 Part I line 18 — total functional expenses.
- Top-officer compensation↓ -13.8% YoY$182Kprior: $211KΔ −$29K3y CAGR +35.0%
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↓ -7.8% YoY$322Kprior: $349KΔ −$27K3y CAGR +24.3%
Officer comp + other salaries + payroll tax — total people-cost of running the org.
- Net assets↓ -3.9% YoY$609Kprior: $634KΔ −$25K3y CAGR +15.2%
Form 990 Part X line 33 — assets minus liabilities at year end.
- Months of reserve↑ 2.5% YoY13.8 moprior: 13.5 moΔ +0.3 mo3y CAGR +5.7%
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.
Financial context · plain math
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.
Top-officer compensation: elevated share of revenue
36.2%ContextTop-officer comp was $182K on revenue of $504K — 36.2%.
ContextThis is the line on Form 990 Part VII Section A that aggregates compensation for officers, directors, key employees, and the five highest-paid employees. It is NOT just the CEO. Orgs running clinics with senior medical staff (IMAN's Federally Qualified Health Center, for example), licensed professional teams, or multi-physician practices will legitimately show higher numbers here. Read the per-individual breakdown before judging.
Source: Form 990 Part VII Section A (top-officer compensation total)
See compensation history below for the per-individual breakdown →
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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Multi-year history
click to expand| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net assets | Contributions | Officer/KE comp | Inv. income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $504K | $528K | $609K | $385K | $182K | $16K |
| 2022 | $604K | $564K | $634K | $378K | $211K | $5K |
| 2021 | $731K | $536K | $593K | $699K | $264K | $3K |
| 2020 | $415K | $408K | $398K | $388K | $74K | $4K |
| 2019 | $460K | $475K | $391K | $402K | $114K | $6K |
| 2018 | $541K | $497K | $406K | $487K | $132K | $3K |
| 2017 | $371K | $549K | $363K | $309K | $90K | $564 |
| 2016 | $560K | $739K | $553K | $502K | $95K | $3 |
| 2015 | $496K | $502K | $732K | $461K | $100K | $3 |
| 2014 | $561K | $533K | $737K | $533K | $94K | $4 |
| 2013 | $542K | $553K | $709K | $499K | $89K | $5 |
| 2012 | $667K | $809K | $719K | $600K | $176K | $5 |
| 2011 | $810K | $938K | $861K | $761K | $125K | $9 |
Ethical supplier stack — not yet scanned
scan pendingWe have not yet run the public-website vendor scan for Islamic Education Center 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
2 paid · 5 unpaid board · total $182K| Name | Title | From org | Related orgs | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmad Bahriny Davarany | Resident Alim-compensation | $58K | $0 | $66K | $124K |
| Ahmad Bahriny Davarany | Sahm-al-sadat From Khoms | $58K | $0 | $0 | $58K |
Compensation detail · Schedule J
IRS Form 990 Schedule J requires officers and key employees with reportable compensation above $150,000 to break out base salary, bonuses, deferred compensation, and non-taxable benefits. From FY 2023.
| Name · title | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Benefits | Total (org) | Related orgs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AHMAD BAHRINY DAVARANY RESIDENT ALIM-COMPENSATION | $58K | $0 | $0 | $0 | $66K | $124K | — |
AHMAD BAHRINY DAVARANY SAHM-AL-SADAT FROM KHOMS | $58K | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $58K | — |
▸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.
- FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 11aFY 2023
THE TAX RETURN WAS PRESENTED BY MANAGEMENT TO THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEE AT A BOARD MEETING BEFORE FILING THE RETURN.
- FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 15FY 2023
COMPENSATION OF TOP MANAGEMENT AND KEY EMPLOYEES ARE DETERMINED BY BOARD OF TRUSTEE BASED ON QUALIFICATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND COMPARABLE MARKET DATA.
- FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION C, LINE 18FY 2023
THE ORGANIZATION MAKES ITS GOVERNING DOCUMENTS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC UPON REQUEST. THE ORGANIZATION REGULARLY POSTS ITS LATEST STATEMENT OF REVENUE AND EXPENSES TO ITS WEBSITE.