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Muslim Advocates

EIN 300298794 · Washington, DC · — · multi-category

AddressPO BOX 34440, Washington, DC 20043-4440

WWW.MUSLIMADVOCATES.ORG ↗from 990 Part VI

Mission · 990 Part I
“SEE PART III, LINE 1.”

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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

$993K

Expenses

$2.7M

Net assets

$1.7M

Months of reserve?

7.8 mo

▸Additional financials & ratios

Top-officer comp

$444K

Contributions

$1.0M

Investment income

$4K

Total assets

$2.0M

Fundraising-cost ratio

5.9%

Total-comp ratio

54.8%

Liquidity (months)

7.8 mo

Investment income / rev

0.4%

Financial context tags · read alongside the org’s mission

Top-officer compensation: 44.8% 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.

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 noteworthy

Specific datapoints from Muslim Advocates'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.

Top officer compensation is a notable share of revenue
noteworthy
Top officer compensation ($253,307) is 13.4% of total revenue.
What this means
The highest-paid officer's total compensation (W-2 wages + related-org pay + other) exceeds 5% of the org's total revenue for the most recent year.
Why it matters (and what it might not mean)
5% isn't a regulatory threshold — it's a sector benchmark Ihsan Standard uses for visibility. Smaller orgs naturally trip this because a single executive salary is a bigger share of a smaller budget; large orgs with the same trip usually have a specific structural reason (a sole-paid CEO at a foundation, etc.). Worth a one-line org explanation, not necessarily concerning.
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```
{
  "officer_name": "OMAR FARAH",
  "officer_title": "EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR",
  "officer_comp": 253307,
  "total_revenue": 1891645,
  "ratio": 0.1339
}
```

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 $2.66M

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

54.8%

$1.45M

% to fundraising

6.8%

$181K

% to program & operations

38.4%

$1.02M

Total expenses

$2.66M

FY 2023

55%

38%

Compensation & benefits$1.45M · 54.8%
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.
Fundraising$181K · 6.8%
Form 990 Part IX line 11e (professional fundraising) + direct fundraising expenses. Donor acquisition, professional fundraisers, mailings.
Program & operations (other)$1.02M · 38.4%
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 · FY 2023

How many dollars of contributions the org raises for each dollar spent on fundraising. Most useful for relief / advocacy orgs whose growth depends on active solicitation.

Healthy

Return on fundraising spend

$5.76 : $1

FY 2023

YoY change

$-162.73

vs FY 2022

Every $1 of fundraising returned $5.8 in contributions.

Contributions raised · FY 2023

$1.04M

Fundraising spend · FY 2023

$181K

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↑ 17.1% YoY
$993Kprior: $848K
Δ +$145K3y CAGR -21.7%
Total revenue per Form 990 Part I line 12.
Contributions↑ 24.1% YoY
$1.04Mprior: $842K
Δ +$203K3y CAGR -20.7%
Form 990 Part I line 1h — gifts, grants, and contributions received.
Investment income↓ -32.4% YoY
$4Kprior: $6K
Δ −$2K3y CAGR +9.6%
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↓ -16.9% YoY
$2.66Mprior: $3.20M
Δ −$540K3y CAGR -0.4%
Form 990 Part I line 18 — total functional expenses.
Top-officer compensation↑ 41.5% YoY
$444Kprior: $314K
Δ +$130K3y CAGR +29.6%
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→ -0.0% YoY
$1.45Mprior: $1.45M
3y CAGR -2.1%
Officer comp + other salaries + payroll tax — total people-cost of running the org.
Net assets↓ -49.1% YoY
$1.72Mprior: $3.38M
Δ −$1.66M3y CAGR -10.8%
Form 990 Part X line 33 — assets minus liabilities at year end.
Months of reserve↓ -38.8% YoY
7.8 moprior: 12.7 mo
Δ −4.9 mo3y CAGR -10.4%
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.

1 context-only

Top-officer compensation: elevated share of revenue
44.8%Context
Top-officer comp was $444K on revenue of $993K — 44.8%.
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.

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Multi-year history

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Year	Revenue	Expenses	Net assets	Contributions	Officer/KE comp	Inv. income
2023	$993K	$2.7M	$1.7M	$1.0M	$444K	$4K
2022	$848K	$3.2M	$3.4M	$842K	$314K	$6K
2021	$7.1M	$3.4M	$5.8M	$7.0M	$177K	$15K
2020	$2.1M	$2.7M	$2.4M	$2.1M	$204K	$3K
2019	$1.7M	$3.2M	$2.7M	$1.8M	$205K	$6K
2018	$2.8M	$3.5M	$4.3M	$2.5M	$199K	$6K
2017	$5.8M	$2.5M	$4.9M	$5.8M	$180K	$2K
2016	$2.4M	$1.7M	$1.6M	$2.3M	$160K	$1K
2015	$1.7M	$1.7M	$926K	$1.7M	$141K	$708
2014	$1.5M	$1.7M	$926K	$1.5M	$142K	$757
2013	$1.5M	$1.5M	$1.1M	$1.5M	$144K	$672
2012	$1.2M	$1.0M	$1.0M	$1.3M	$118K	$576
2011	$843K	$818K	$892K	$843K	$109K	$55
2010	$476K	$775K	$867K	$478K	$101K	$0

Ethical supplier stack — not yet scanned

scan pending

We have not yet run the public-website vendor scan for Muslim Advocates. 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

6 paid · 10 unpaid board · total $1.0M

Name	Title	From org	Related orgs	Other	Total
Omar Farah	Executive Director	$222K	$0	$31K	$253K
Golnaz Fakhimi	Legal Director	$166K	$0	$24K	$190K
Kanya Shabazz	Chief Operating Off. (until 10/24)	$163K	$0	$25K	$187K
Brittany Boykin	Director Of Operations	$110K	$0	$16K	$126K
Sheiba Waheed	Sr. Policy Counsel (start 01/24)	$104K	$0	$19K	$123K
Reem Subei	Senior Staff Attorney	$104K	$0	$17K	$121K

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 2024.

Name · title	Base	Bonus	Other	Deferred	Benefits	Total (org)	Related orgs
OMAR FARAH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR	$222K	$0	$0	$16K	$15K	$253K	—
GOLNAZ FAKHIMI LEGAL DIRECTOR	$166K	$0	$0	$12K	$13K	$190K	—
KANYA SHABAZZ CHIEF OPERATING OFF. (UNTIL 10/24)	$163K	$0	$0	$12K	$13K	$187K	—

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