Muslim Aid America
EIN 462504422 · Mclean, VA · — · national-relief
Address1660 INTERNATIONAL DR STE 600, Mclean, VA 22102-4877
Mission · 990 Part I
“PROVIDE HELP TO PEOPLE WHO ARE VICTIMS OF NATURAL DISASTERS OR CONFLICTS OR SUFFERING FROM POVERTY, HUNGER, DISEASE, ILLITERACY, DISCRIMINATION, HOMELESSNESS, DEBT, UNEMPLOYMENT, INJUSTICE, OR LACK OF SKILLS OR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY.”
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.
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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
Filing observations & context
1 noteworthySpecific datapoints from Muslim Aid America'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.
- Most noncash contributions come from a single categorynoteworthy
100% of noncash contributions ($14,535,607 of $14,535,607) come from a single category: DrugsAndMedicalSupplies.
What this meansSchedule M lists noncash contributions broken into categories (medical supplies, food, vehicles, securities, real estate, etc.). For this org, more than 70% of total noncash dollars come from a single category.
Why it matters (and what it might not mean)Concentration is normal for orgs with a specific donation-channel partnership (e.g. a medical-supply charity primarily receives medical supplies). It's worth checking because the valuation methodology for noncash gifts varies widely by category, and a single dominant category amplifies any valuation-method choice into the org's overall reported revenue.
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{ "category": "DrugsAndMedicalSupplies", "category_amount": 14535607, "total_noncash": 14535607, "valuation_method": "FAIR MARKET VALUE", "contributions_count": 1 }
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 $25.78MForm 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$888K · 3.4%
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$225K · 0.9%
Form 990 Part IX line 11e (professional fundraising) + direct fundraising expenses. Donor acquisition, professional fundraisers, mailings.
- Program & operations (other)$24.67M · 95.7%
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
Muslim Aid America reports $26.39M in contributions on only $225K of fundraising spend (117 : 1) — 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↑ 69.5% YoY$26.18Mprior: $15.45MΔ +$10.73M3y CAGR +36.6%
Total revenue per Form 990 Part I line 12.
- Contributions↑ 71.0% YoY$26.39Mprior: $15.44MΔ +$10.96M3y CAGR +37.1%
Form 990 Part I line 1h — gifts, grants, and contributions received.
- Investment income↑ 4.9% YoY$11Kprior: $11KΔ +$525
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↑ 74.4% YoY$25.78Mprior: $14.78MΔ +$11.00M3y CAGR +39.2%
Form 990 Part I line 18 — total functional expenses.
- Top-officer compensation↑ 19.0% YoY$150Kprior: $126KΔ +$24K3y CAGR +14.3%
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↑ 88.6% YoY$888Kprior: $471KΔ +$417K3y CAGR +35.7%
Officer comp + other salaries + payroll tax — total people-cost of running the org.
- Net assets↑ 10.5% YoY$4.41Mprior: $3.99MΔ +$420K3y CAGR +54.5%
Form 990 Part X line 33 — assets minus liabilities at year end.
- Months of reserve↓ -36.6% YoY2.1 moprior: 3.2 moΔ −1.2 mo3y CAGR +11.0%
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.
Thin operating reserve
2.1 moNotableMonths of reserve in FY 2023: 2.1. 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
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Multi-year history
click to expand| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net assets | Contributions | Officer/KE comp | Inv. income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $26.2M | $25.8M | $4.4M | $26.4M | $150K | $11K |
| 2022 | $15.4M | $14.8M | $4.0M | $15.4M | $126K | $11K |
| 2021 | $17.0M | $14.8M | $3.4M | $17.0M | $124K | $6K |
| 2020 | $10.3M | $9.6M | $1.2M | $10.2M | $100K | $0 |
| 2019 | $4.5M | $3.9M | $500K | $4.5M | $95K | $0 |
| 2018 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $-13645 | $1.6M | $145K | $0 |
| 2017 | $44K | $35K | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| 2016 | $167K | $166K | $46K | $167K | $0 | $0 |
| 2015 | $201K | $167K | $45K | $201K | $62K | $0 |
| 2014 | $60K | $57K | $11K | $60K | $0 | $0 |
| 2013 | $31K | $24K | $7K | $31K | $10K | $0 |
Ethical supplier stack — not yet scanned
scan pendingWe have not yet run the public-website vendor scan for Muslim Aid America. 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
1 paid · 10 unpaid board · total $204K| Name | Title | From org | Related orgs | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azhar Azeez | Executive Di | $150K | $0 | $54K | $204K |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AZHAR AZEEZ EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | $150K | $0 | $0 | $10K | $44K | $204K | — |
Grants made · Schedule I
The organizations and people Muslim Aid America re-granted money to, as reported on IRS Form 990 Schedule I. Total disbursed across these4 grants: $158K.
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
MUHAMMAD ALI CENTER EIN 611323046 | $50K | PROGRAM SUPPORT | 2023 |
ZAKAT CHICAGO EIN 363869749 | $50K | PROGRAM SUPPORT | 2023 |
NORTH STAR FOUNDATION INC EIN 846035939 | $33K | PROGRAM SUPPORT | 2023 |
SELAM FOUNDATION EIN 274399513 | $25K | WINTERIZATION | 2022 |
▸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 - ORGANIZATION'S MISSIONFY 2023
PROVIDE HELP TO PEOPLE WHO ARE VICTIMS OF NATURAL DISASTERS OR CONFLICTS OR SUFFERING FROM POVERTY, HUNGER, DISEASE, ILLITERACY, DISCRIMINATION, HOMELESSNESS, DEBT, UNEMPLOYMENT, INJUSTICE, OR LACK OF SKILLS OR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY.
- FORM 990, PAGE 2, PART III, LINE 4BFY 2023
EMERGENCY IN 2023 MUSLIM AID USA RESPONDED TO VARIOUS EMERGENCIES, NATURAL AND MAN- MADE IN PAKISTAN, YEMEN BANGLADESH, PALESTINE, AFGHANISTAN AND ETHIOPIA. MAUSA RESPONDED FOR DROUGHT AFFECTED RURAL COMMUNITIES IN SOMALI REGIONAL STATE IN ETHIOPIA. IN BANGLADESH MAUSA DISTRIBUTED 5,632 FOOD PACKAGES AND 900 BLANKETS TO BOTH THE ROHINGYA REGUGEES AND THE HOST COMMUNITY IN COX'S BAZAR. AND IN AFGHANISTAN MAUSA PROVIDED WEATHERPROOF TENTS FOR 150 FAMILIES (1,050 INDIVIDUALS) AND WINTERIZATION KITS FOR 610 HOUSEHOLDS IN KABUL, BAGHLAN, AND KUNDUZ,ADDRESSING THE IMMEDIATE NEEDS OF VULNERABLE HOUSEHOLDS DURING THE WINTER SEASON. IN MYANMAR MAUSA SUPPORTED A PROJECT AIDING 338 BOYS AND GIRLS THROUGH VOCATIONAL TRAINING,PROVIDING SKILLS TO AID THEIR REINTEGRATION INTO SOCIETY. THE PROJECT ALSO OFFERS PSYCHOSOCIAL AND REHABILITATIVE SUPPORT TO ADDRESS MENTAL AND PHYSICAL TRAUMA AND ASSISTS CHILDREN WHO COMPLETE THE TRAINING IN FINDING JOB OPPORTUNITIES. IN PAKISTAN MAUSA BUILT ONE-ROOM FLOOD-RESISTANT SHELTERS AND LATRINES FOR 50 FAMILIES AND PROVIDED FOOD PACKAGES TO 1,450 FAMILIES IN MIRPURKHAS, SINDH. IN TURKEY MAUSA FUNDED THE REPAIR OF 11 SCHOOLS, ALLOWING CHILDREN TO CONTINUE THEIR EDUCATION AND ENABLING EDUCATORS AND STAFF TO RETURN TO WORK. IN PALESTINE MAUSA ENHANCED WINTER PREPAREDNESS BY PROVIDING 1,700 PADDED CARPETS FOR UN SHELTERS AND DISTRIBUTING 5,348 BLANKETS. ADDITIONALLY,MAUSA SUPPLIED FOOD PARCELS, HYGIENE KITS, AND CLEANING SERVICES FOR SIX UNRWA SCHOOLS SHELTERING DISPLACED GAZANS. IN THE WEST BANK, MAUSA SUPPORTED JENIN GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL WITH MEDICINES AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES FOR UP TO 8,000 PATIENTS. THE PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT SOCIETY WAS PROVIDED WITH EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES FOR AMBULANCES TO SUPPORT 300 PATIENTS PER MONTH. MAUSA ALSO DISTRIBUTED HYGIENE AND DIGNITY KITS TO 100 FAMILIES(500 INDIVIDUALS) AND PROVIDED MENTAL HEALTH AND PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT TO 500 CHILDREN. TOGETHER WITH THE RED CROSS GENEVA AND THE PALESTINIAN R
- FORM 990, PAGE 2, PART III, LINE 4CFY 2023
FOOD SECURITY & FOOD AID THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE BETWEEN YEMEN, AFGHANISTAN, SOMALIA, SENEGAL & ETHIOPIA ARE SUFFERING EXTREME HUNGER. MAUSA IS WORKING WITH LOCAL PARTNERS TO DELIVER EMERGENCY FOOD PACKAGES TO THOSE IN NEED. THROUGH FOOD AID, RAMADAN FOOD PACKAGES AND QURBANI. FOOD SECURITY MUSLIM AID USA PROVIDED FOOD AND OTHER ESSENTIAL ITEMS TO INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS "IDP'S" REFUGEES, AND OTHER POVERTY-STRICKEN FAMILIES WE ALSO IMPLEMENTED SEASONAL PROJECTS INCLUDING FEED THE FASTING, QURBANI, WINTERIZATION KITS MAUSA DELIVERED FOOD PARCELS TO APPROXIMATELY 32,000 IN THE HOLY MONTH OF RAMADAN AND CHARITABLE GIVING FOR THIS MONTH, OBSERVED BY MUSLIMS. FEEDING THE MOST VULNERABLE FAMILIES IN YEMEN, LEBANON, SENEGAL , PAKISTAN , PALESTINE , SOMALIA , UGANDA , BOSNIA , AND UYGHUR REFUGEES IN TURKEY .