Rabata Inc
EIN 464208628 · Arden Hills, MN · — · women-led
Address3533 LEXINGTON AVE N, Arden Hills, MN 55126-8017
Mission · 990 Part I
“TO CREATE POSITIVE CULTURAL CHANGE THROUGH CREATIVE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES.”
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
Filing observations & context
1 noteworthySpecific datapoints from Rabata Inc'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 revenuenoteworthy
Top officer compensation ($130,882) is 7.4% of total revenue.
What this meansThe 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": "TAMARA GRAY", "officer_title": "EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR", "officer_comp": 130882, "total_revenue": 1775164, "ratio": 0.0737 }
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 $1.93MForm 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$570K · 29.5%
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)$1.36M · 70.5%
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
Rabata Inc reports $1.03M 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↑ 11.1% YoY$1.78Mprior: $1.60MΔ +$177K3y CAGR +24.8%
Total revenue per Form 990 Part I line 12.
- Contributions↑ 13.6% YoY$1.03Mprior: $910KΔ +$123K3y CAGR +19.9%
Form 990 Part I line 1h — gifts, grants, and contributions received.
- Investment income↑ 268.4% YoY$23Kprior: -$13KΔ +$36K3y CAGR +44.1%
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↑ 19.3% YoY$1.93Mprior: $1.62MΔ +$312K3y CAGR +42.5%
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↑ 27.0% YoY$570Kprior: $449KΔ +$121K3y CAGR +24.6%
Officer comp + other salaries + payroll tax — total people-cost of running the org.
- Net assets↓ -30.9% YoY$479Kprior: $693KΔ −$214K3y CAGR -11.3%
Form 990 Part X line 33 — assets minus liabilities at year end.
- Months of reserve↓ -42.1% YoY3.0 moprior: 5.1 moΔ −2.2 mo3y CAGR -37.8%
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
3.0 moNotableMonths of reserve in FY 2023: 3.0. 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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Multi-year history
click to expand| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net assets | Contributions | Officer/KE comp | Inv. income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1.9M | $479K | $1.0M | $0 | $23K |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $693K | $910K | $0 | $-13374 |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.1M | $854K | $759K | $0 | $23K |
| 2020 | $914K | $667K | $686K | $600K | $166K | $8K |
| 2019 | $570K | $578K | $107K | $270K | $134K | $0 |
| 2018 | $431K | $369K | $116K | $245K | $85K | $13 |
| 2017 | $338K | $326K | $54K | $157K | $60K | $0 |
| 2016 | $210K | $286K | $41K | $75K | $78K | $0 |
| 2015 | $238K | $179K | $118K | $78K | $40K | $0 |
| 2014 | $98K | $98K | $75K | $63K | $0 | $0 |
| 2013 | $85K | $21K | $0 | $85K | $0 | $0 |
Ethical supplier stack — strength on record
No widely-flagged vendors were detected on Rabata Inc's public website during our most recent scan. This covers analytics, payment, and SSO vendors visible in the rendered HTML, the donor-page network log, and the site’s DNS records — but not back-office tools (CRM, accounting, ad-tech) that don’t appear publicly. On the publicly-scannable supplier surface, Rabata Inc is among the cleanest in the cohort.
Even with a clean public-side stack, the Ihsan Standard engagement track offers a further audit at zero org cost during the pilot: the Khulafāʾ al-Arḍ Stewardship Audit (environmental footprint of sites and vendors). See the Attestations & Audits section above.
Method: automatic vendor detection from public website HTML — scope is limited to what the org makes visible on the site. See standards for the full vendor rubric.
Compensation history
Form 990 Part VII Section A · 8 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
6 paid · 10 unpaid board · total $140K| Name | Title | From org | Related orgs | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamara Gray | Executive Director | $131K | $0 | $0 | $131K |
| Kiashe Pugh | Vice Chair | $3K | $0 | $0 | $3K |
| Soofia Ahmad | Secretary | $2K | $0 | $0 | $2K |
| Hazel Gomez | Chair | $2K | $0 | $0 | $2K |
| Tayyaba Syed | Board Member | $2K | $0 | $0 | $2K |
| Deeqa Hussein | Board Member | $125 | $0 | $0 | $125 |
▸Verticals · detected automatically
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Verticals · detected automatically
click to expandSignals automatically extracted from public website data on https://www.rabata.org— 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 11BFY 2023
THE BOARD IS GIVEN ACCESS TO THE TAX RETURN TO REVIEW AND APPROVE BEFORE THE RETURN IS FILED.
- FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 12CFY 2023
UPON OR BEFORE ELECTION, HIRING, OR APPOINTMENT, VOLUNTEERS, STAFF, AND BOARD MEMBERS MAKE A FULL, WRITTEN DISCLOSURE OF INTERESTS, RELATIONSHIPS, AND HOLDINGS THAT COULD POTENTIALLY RESULT IN A CONFLICT OF INTEREST. THIS WRITTEN DISCLOSURE WILL IS KEPT ON FILE AND UPDATED AS APPROPRIATE.
- FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 15AFY 2023
MANAGEMENT AND EXECUTIVE PAY IS DETERMINED BASED ON EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION AND OTHER QUALIFICATIONS.