Yaqeen Research Institute Inc
EIN 812822877 · Carrollton, TX · — · education-research
Address1624 VALWOOD PKWY, Carrollton, TX 75006-6829
Mission · 990 Part I
“A NONPROFIT ON A MISSION TO PIONEER ISLAMIC RESEARCH IN CREATIVE CUTTING EDGE FORMATS TAILORED TO MEET PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE.”
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: 6.1% 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 $5.01MForm 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$2.95M · 58.9%
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)$2.06M · 41.1%
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
Yaqeen Research Institute Inc reports $8.74M 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↑ 20.2% YoY$8.76Mprior: $7.28MΔ +$1.47M3y CAGR +6.7%
Total revenue per Form 990 Part I line 12.
- Contributions↑ 20.4% YoY$8.74Mprior: $7.26MΔ +$1.48M3y CAGR +7.0%
Form 990 Part I line 1h — gifts, grants, and contributions received.
- Investment income→ n/a$0prior: $0
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↑ 26.4% YoY$5.01Mprior: $3.96MΔ +$1.04M3y CAGR +28.2%
Form 990 Part I line 18 — total functional expenses.
- Top-officer compensation↑ 36.1% YoY$534Kprior: $392KΔ +$142K3y CAGR +32.1%
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↑ 28.9% YoY$2.95Mprior: $2.29MΔ +$663K3y CAGR +37.7%
Officer comp + other salaries + payroll tax — total people-cost of running the org.
- Net assets↓ -13.4% YoY$5.00Mprior: $5.77MΔ −$775K3y CAGR -27.8%
Form 990 Part X line 33 — assets minus liabilities at year end.
- Months of reserve↓ -31.5% YoY12.0 moprior: 17.5 moΔ −5.5 mo3y CAGR -43.6%
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
6.1%ContextTop-officer comp was $534K on revenue of $8.76M — 6.1%.
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 | $8.8M | $5.0M | $5.0M | $8.7M | $534K | $0 |
| 2022 | $7.3M | $4.0M | $5.8M | $7.3M | $392K | $0 |
| 2021 | $8.2M | $3.1M | $3.0M | $8.2M | $373K | $0 |
| 2020 | $7.2M | $2.4M | $13.3M | $7.1M | $232K | $69K |
| 2019 | $5.8M | $1.6M | $8.0M | $5.8M | $102K | $0 |
| 2018 | $3.5M | $1.0M | $3.7M | $3.5M | $94K | $17K |
| 2017 | $1.4M | $229K | $1.2M | $1.4M | $37K | $2K |
| 2016 | $327K | $200K | $127K | $327K | $0 | $0 |
Areas where engagement could help — ethical supplier stack
4 flags detectedWe detected 4 vendors on Yaqeen Research Institute Inc's public website that appear on widely-followed Muslim-community watch lists (BDS, Project Nimbus contractors, documented content-suppression, or Uyghur-surveillance context). Per the §I “transparency over imposition” principle, we publish the facts and the cited basis — we do not adjudicate which boycotts are religiously obligatory. Each donor decides.
- Stripepayment-processor
Stripe Inc. — co-founder Patrick Collison has made publicly documented donations and statements supporting positions adverse to Muslim humanitarian causes at material scale. Appears on community boycott discussions. Verify current status before publishing org-level findings.
Evidence found — view
- https://yaqeeninstitute.org/zakat-calculator#network — qeeninstitute.org/_next/static/chunks/pages/careers-8d197b4cea680b95.js https://js.stripe.com/v3 https://yaqeeninstitute.org/_next/static/chunks/pages/match-gif…
- https://yaqeeninstitute.org/zakat-calculator#network — pvc=1&tids=AW-11022294793&tid=AW-11022294793&tft=1779166996228&tfd=6009 https://m.stripe.network/inner.html https://www.google.com/ccm/collect?rcb=9&frm=0&auid=…
- https://yaqeeninstitute.org/donate#network — hog.com/decide/?v=3&ip=1&_=1779166392931&ver=1.155.4&compression=base64 https://js.stripe.com/v3 https://static.hotjar.com/c/hotjar-2220455.js?sv=6 https://yaqe…
- Meta Pixelanalytics-tracking
Meta Platforms — documented in multiple reports (BSR external review 2022, Human Rights Watch 2023) for systemic suppression of pro-Palestinian and Arabic-language content during the May 2021 Gaza crisis and ongoing. The Meta Pixel is the user-tracking instrument that feeds Meta's advertising and content-ranking systems. Many Muslim donors who use Facebook/Instagram daily are nonetheless concerned about funding the advertising surface.
Evidence found — view
- https://yaqeeninstitute.org/zakat-calculator#network — &_=1779166996687&ver=1.155.4&compression=gzip-js https://m.stripe.com/6 https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js https://connect.facebook.net/signals/conf…
- https://yaqeeninstitute.org/donate#network — mbed-js-form-bind&count=3 https://analytics.tiktok.com/api/v2/pixel/act https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js https://connect.facebook.net/signals/conf…
- https://yaqeeninstitute.org/dhul-hijjah-donate?int_source=yaqeeninstitute.org&int_campaign=dhul-hijjah-automate&int_content=website-sticky#network — pvc=0&tids=AW-11022294793&tid=AW-11022294793&tft=1779167016473&tfd=4906 https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js https://us.i.posthog.com/e/?ip=1&_=177916…
- TikTok Pixelanalytics-tracking
ByteDance — Chinese parent company subject to CCP information-sharing obligations under the 2017 National Intelligence Law. Separate concern from BDS/Palestine: the Uyghur surveillance and CCP-data-access context that affects Muslim communities globally. Documented in multiple US/UK government reviews.
Evidence found — view
- https://yaqeeninstitute.org/zakat-calculator#network — .vercel-insights.com/v1/vitals https://yaqeeninstitute.org/cdn-cgi/rum? https://analytics.tiktok.com/i18n/pixel/events.js?sdkid=CI1JHPBC77U2H86M3R30&lib=ttq htt…
- https://yaqeeninstitute.org/donate#network — .vercel-insights.com/v1/vitals https://yaqeeninstitute.org/cdn-cgi/rum? https://analytics.tiktok.com/i18n/pixel/events.js?sdkid=CI1JHPBC77U2H86M3R30&lib=ttq htt…
- https://yaqeeninstitute.org/dhul-hijjah-donate?int_source=yaqeeninstitute.org&int_campaign=dhul-hijjah-automate&int_content=website-sticky#network — .vercel-insights.com/v1/vitals https://yaqeeninstitute.org/cdn-cgi/rum? https://analytics.tiktok.com/i18n/pixel/events.js?sdkid=CI1JHPBC77U2H86M3R30&lib=ttq htt…
- Hotjaranalytics-israeli-hq
Hotjar — incorporated in Malta with significant Israeli operations and leadership. Acquired by Contentsquare (France) in 2021. Appears on some BDS-adjacent watch lists due to its Israeli development and leadership ties. The product provides session-replay and heatmap analytics.
Evidence found — view
- https://yaqeeninstitute.org/zakat-calculator#network — hog.com/decide/?v=3&ip=1&_=1779166993686&ver=1.155.4&compression=base64 https://static.hotjar.com/c/hotjar-2220455.js?sv=6 https://yaqeeninstitute.org/_next/sta…
- https://yaqeeninstitute.org/zakat-calculator#network — aqeeninstitute.org/_next/static/chunks/pages/topics-380cdf6f31e62283.js https://script.hotjar.com/modules.6a0f3932cb1341a35c18.js https://yaqeeninstitute.org/_n…
- https://yaqeeninstitute.org/donate#network — _=1779166392931&ver=1.155.4&compression=base64 https://js.stripe.com/v3 https://static.hotjar.com/c/hotjar-2220455.js?sv=6 https://yaqeeninstitute.org/_next/sta…
Most orgs we scan don’t know which of their analytics or payment vendors appear on community watch lists — they inherited the choice from a template or an ads-manager setup. Alternatives exist for every flagged vendor (Helcim/Stax for payment, Plausible/Fathom for analytics, self-hosted PostHog for session replay).
The Ihsan Standard Supplier-Stack Audit goes further than the public-website scan above. We inventory the full vendor stack — payment processors, hosting, CRM, accounting, ad-tech, the back-office tools that don’t show up in HTML — identify ethical alternatives for each, and build a realistic transition timeline staffed against the org’s actual calendar. The audit output is a vendor-by-vendor switch plan, not a shame-list.
Paired with the Khulafāʾ al-Arḍ Stewardship Audit (environmental footprint of sites and vendors, in partnership with the Art and Wilderness Institute’s Green Masjid Initiative), this is the engagement-track ladder we offer every org. See the Attestations & Audits section above for the full set.
1 potential signal (lower confidence) — view
These matches came from broader patterns that can be false positives (e.g. a legacy Google SDK loaded for both YouTube embeds and Sign-In). Treat as “worth a manual check,” not as confirmed.
- Vercel · low confidenceVercel Inc. — US-headquartered (San Francisco). The company's founder/CEO has made publicly-documented statements supporting Israel that have drawn community pushback. NOT in the same category as IDF-…
Method: automatic vendor detection from public website data. Watch-list basis is the documented public reason each vendor appears on community lists (BDS, Don’t Buy Into Occupation, U.S. Dept. of Commerce Entity List, etc.) — not Ihsan Standard’s own editorial judgment. See the ethical-supplier rubric for the full methodology.
Compensation history
Form 990 Part VII Section A · 6 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
4 paid · 5 unpaid board · total $534K| Name | Title | From org | Related orgs | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omar Suleiman | President/Ceo, Director | $164K | $0 | $0 | $164K |
| Sazzat Parvez | Engineering Manager | $136K | $0 | $0 | $136K |
| Osman Umarji | Director | $124K | $0 | $0 | $124K |
| Tammam M Alwan | Director Of Development | $109K | $0 | $0 | $109K |
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 SULEIMAN PRESIDENT/CEO, DIRECTOR | $180K | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $180K | — |
▸Verticals · detected automatically
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Verticals · detected automatically
click to expandSignals automatically extracted from public website data on https://yaqeeninstitute.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 2024
A DRAFT COPY OF THE FORM 990 WAS APPROVED BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND THE FINAL COPY WAS ULTIMATELY EXECUTED BY THE PRESIDENT.
- FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 12CFY 2024
TO ENSURE THE ORGANIZATION OPERATES IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND DOES NOT ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES THAT COULD JEOPARDIZE ITS TAX-EXEMPT STATUS, PERIODIC REVIEWS SHALL BE CONDUCTED.
- FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 15FY 2024
PRESIDENT/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER COMPENSATION IS DETERMINED AND VOTED BY THE INDEPENDENT MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. THE PRESIDENT/CEO OF THE ORGANIZATION ABSTAINS FROM VOTING. COMPARABILITY DATA ARE MEMORIALIZED IN THE MINUTES. OTHER OFFICERS AND KEY EMPLOYEES; REVIEW PROCESS YAQEEN'S HR MANAGER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SCREENING ALL JOB CANDIDATE'S RESUMES AND SUBMISSIONS. INITIAL INTERVIEWS FOR DIRECTOR POSITIONS ARE CONDUCTED BY THE CEO OR THE COO AND THE HR MANAGER. THE STRUCTURED INTERVIEW PROCESS INCLUDES TWO ROUNDS OF INTERVIEWS, REFERENCES AND BACKGROUND CHECKS. DEPENDING ON THE POSITION, PRIOR WORK SUBMISSIONS, SUCH AS A PORTFOLIO MAY ALSO BE REQUIRED FOR REVIEW. REFERENCE AND BACKGROUND CHECKS YAQEEN REQUIRES REFERENCE CHECKS ON THE TOP CANDIDATES. WITH WRITTEN AND AUTHORIZED CONSENT FROM THE CANDIDATE, A PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND CHECK WILL ALSO BE CONDUCTED. BACKGROUND CHECKS MAY VARY DEPENDING ON THE POSITION. THEY MAY INCLUDE CREDIT HISTORY, CRIMINAL HISTORY, DRUG TESTING AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION FOR THE POSITION. SALARY PRIOR TO EACH JOB POSTING, A SALARY SEARCH IS CREATED, REVIEWED, APPROVED AND BUDGETED FOR. DURING THE INTERVIEW PROCESS, EACH CANDIDATE IS ASKED THEIR REQUESTED SALARY AMOUNT. A CANDIDATE'S REQUEST IS REVIEWED AND CONSIDERED BASED ON EDUCATION LEVEL, PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, SKILL SET, COMPARED TO THE APPROVED BUDGETED SALARY AMOUNT AND INDUSTRY RATES FOR A SIMILAR ROLE. JOB OFFERS ONCE THE TOP CANDIDATE'S INTERVIEWS, SALARY, REFERENCE AND BACKGROUND CHECKS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AND APPROVED, A DECISION CAN BE MADE TO HIRE. THE HR MANAGER WILL SEND THE WRITTEN JOB OFFER TO THE CANDIDATE. THE POSITION IS NOT CONSIDERED HIRED FOR UNTIL THE CANDIDATE RETURNS A SIGNED COPY OF THE JOB OFFER LETTER TO THE HR MANAGER.