Afghan American Muslim Outreach

Overview

Mission

AAMO’s Mission is to serve the Afghan-American Muslim community to foster an American Muslim identity, the refugees to become self-reliant, to support the wider communities through social services, and the youth to pursue higher education, leadership, and self-development skills. AAMO has always strived to make coalition and bring the community organizations closer to work on common causes and build bridges. Recently AAMO played a big role in providing support in partnership with various community organizations to the newly arrive Afghan refugees. AAMO is a proud co-founder of ANSAR (American Network of Services for Afghan Refugees) of SoCal. Publications AAMO's research committee is determined to offer a variety of publications addressing the needs of ‎Afghans and Muslims living in western countries. Most of our conferences had informative ‎booklets related to the theme of the...

Operating model

Revenue model

Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.

Distribution model

Direct operator. The filing allocates 83% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 14
• Transparency & Controls: 90
• Accountability: 94
• Sustainability: 21
• Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
• Where the money goes: 17.4% of revenue deployed · 13.1% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported · 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
• Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
• Schedules: 2 filed schedules
• Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
• Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
• Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
• People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

• High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 17/100.
• High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 13/100.
• High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
• High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
• High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
• High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
• High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.