Al Baseerah Academy Nfp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994484396
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Arlington Heights, IL, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $116,517
- Expenses
- $123,180
- Assets
- $35,384
- Liabilities
- $29,968
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Samira Nacef Chaker (President & Chief Education Officer)
People named in this filing
- Samira Nacef Chaker (President & Chief Education Officer)
- Kamel Chaker (Secretary & Treasurer & COO & CTO)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Al-Baseerah Academy is organized for educational and charitable purposes to serve youth and families in the community through programs that promote academic excellence character development and community engagement. The organization provides weekend educational programs including Quran studies Islamic education and Arabic language instruction as well as academic enrichment opportunities such as tutoring ACT college-preparation and youth development activities. Al-Baseerah Academy also offers summer camps and STEM learning programs designed to support students intellectual growth leadership skills and positive values in a supportive learning environment.
What it reported doing in 2025
Saturday School Program Provides weekend educational programs for youth including Quran studies Islamic studies Arabic language instruction academic enrichment tutoring and character-development activities. Summer Camp Program Organizes seasonal summer camp programs featuring educational recreational and hands-on learning activities including field trips student activities STEM robotics LEGO educational projects and academic enrichment. Hifdh & Quran Program Provides Quran memorization Hifdh Tajweed and Islamic learning programs designed to strengthen students connection with the Quran and support spiritual and character development. STEM & Youth Development Program Offers STEM robotics tutoring ACT preparation youth leadership activities and community engagement programs including youth events and educational workshops that promote hands-on learning and personal growth.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.7%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.85; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.