American Islamic Congress
Legal name: American Islamic Congress Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061634525
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2017
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017
- Location
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Phone
- 202-595-3160
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Islam
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $735,934
- Expenses
- $456,926
- Assets
- $720,240
- Liabilities
- $420,723
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ZAINAB AL-SUWA (PRES. TREASURE): $170,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The American Islamic Congress is a non-religious, civic society organization that provides an alternative Muslim voice for the promotion of civil and human rights through advocacy, engagement, and education.
What it reported doing in 2017
Project nur- aic student led campus initiative, unites a community of
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the required major-donor schedule is missing or incomplete.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 62
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.3%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 87.4%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $29.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: No; rating input score 0
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 37.9%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.58; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.58; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 37.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -14.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 54.3% of revenue deployed · 87.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported · 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $400K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $170K · 4 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2010 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Major donor itemization scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.