Andover Islamic Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833517294
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Andover, MA, United States
- Phone
- (978) 482-7009
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Islam
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $518,955
- Expenses
- $286,722
- Assets
- $975,630
- Liabilities
- $165,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FAISAL AHMED (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- AHMED FAHMY (DIRECTOR)
- JAMAL N EL HOUT MR (TRUSTEE)
- AMIE JOOF SENGHORE (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Statement To encourage community muslims especially youths to learn their religion and participate in the neighborhood they live in by sharing, exchanging and building a harmonious and safe living environment. Objectives. Provide religious activities like teaching to read Quran, fundamentals of Islam, how to be a good muslim and citizen. Provide community outreach to all area residents regardless of their belief. Play its part in the community it exist in to fight hunger and homelessness.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community outreach and promote diversity and inclusion
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.5%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 98.6%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 44.8%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.4; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 28% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 39.8% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 54.5% of revenue deployed · 98.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported · 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $283K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.