Association of Muslim Chaplains
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454674951
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Durham, NC, USA
- Phone
- 3316422762
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $239,135
- Expenses
- $142,017
- Assets
- $144,275
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSHUA SALAAM (President)
Highest reported compensation
- ZAKIA HAQUE (Director): $47,916 total reported compensation
- KARIM HAKIM (Operations Manager): $45,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Association of Muslim Chaplains is the only national professional association for Muslim chaplains, providing resources, tools, and community to help them thrive in their work across corrections, education, healthcare, military, and community settings.
What it reported doing in 2025
Annual retreat (approximately 80 attendees)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Member-benefit provider. The nonprofit used 90% of its reported program spending for member benefits.
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: 10
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.4%; rating input score 9
- Program expense ratio: 15.8%; rating input score 16
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 40.6%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 65.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 70.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 98.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 9.4% of revenue deployed · 15.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported · 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $33K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $48K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 9/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.