Assyrian American Cultural Organization of Arizona
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271744334
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Glendale, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4802696675
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $34,517
- Expenses
- $38,512
- Assets
- $27,844
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CAROLYN ODISHO (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PAUL YOUSIF (TREASURER)
- CAROLYN ODISHO (PRESIDENT)
- GABRIAL BABELLA (VICE PRESIDE)
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
The mission of the assyrian american cultural organization of Arizona is to create a sustainable and far reaching social and educational organization to serve the needs of the assyrian american community of phoenix Arizona and to spark an interest and love for assyrian culture and heritage. The assyrian american cultural organization of Arizona an affiliate of the assyrian american national federation is a non-profit 501c3 organization that is dedicated to being a catalyst and guide for assyrian youth and professionals to achieve harmonious brotherly love and unity and to build strong networks for the social and educational advance of our community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our largest event is our annual cultural and community event run by the assyrian american cultural organization of Arizona. It is an assyrian gathering of cultural food music & dancing that we put on every year. It is a classy event suit and tie required where we provide awards for outstanding acts of involvement within our community to assyrians within the state of Arizona. These awards are praise on the dedication and activism that we observe within our community every year. Not only do we praise our community we also enlighten them with art pieces posters of assyrian history formal speeches and much more among other things. This event is held annually in a banquet hall being our largest expense among other secondary expenses. The event is limited to banquet hall requirements which was 400 in the year of 2023.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.7% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -29.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.