Atlanta Masjid Community Foundation
Legal name: Atlanta Masjid Community Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934246060
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, United States
- Phone
- 4042105129
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $363,846
- Expenses
- $583,402
- Assets
- $1,221,325
- Liabilities
- $3,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- IHSAN SALEEM (CHAIR)
- INDIA ALI (VICE CHAIR)
- KOFI RASHID (SECRETARY)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Atlanta Masjid Community Foundation (AMCF) promotes exemplary standards and mobilizes resources to bolster operational excellence within the Atlanta Masjid Community. Service is at the heart of our mission. Inspired by Islamic principles and the legacy of Imam W.D. Mohammed, we are committed to uplifting our community by supporting institutions that foster education, economic empowerment, and spiritual development. Accountability We hold ourselves to the highest standards of stewardship, ensuring that every contribution is used effectively to support our mission. We take our responsibility to our donors and community seriously and view your resources as a sacred trust.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization focuses on raising funds and making grants to preserve and grow the atlanta masjid of al-islam, ltd., the mohammed schools of atlanta ltd. (both 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations), and future philanthropic institutions affiliated with the atlanta masjid of al-islam community. Additional grant recipients must be approved by the atlanta masjid of al-islam, ltd., provided the organizations are exempt under section 501(c)(3) and the board determines such grants to be in furtherance of its charitable purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 94% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 87.3%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $71.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: -60.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.09; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 112% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -125.8% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -16.3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported · 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $510K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.