Basmah
Legal name: Bangladesh American Society of Muslim Aid for Huma
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821670588
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2018–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2024
- Location
- Boca Raton, FL, US
- Phone
- 561-945-3313
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Operating Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,729,566
- Expenses
- $8,691,229
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
BASMAH supports refugees, orphans, women, and vulnerable communities with healthcare, education, food, shelter, and empowerment programs.
What it reported funding in 2024
The foundation reported 1 filed grant row totaling $4,080,723. The stated grant purpose was basmah program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no charitable disbursements for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of spending goes to grants. Assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
- Cost Efficiency: 94
- Transparency: NotEnoughData
- Compliance: 100
- Endowment Health: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: Limited
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 93.9%; rating input score 94; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Limited
Compliance
- Foundation activity disclosures: 19 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Individual grants for travel, study or similar purposes: Pass
- Grants outside qualifying charitable organization categories: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 8; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 0.05; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they fund: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: Filed grants detail
- Payout: Filed payout detail
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 0th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 0/100.