Building Blocks of Islam
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205035650
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Columbia Heights, MN, USA
- Phone
- 612-789-9227
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Religion Related
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $482,908
- Expenses
- $360,881
- Assets
- $278,722
- Liabilities
- $13,152
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HATEM ELHAGALY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MASHOOD YUNUS (BOARD MEMBER)
- JAMEL MOHAMMED BEN AMEUR (BOARD MEMBER)
- ROANAQ OSMAN (BOARD MEMBER)
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
To strengthen and nurture families through the provision of social, educational, and religious services, as well as outreach programs to build bridges of mutual understanding with other communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
As a community-building organization, building blocks engages people in working together to address needs, find solutions, and improve lives. Our mission is driven by islamic principles on charity and social responsibility and each individual is viewed as a building block that reinforces the community. Building blocks emergency assistance program has been a source of hope and relief. We have helped several families avoid eviction, move from shelters into a home of their own, keep their utilities on, or buy essential groceries.building blocks food shelf program provides much needed sustenance to a large number of families each month (special distributions during the month of ramadan put food on the table for a significant number of families as well). At a time when questions abound about islam, building blocks has bolstered efforts to educate, reach out, and build bridges of understanding with other communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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 most voting board members are independent. 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: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.8%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 70.6%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.64 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd 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: 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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- 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: 25.3%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.7% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -13% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 52.8% of revenue deployed · 70.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported · 4 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $255K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 53/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.