Cair-nga Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270012471
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Duluth, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4044196390
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Islam
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,058,315
- Expenses
- $810,988
- Assets
- $557,466
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AZKA MAHMOOD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- CHRISTOPHER BURKE (BOARD PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- AZKA MAHMOOD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JAVERIA JAMIL (LEGAL DIRECTOR)
- ISHA KAMAL (TREASURER)
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
Serve, protect, and advocate for Georgia muslims
What it reported doing in 2024
Protect Georgia muslims: in2024 cair-Georgia responded to 240 calls for legal help from Georgia muslims, asking cair-Georgia to protect their civil rights.cair-georgiafiled 4 title vi civil rights complaints against schools and c olleges for anti-muslim and anti-palestinian discrimination. We supported community members who reported suppression of free speech at workplaces and in public spaces. Our legal department secured a $112,000settlement for a client who was starved and denied religious accommodations such as halal meals, access to prayer times and prayers mats at dekalb county jail. Cair-Georgia effectively advocated for prayer rooms to be reinstated, for false disciplinary charges against students to be expunged, and for teachers to receive anti-bias trainings. Cair-Georgia sent 114 advocacy letters on behalf of Georgia muslims to educate and inform universities, school districts, workplaces, prisons and jails statewide about muslims religious rights.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 18
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.8%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 71.5%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.03 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th 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: 23.4%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.8% of revenue deployed · 71.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $580K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.