Guidance College
Legal name: Guidance College Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 320344845
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Houston, TX, United States
- Phone
- 7132313791
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- University or Technological Institute
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $991,547
- Expenses
- $737,534
- Assets
- $1,336,074
- Liabilities
- $6,032
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAIN ALQUDAH (PRESIDENT)
- MAIN ALQUDAH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- Mahmoud Rabi (Chairman)
- MAIN ALQUDAH (PRESIDENT)
- Mouna Younes (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
Guidance College is an Islamic institution of higher learning dedicated to providing world-class education in the study of Islam, with a goal of ensuring Islamic knowledge is authentic and relevant and equipping students for ethical, critical contributions to society. Under the guidance of Dr. Hamed Ghazali and Dr. Main Alqudah, with the support of the MAS Katy community, Guidance College, AKA Al Huda University, opened its doors in 2012. As the College grew and expanded, the name changed to Guidance College. With each year, Guidance College expands its student body and adds new courses to the curriculum; seeking to continually improve academic performance. The goal every day is to adhere to its mission of providing Islamic knowledge as authentic and relevant as possible. Allah willing, Guidance College will become the center point of Islamic knowledge in the United States of...
What it reported doing in 2024
Education
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 29
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 42
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.2%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 33.8%; rating input score 34
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.6%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.81; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.1% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 25.2% of revenue deployed · 33.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported · 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $249K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 27 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule G fundraiser detail did not reconcile in the filed values.