Hidaya Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770502583
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4082443282
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,190,451
- Expenses
- $14,394,842
- Assets
- $4,121,802
- Liabilities
- $59
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WASEEM BALOCH (President & CEO)
- IMRAN BALOCH (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MAZHAR UDDIN (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- MOHAMED S SHAMSUDDIN (Treasurer): $165,399 total reported compensation
- WASEEM BALOCH (President & CEO): $157,500 total reported compensation
- IMRAN BALOCH (VICE PRESIDENT): $131,909 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To implement educational, environmental, social welfare, and health care programs in economically depressed areas of Asia, Africa and North America, with focus on projects which promote self-employment. Hidaya Foundation does not indulge in any kind of lobbying or other political activities and does not have any intention of doing so in the future. There is no budget for such activities per its charter. Hidaya Foundation does not use its funds for purposes of religious proselytizing in any way. Exposure or adherence to the organization’s religious doctrine is not required of the beneficiaries. Hidaya Foundation tries to use all funds precisely as specified by donors to the best of its ability. However, under unexpected circumstances, Hidaya Foundation reserves the right to channel funds elsewhere. Be an Active Supporter Since 1999, Hidaya Foundation has been serving the poor and in...
What it reported doing in 2024
Environmental projects - provide supplies, materials, equipments and other resources to promote care of the environment through clean drinking water, distribution of tree seedlings and training to beneficiaries.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.1%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 94.7%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $50.38 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Pass
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 91.9%; rating input score 92; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.4%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 96.1% of revenue deployed · 94.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported · 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $13.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $165K · 8 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 31 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 20 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 16 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.