Institute of Islamic Studies
Legal name: Institude of Islamic and Turkish Studies
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800154564
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Chantilly, VA, United States
- Phone
- (703) 385-7773
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Islam
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $151,750
- Expenses
- $154,680
- Assets
- $403
- Liabilities
- $80,154
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- OMER FARUK IMAT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- YUSUF CETINKAYA (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- OMER FARUK IMAT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- YUSUF CETINKAYA (PRESIDENT)
- EBRU NIDA BILICI (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To show that religions are not necessarily the main source of every conflict, hostility, and clashes among world civilizations, rather, religions can play major role in restoring world peace, respect, sympathy, trust and tolerance to different groups when the followers are educated, and guided properly to meet the needs of changing values of tomorrow's world.
What it reported doing in 2025
Served as a resource for those interested in learning about islam and the turkish language and culture. Helped muslims improve their knowledge and understanding of islam. Supported interfaith dialogue and worked to prevent misconceptions and misunderstandings of islam and muslims.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 85.3%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.9%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 198.89; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.8%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 87% of revenue deployed · 85.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $132K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.