Institute of Knowledge
Legal name: Institute of Knowledge IOK Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 332229404
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Diamond Bar, CA, US
- Phone
- +1 (909) 595 2401
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Islam
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,006,867
- Expenses
- $1,960,867
- Assets
- $59,000
- Liabilities
- $13,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nomaan Baig (President)
People named in this filing
- Nomaan Baig (President)
- Taher Dadabhoy (Secretary)
- Imtiaz Mohammady (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Institute aims to foster youthful Muslim minds through a variety of programs catering to varying levels of learners that promotes the traditional religious sciences.
What it reported doing in 2025
INSTITUTE OF KNOWLEDGE (IOK) FOUNDATION is a religious organization that is dedicated to preserving and teaching the Islamic religion as well as providing spiritual and religious counseling, and a site for regular religious worship. The activities shall be conducted by religiously trained imams.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.7%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.7%; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- 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: 2.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 97.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported · 5 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.