International Museum of Muslim Cultures
Legal name: International Museum of Muslim Culture
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364495799
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Jackson, MS, United States
- Phone
- (601) 960-0440
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- History Museums
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,719,065
- Expenses
- $1,014,372
- Assets
- $1,960,746
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- OKOLO RASHID (CO-FOUNDER/PRESIDENT EMERITA)
Highest reported compensation
- OKOLO RASHID (CO-FOUNDER/PRESIDENT EMERITA): $107,299 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
As America’s First Muslim Museum, our mission is to educate the American public on Islamic history, art, and culture. With the hard work and dedication of co-founders Mrs. Okolo Rashid and Mr. Emad Al-Turk and a steering team of scholars, experts, and community members, the International Museum of Muslim Cultures (IMMC) opened in April 2001 with its first exhibition, **_Moorish Spain: Its Legacy to Europe and the West_** alongside the Museo del Prado’s international touring exhibition _The Majesty of Spain_ , at the Mississippi Arts Pavilion in downtown Jackson. The museum attracted over 2,000 visitors in its first month of operation and continues to be a pioneer in sharing the beauty and majesty of the world’s Muslim cultures. As _America’s First Muslim Museum,_ our mission** is to educate the American pub.
What it reported doing in 2024
Islamic thought institute beloved community
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 41.6%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 70.5%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 41%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.93; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.6%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 41.6% of revenue deployed · 70.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported · 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $247K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $107K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.