Islamic Cultural Center of New York
Legal name: Islamic Cultural Center of New York Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811086729
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
- Phone
- +1 (212) 722-5234
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $1,000
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- TAREQ ALBANAI (CHAIRMAN)
- MAGED ABDELAIZIZ (BOARD MEMBER)
- ABDOU DIALLO (BOARD MEMBER)
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 Islamic Cultural Center of New York is a religious and cultural organization, established in the early 1960's. Its objectives include: (1) serving the neighboring Muslim community of Manhattan in particular, and the entire Muslim community of America, in general. This would be done by answering their religious needs and providing them with a place of worship, classes to assist them and their children where they learn detailed knowledge about their religion, Islam; (2) enlighten the American public opinion with the true knowledge about Islam: its teachings, ideology, philosophy and culture; (3) providing Muslim communities in the Americas with religious guidance and correct religious opinions and legal rulings of the Islamic law concerning religious, cultural and social critical questions; (4) promoting a good understanding and friendly relations between Muslims and non-Muslims.
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide services for the Islamic community in NY in associaltion with its affiliates, The Islamic Center of NY and The Islamic Cultural Center School
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 18
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 4th 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: Limited
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -77.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 3 of 7 filing controls reported · 4 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.