IslamInSpanish
Legal name: Islaminspanish Inc Islaminspanish Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262565846
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2013
- Location
- Houston, TX, United States
- Phone
- (832) 304-6554
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Islam
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,435,500
- Expenses
- $1,418,517
- Assets
- $4,489,573
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANISH SHAKIR (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JAMAL ASAFI (DIRECTOR)
- ARUN SARASWAT (DIRECTOR)
- DANISH SHAKIR (PRESIDENT)
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
To inspire, lead and pioneer solutions in educating Latinos and other communities about Islam through media production and grassroots outreach worldwide. Know Us Our Mission Our Story Endorsements Partners Leadership Privacy Policy EN ESPAÑOL Learn Interested in Islam New Muslim Advanced Online Courses LIVE Q&A Belong Houston Media Media Relations Media Production Documentaries News & Press Blog Podcast National Latino Study - ISPU Estudio de Latinos - ISPU Events Houston Centro Event Booking Services Dawah Material/Solicitud de Material Book a Speaker Support Us Construction Project Contact Us DONATE.
What it reported doing in 2025
To educate latinos about islam in the spanish language. Multimedia products were created and made available over the internet. Premises were used for community gatherings and education. In 2020, islaminspanish consistently hosted virtual events in lieu of in- person events, due to the pandemic, totalling over 156 live events online of educational media distribution world-wide. We also increased online viewership reaching on a monthly basis about 2 million plus people through social media which also increased requests for our physical educational materials to be mailed to 250+ people in over 50 countries across 5 continents. We also produced 1200 hours of production for our online new podcast. As a response to covid-19, islaminspanish served the senior citizens by supplying them with groceries and hot meals on a weekly basis and had a mask drive in collaboration with the local girl scouts for the seniors. We continued with our women, teen and senior support groups bringing them together online via zoom. We also distributed warm meals for the general community via a drive-thru method.
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
SUPPORTED - 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: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.7%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 84.7%; rating input score 85
- 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.2%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.16; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83.7% of revenue deployed · 84.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported · 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.