Knowledge Is Light Foundation
Legal name: Knowledge Is Light Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822059824
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Smyrna, GA, USA
- Phone
- +1770 231 0319
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $500
- Expenses
- $1,490
- Assets
- $1,010
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EBRIMA HYDARA (CEO)
People named in this filing
- EBRIMA HYDARA (CEO)
- MARIAMA MBALLOW (DIRECTOR)
- SAIHOU CEESAY (DIRECTOR)
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 have an educational institution that teaches and nurtures the "whole" child - intellectually, emotionally and physically, and to instill in each student the principles of submission to the Will of Allah.
What it reported doing in 2025
Expenses to feed the children
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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: 82
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -198%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 72% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.5% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.