Markazul Uloom USA
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993920775
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Buffalo, NY, US
- Phone
- 929-413-9217
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Islam
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,633
- Expenses
- $14,076
- Assets
- $308,357
- Liabilities
- $200,800
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To serve our children, our youths and our elderly’s living in the greater Buffalo New York area. Whether full-time islamic education (i.e. Hifz course, Alim course, Tarbiyah) or part time (after School Maktab, Waqayah, Halaqa and Taleem) we want to benefit every muslim individual/s and family living around us. With ongoing services such as five times Salah, Jummah prayer and extended efforts of Da’wah to our neighbors, family and relationship counseling to married and single muslim will make us vibrant and rejuvenated Ummah. Our occasional and active food pantry (cooked and raw food) will keep us charitable, happy and connected as brothers and sisters.
What it reported doing in 2024
Donation, membeship fees and tuition assistance
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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 - 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: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 11.6%; rating input score 12
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 88.4%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 21.91; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.65; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 12 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 11.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported · 3 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.