Masjid Bilal
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813764057
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Jersey City, NJ, United States
- Phone
- 2018441624
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Islam
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $636,449
- Expenses
- $64,207
- Assets
- $612,681
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
People named in this filing
- Alidu Andani (Board Chairman)
- Umar Shikh (Vice Chaiman)
- Iddrisu Adam (Secretary)
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
Since 2006 Masjid Bilal began its work to serve the community. We believe that a mosque, the house of Allah, are houses of learning and worship for all. We currently have two Juma every Friday so to accommodate our growing population. Aside the prayers we also have Week Quran and and Arabic studies. We also provide circular education for children who are falling behind in the regular school. Our community is a diverse community with majority living with baseline household income. Due our community exponential growth and being that our current location is a rental property we found an old church which is bigger and better than when we are now and we are in contract to buy the building so therefore we need donations/ support to purchase the property. The.
What it reported doing in 2025
Masjid Bilal conducted the five daily Islamic prayers throughout the year and provided weekend and evening Islamic studies for children youth and adults
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 - 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: 39
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 92
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 10.1%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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: 60%; rating input score 60; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- 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: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 89.9%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.54; rating input score 91; 91st 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: 155.1% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 175.2% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 10.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported · 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $64K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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 10/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.