Muppies
Legal name: Muppies Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472761990
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 8144462435
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies & Associations
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $146,772
- Expenses
- $129,088
- Assets
- $295,478
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NAIEL IQBAL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- NAIEL IQBAL (PRESIDENT)
- SAIMA AKHTER (DIRECTOR)
- ALI KHAN (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
Muppies is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering and advancing Muslim professionals to be leaders in their careers and communities, through a global network and professional development opportunities. Since 2006, Muppies members have strived to empower and advance Muslim professionals in their careers and communities. Muppies envisions a global community of professionals that supports the advancement of Muslim leaders in private, public, and nonprofit sectors. Muppies offers Muslim professionals –in leadership tracks in business, entrepreneurship, government, and nonprofit– professional development opportunities, networking opportunities, and in-person and online support. The Muppies network is comprised of Muslims following similar leadership paths, providing practical advice to help other members maximize their careers. We recognize that, while strong skills and...
What it reported doing in 2025
Muppies built on its long term foundation and community to host 1) an annual symposium, 2) career development events, and 3) education programs around investment banking, consulting, and transitioning from tech to business. Muppies continues to grow its volunteer network to power and manage these programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.29; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 88% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $129K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.