Muslim Community Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237060038
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, United States
- Phone
- (773) 725-9047
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Islam
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,030,817
- Expenses
- $11,127,281
- Assets
- $23,931,708
- Liabilities
- $5,037,245
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MASOOD BIJAPURI (PRESIDENT)
- DR SABA KHAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- HABEEB QUADRI (SUPRINTENDANT): $136,935 total reported compensation
- SAAD QUADRI (IMAM): $117,421 total reported compensation
- SALIK REHMANI (ACCOUNTANT): $95,232 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Muslim Community Center (MCC) exists to uphold, preserve, and disseminate Islamic faith and values, governing its work through Islamic principles (including the Qur’an and Sunnah) with mutual consultation (shoora). MCC/MEC Mission & Vision For the upholding, preservation and dissemination of the faith “Lailaha Illallahu Muhammadur Rasoolullah” and the principles and practices of the religion of Islam, we, the Muslims of Greater Chicago, do hereby establish this organization. To the end that this body must be governed in an orderly manner consistent with the accepted tenets of Islam, and strictly within the framework thereof, we do declare and enact these bylaws. Any activity contrary to or in conflict with the Qur’an and the ‘Sunnah’ shall not be permitted within, or under the auspices of this organization. The principle of shoora (mutual consultation) shall be the governing...
What it reported doing in 2024
Mcc part time school (pts) system caters sunday schools one at the mcc location and the other at mec one saturday school at mcc location and one dar-ul-uloom school at mec. Saturday and sunday schools typically run from 10am to 2pm whereas darul-ul-uloom schools run monday through friday 5pm through 7pm. Each school is run by dedicated teachers. In saturday and sunday schools we have standard curriculum. Dar-ul-uloom school have developing standardized curriculum as well. Each school teaches quran recitation with rules and regulations akhlaq aqaid and ibadaat along with islamic history and narratives of prophets.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 62% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 86% 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. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 93.4%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $40.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 38.8%; rating input score 39; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.5%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.15; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 87% of revenue deployed · 93.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported · 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $10.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $137K · 25 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 31 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 28 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 39/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.