The Muslim Group
Legal name: Muslim Group of USA and Canada
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 912069275
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Irvine, CA, USA
- Phone
- (313) 356-6006
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $141,391
- Expenses
- $184,285
- Assets
- $19,856
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR GHASSAN ZALZALEH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DR GHASSAN ZALZALEH (PRESIDENT)
- ZUHAIR KADHEM (SECRETARY)
- MOHAMMAD E MORTADA (TRUSTEE)
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 unite Muslims across North America by providing spaces for learning, connection, and inspiration, strengthening the Muslim community and celebrating the beauty of Islamic teachings.
What it reported doing in 2025
National Conference: is an intellectual religious event to benefit the entire Muslim family in the US and Canada. At the conference, a religious contemporary social/religious issue is addressed by invited academic and religious scholars. Lectures, workshops, and other sessions are held for adults, youth, and children. This event is held once a year at a selected hotel in a US city centrally located to all states.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.4%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -30.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.9% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $181K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 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 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.