Muslim Sisters of Staten Island
Legal name: Muslim Sisters of Staten Island Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 465695272
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Staten Island, NY, United States
- Phone
- +1 718 619 1365
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking Foundations N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,469
- Expenses
- $41,807
- Assets
- $92,866
- Liabilities
- $11,880
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SAFIYYAH ABDUL-QAWIYY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- TRACY ATKINS-ELABIDA (BOARD PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SAFIYYAH ABDUL-QAWIYY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $6,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Muslim Sisters of Staten Island empowers community through programs that promote diversity, inclusion, and support for all. We are community-based 501c(3) Not- for-Profit Organization founded in 2014. Our Mission is to Empower underserved women and children affected by trauma and other life challenges through civic and community engagement, education, resources, and support. Since our inception in 2014, we have been instrumental in creating programs, services, activities and support that fosters community engagement and relations. Read More. We warmly welcome individuals who are passionate about making a difference to join us in our mission. As a volunteer, you will have the opportunity to contribute your time, skills, and energy towards meaningful initiatives that empower and support communities. Your involvement can help us create real impact. Learn More MSSI.
What it reported doing in 2025
Providing monthly food pantry for families with food insecurity. Providing Arts Culture, with entertainment and special guest speakers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 75.8%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $24.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 14th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -46.9%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.22; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.4%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -44.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -26.3% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 88th 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: 100% of revenue deployed · 75.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported · 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $6K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.