Muslims Serve

Legal name: Muslims Serve Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
475170613
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Pennsauken Township, NJ, USA
Phone
833-486-4370
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Food Programs
Affiliation
Islam

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$94,169
Expenses
$88,535
Assets
$379,379
Liabilities
$3,047

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • HAMZA SHAIKH (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • HAMZA SHAIKH (PRESIDENT)
  • ZAHID SYED (TREASURER)
  • FATHEMA IBRAHIM (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

Ultimately, although our non-profit hunger organization is faith-based, our doors are open to all people with pure intentions. No matter their gender, age, faith, beliefs, or social backgrounds, we strive to help. Our base of volunteers and beneficiaries consists of both Muslims and non-Muslims. Hence, if you want to help the disadvantaged local communities in Philadelphia, our organization will connect you with like-minded people. This will enable you to act upon your desire to create positive social change. In addition, we partner with any organization that will allow us to continue to work towards our charitable mission. We will help partners connect with other organizations that would ul.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provide meals to homeless and others in need in the philadelphia region.

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 - 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: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 52
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
  • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.29; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 84% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported · 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $79K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.