Northstar School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 710946078
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Hayward, CA, US
- Phone
- (510) 397-1501
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Specialized Education Institutions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,178,614
- Expenses
- $1,938,445
- Assets
- $4,434,162
- Liabilities
- $1,828,959
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Yama Achikzai (Board Member)
- Mohammad Omar Arsala (Secretary)
- Omar Nawaz (Treasurer)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Northstar School aims to promote human excellence by cultivating students, in every grade level, to possess a well-trained mind, healthy body, good manners, and exceptional character.
What it reported doing in 2024
Northstar continued its work for another year, taking on the challenges of educating our Muslim youth as we have for years, but also working to refine and improve our approach to meet the unique needs of young people in our time. We worked to refine our curriculum and program approaches across all our academic and AQI studies. In an effort to improve our effectiveness, we focused on increasing our staff along with their resources and capacity. We continued to follow-up on our multi-year plans as laid out in our WASC accreditation school plan, and worked with consultants on our masterplan design for our future campus development. We made some major upgrade to our campus and had successful community engagement programs. Some of those included International Day, Jog-a-thon, Back to School night, and Family Mawlids. We are excited by the continued growth and progress of the school and its team.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.1%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 82.9%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- 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: 11%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.29; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 74.1% of revenue deployed · 82.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported · 5 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.