Nur Publications
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464372429
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Union City, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5105791454
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Islam
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $147,244
- Expenses
- $149,245
- Assets
- $124,065
- Liabilities
- $121
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SULTAN SALEEM NIAZI (CEO)
People named in this filing
- SULTAN SALEEM NIAZI (CEO)
- AHMAD JOBER TARIN (SECRETARY)
- MOHAMMAD MUSTAFA NABIZAD (CFO)
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 connect people to the transformative power of the books of the people of Allah, and of the scholars who received this knowledge from the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, through an unbroken chain of spiritual masters, and to revive the tradition of Islamic literacy that served as the backbone of Muslim civilization.
What it reported doing in 2025
Nur publications held numerous events throughout the year that tailored around one of their books. Nur publications also gave away over a thousand books mainly to college students and incarcerated individuals. Additionally, nur publications published two books and is in the process of translating, editing and printing several more books in the next coming years.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.4%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $149K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.