Pak American Charities Ltd
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871070087
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Elgin, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8473230800
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $209,428
- Expenses
- $74,203
- Assets
- $628,222
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nasreen Iqbal (President)
People named in this filing
- Nasreen Iqbal (President)
- Mohammad Iqbal (Board secretary and Treasurer)
- Sarah Mostajeran (Director)
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
Organized to help alleviate poverty in Country of Pakistan by helping educate orphans and other needy students entry level job preparation thru computer literacy vocational training and improving their commands of English language. The organization is authorized by the Government of Pakistan to open an office in Pakistan and serve ion one assigned district and not throughout the country. As such the organization is concentrating on one underprivileged community. The government requires that the organizations account should be audited by an independent accountant which the organization is complying with
What it reported doing in 2025
Our organization has proudly granted scholarships to more than 29 deserving students enabling them to pursue higher education in fields like nursing medicine pharmacy computer science and civil engineering. These scholarships have been instrumental in supporting individuals facing severe financial hardship with a particular focus on empowering underprivileged female students and orphaned youths hailing from rural communities. By providing these opportunities we are not only helping these students achieve their academic aspirations but also fostering positive change within their communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 80% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 87
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.2%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Pass
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 64.6%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.47; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.2% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $74K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 43 of 44 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.