Palestinian American Society of Engineers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 301291537
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Orland Park, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3125204930
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $615
- Expenses
- $2,022
- Assets
- $40,930
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- OSAMA AMOUS (PRESIDENT - EXEC. COMM.)
People named in this filing
- OSAMA AMOUS (PRESIDENT - EXEC. COMM.)
- KHALID AL SAMARA (DIRECTOR)
- ZIAD ZATAR (SECRETARY - EXEC. COMM.)
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
The Palestinian American Society of Engineers (PASE) shall be a non-profit, non-political, affiliated professional trade association with missions and goals to: enhance the technical and social capabilities of Palestinian American Engineers through active participation; provide guidance to engineering students in their respective career trajectories; promote social and professional networking channels with fellow engineers; and foster a sense of identity among Palestinian American Engineers and build relationships among members in the US and abroad.
What it reported doing in 2025
Held two industry vendor meetngs to explore ev power source technology & its current applications in stressed society settings while soliciting grants
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 32
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43.1%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 13.1%; rating input score 13
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -228.8%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 20.24; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -181.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -194.6% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 43.1% of revenue deployed · 13.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $265 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.