QOQNOOS - Phoenix Project Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832923208
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 8582049286
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,836
- Expenses
- $97,041
- Assets
- $131,307
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Armand Ash (President)
- Shima Bozorghi (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Armand Ash (President)
- Shima Bozorghi (Vice President)
- Taghi Alereza (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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
For the first time in Irans history, Qoqnoos Phoenix Project of Iran seeks to bring together serious subject matter experts, scholars and scientists, from thirteen disciplines to forge innovative solutions to Irans challenges. The project will aspire to facilitate the open sharing of information and to advance the role of expertise, scholarly know-how and science in the development and pluralization of the political and democratic process in Iran.Qoqnoos Phoenix Project of Iran will assist subject matter experts better engage in Irans transition towards social, economic, industrial and political modernity by fostering two-way dialogues, building relationships, and facilitating interactions through, and with, the media, the public, and pluralistic groups.Moreover, Qoqnoos Phoenix Project of Iran will seek to empower Iranians by offering them the tools and knowledge to measure and assess the performance of policies, so that accountability can be exercised on policy makers and the politic
What it reported doing in 2023
Since the advent of Islamist rule in 1979, Irans political nature has hindered implementation of national policies based on technical expertise, scientific reference and serious researched-based evaluation of Irans social and economic development needs and requirements. This practice has had consequential effect on Irans economy, industry, infrastructure, social development, natural resources and its environment seriously hampering the aspiration of generations of Iranians.The systematic marginalization of Irans academic, expert and scientific communities away from Irans policy-making infrastructure, for the past four decades, has had momentous effect on every aspect of life for Irans citizenry.While the broad consensus, in all democratic societies, is that good policy is based on informed, fact-based expertise and real data, Islamist governance in Iran devises its national policies based on ideological dogma resulting in paralysis and serious across-the-board setbacks.Standing together as one community of forward thinking Iranian technical experts, engineers, environmentalists, legal scholars, medical experts, scientists and energy experts, all respected leaders in our fields and committed to rigorous scientific research, we find our role as essential and mission-critical to return prosperity, progress and modernity as the path forward for the future for Iran.For the first time in Irans history, Qoqnoos Phoenix Project of Iran seeks to bring together serious subject matter experts, scholars and scientists, from thirteen disciplines to forge innovative solutions to Irans challenges. The project will aspire to facilitate the open sharing of information and to advance the role of expertise, scholarly know-how and science in the development and pluralization of the political and democratic process in Iran.Qoqnoos Phoenix Project of Iran will assist subject matter experts better engage in Irans transition towards social, economic, industrial and political modernity by fostering two-way dialogues, building relationships, and facilitating interactions through, and with, the media, the public, and pluralistic groups.Moreover, Qoqnoos Phoenix Project of Iran will seek to empower Iranians by offering them the tools and knowledge to measure and assess the performance of policies, so that accountability can be exercised on policy makers and the political process: A critical two-way dialogue which is a required necessity for a democratic Iran.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 0
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; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.8%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 54; 54th 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: -85% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.6% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $97K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.