Salaam Cultural Museum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911481782
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2065457307
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $714,540
- Expenses
- $540,462
- Assets
- $371,013
- Liabilities
- $-33,059
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rita Zawaideh (President)
- Elizabeth Abuhayder (Vice President)
- Dr Jere Bacharach (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Rita Zawaideh (President)
- Scott Davis (Secretary)
- Elizabeth Abuhayder (Vice President)
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
Salamm cultural meuseum mission is to gather and publish information on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and to promote understanding of the people, cultures, languages, religions, and lands of this region.
What it reported doing in 2024
Medical Mission; In 2016 SCM conducted one mission to Jordan and then moved our operations to Greece. An assessment team was sent to the island of Lesbos in late August of 2015 to see what services SCM could provide. The team consisted of several past members of our missions, including doctors, first responders, humanitarians, and logistics personnel. From the beginning of October 2015 SCM maintained a continuous presence on the island of Lesbos to aid the refugees making the dangerous crossing from Turkey to Greece. Our expenditures for this operation included the cost of sending the initial assessment team, then the expenses to maintain one coordinator on the ground at all times transportation, lodging, food a van for the team to get around in, fuel, medical and humanitarian supplies, food for the refugees, medications, etc. We also had expenses of excess baggage to transport as much as we could to excess baggage to transport as much as we could to of excess baggage to transport as much as we could to the teams with incoming volunteers. Nonmedical team members provided psychosocial relief to various locations for women and children
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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
SUPPORTED - Most voting board members are independent and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 58
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 64.7%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.4%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49% of revenue deployed · 64.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $350K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 49/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.