Sirat Chicago
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474847984
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7738074085
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Islam
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $37,092
- Expenses
- $43,103
- Assets
- $195,542
- Liabilities
- $251
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SAADIA SHAH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SAADIA SHAH (PRESIDENT)
- HANNAH EL AMIN (TREASURER)
- AMIR SUFI (SECRETARY)
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
Sirat is a neighborhood space that supports independent initiatives around arts, education, service and community building; it encourages community service and religious engagement in the spirit of confidently engaging our Muslim tradition. Sirat is a neighborhood space that supports independent initiatives around arts, education, service and community building. We encourage community service and religious engagement, all in the spirit of confidently engaging our Muslim tradition. Support Sirat hopes to be a reliable community partner and resource for a variety of groups, programs, individuals and congregations around the neighborhood. Supporting and encouraging a creative, inclusive, authentic expression of community life is what drives us.
What it reported doing in 2025
Supports independent initiatives around arts, education, service and community building.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 26
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 41%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: Limited
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: -16.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.54; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 41% of revenue deployed
- Governance: 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- 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 41/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.