Southwest Sufi Community
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850437734
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Silver City, NM, United States
- Phone
- 5755381798
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Islam
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,516
- Expenses
- $51,285
- Assets
- $1,150,319
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Susanna Thomas (President)
People named in this filing
- Patricia Reily (Secretary)
- Susanna Thomas (President)
- Shabda Kahn (Trustee)
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
The Southwest Sufi Community (SSC) is a rural khankah and land-based spiritual community (founded in 1995) that supports an inclusive spiritual path through spiritual training and retreat, along with related offerings such as sacred dance and walk, Ziraat/permaculture, and healing arts. HELP SUPPORT OUR MISSION Our Mission Since 1995, when the SSC was established in fulfillment of the vision of **Hazrat Pir Moineddin Jablonski**, it has endeavored to fulfill this mission:. Since 1995, when the SSC was established in fulfillment of the vision of **Hazrat Pir Moineddin Jablonski**, it has endeavored to fulfill this mission: The Southwest Sufi Community serves as a rural khankah (a building designed specifically for gatherings of a Sufi brotherhood and is a place for spiritual retreat) of caretakers, including families, couples/partners, individuals and young adults, on an inclusive...
What it reported doing in 2025
SSC Summer Camp. A five day in-person residential event consisting of spiritual teachings, meditation, singing, and dancing as part of Sufi teachings. Retreat included Dances of Universal Peace meetings. 86 total participants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.6%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 64.1%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- 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: Pass
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 33.8%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 22.43; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -21% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -25% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 40.6% of revenue deployed · 64.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported · 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $33K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 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 41/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.