Syrian Community Network
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473105667
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- Phone
- 773-654-1218
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Migration, Refugee Issues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,989,119
- Expenses
- $1,839,254
- Assets
- $1,427,196
- Liabilities
- $227,539
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIRAN SIDDIQUI (Vice President)
- GERALD DOYLE (President)
Highest reported compensation
- MAYA ATASSI (Executive Dir.): $97,565 total reported compensation
- SUZANNE AKHRAS (CO-EXEC. DIR.): $55,768 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Syrian Community Network works alongside immigrants and refugees, with care, through needs-based Case Management, Education, and Immigration services.
What it reported doing in 2024
Education The Organization has adult education and youth education programs. The adult education programs for refugees and immigrants at the Organization include ELL instructions for new learners, Citizenship and Civics Preparation, the Womens Support Circle. The Organization also partners with other immigrant-serving organizations, community colleges, and vocational training providers to refer adults for programs that relate to their academic and professional goals. The youth education program offers a variety of youth educational programming for refugee and immigrant children from elementary to young adults, including an afterschool program, online homework room and summer camps, as well as Youth Mentoring, and Education Case Management. The Organizations youth education programs seek to provide a safe and culturally-competent space to help youth learn and grow.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 77% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.7%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 79.6%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.5%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.3%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 73.7% of revenue deployed · 79.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $98K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 41/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.