The Arab American Bar Association Scholarship Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 932984169
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3129091127
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Graduate, Professional Schools (Separate Entities)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $129,225
- Expenses
- $51,112
- Assets
- $183,717
- Liabilities
- $38
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DONNA HADDAD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DONNA HADDAD (PRESIDENT)
- NURA YANAKI (DIRECTOR)
- CHRISTINA SCANLON HADDAD (DIRECTOR)
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
The corporation is organized for charitable and educational purposes directed toward the support, education, and caring for qualified persons of arab heritage who have expressed a desire and intention to pursue education in the legal profession and have been recognized by the corporation for such desire and intention, including for such purposes, but without limitation, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, or corresponding section of any future federal tax code.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization hosted a gala dinner fundraising event to support its law student scholarship program. Proceeds from the event helped fund 20,000 in scholarships awarded to five deserving law students pursuing their legal education.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 85
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 99.5%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 60.4%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.59; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 51.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 42% of revenue deployed · 99.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $51K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.