The Ark Institute
Legal name: The Ark Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 211229180
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Sanford, FL, USA
- Phone
- 6318359396
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $194,920
- Expenses
- $225,133
- Assets
- $483,165
- Liabilities
- $513,378
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Syed Rizvi (Director)
- Sameer Peera (Director)
- Aqil Unia (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
To create an environment where students establish a strong Islamic foundation through the teachings of the Qur’an and the Ahlulbayt (A.S.), gaining a deep understanding of their faith and being prepared for future challenges. For more information, please e-mail us at [email protected]. The Ark Institute © 2020 Go to Top. _Founded in 2007, The Ark Institute has always strived to provide more for its Islamic communities as a non-profit organization. We wish to provide learning and education as an Islamic Sunday School that will foster the youth into the great people we all know they can be. After successfully operating an institution in New York for many years, we decided to branch out and open an Islamic Sunday School in Orlando._ > > **“Empower the youth with an enriched educational experience based on universal moral principles to foster mutual respect, compassion, and...
What it reported doing in 2025
Religious organization to impart religious education / Public Charity - 170(b)(1)(a)(vi).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 76% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.15; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.06; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $225K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.