Twin Cities Iranian Culture Collective
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 845060847
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- New Brighton, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6128020374
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $72,078
- Expenses
- $104,172
- Assets
- $16,582
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jeremy Iggers (executive director)
People named in this filing
- Hossein Jalali (board chair)
- Mo Pailey (vice chair)
- Mehdi Shakouienejad (treasurer)
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 primary exempt purpose of TCICC is to share Iran's rich cultural heritage with the larger Minnesota community. We achieve this purpose through year-round programming that includes concerts, an art exhibition, a fall festival, and partnering with the MSP Film Society on an annual Iranian Film Showcase.
What it reported doing in 2025
Persian Popups - a series of monthly one-day events, including a backgammon night in partnership with the Twin Cities Backgammon club, a tour of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts Persian art collection, a gallery tour and panel discussion, tribal textiles presentation, storytelling night, Tirgan summer festival, dance workshop, etc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 78% for direct work, and 22% for grants.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 75%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -44.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -36.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 75% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $78K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.