Designed to help you reach ihsan — not to publicly shame you for missing it.
The audit is currently in pilot. We’re onboarding a small cohort of nonprofits and businesses one at a time so we can deliver each engagement carefully. New requests join a waitlist— we’ll be in touch as a slot opens. The conversation, NDA, and scoping call are all free.
The Ihsan Standard audit is done under an NDA. We’re here to evaluate the operational reality of a Muslim nonprofit or business — financials, money-collection processes, distribution mechanisms, vendors, banking, investments — and hand back a concrete, prioritized list of changes that bring the org closer to the bar. Nothing gets published unless you choose to publish it. Our intention is that the audit ends with the org stronger, quieter problems fixed, and donors with real ground for trust.
NDA-backed, scoped to your real situation, and never about public shaming.
Every audit starts with a mutual NDA. We don’t publish anything we find unless the org explicitly chooses to publish it. We scope to the surfaces that matter — for a relief org that’s zakat handling, fee leakage, sub-grantee pipeline; for a masjid it’s cash collection, restricted-fund honor, scholar consultation, tech stack; for a business it’s zakat on assets, vendor sourcing, halal claims, and community give-back.
- 1Engage
Mutual NDA. A scoping call to understand the org's actual operations — donation flow, vendor stack, board structure, banking, programs, where you feel the most uncertain.
- 2Evaluate
We work through financials, collection mechanisms, distribution, sub-grantees, vendor relationships, and tech / investment exposure against the 10 published standards. Specific, evidenced, and itemised.
- 3Implement
We hand back a prioritized list — quick wins (cheaper donation processor, ethical vendor swaps), medium lifts (program bucketing, scholar attestation), and long arcs (waqf creation, divestment from shariah-non-compliant holdings). You drive the timeline.
What we typically find — and what we hand back.
- Donation pipeline transparency
Our Muslim Nonprofit CRM traces every donation from the donor's card, through processing fees, into the program bucket they chose, and out to the project on the ground — tied to impact. Every donation gets its own public tracking link the donor can revisit. Replaces vague annual reports with per-dollar visibility; the kind of standard the ummah can set for the rest of the world. Free for the pilot — see the Toolkit.
- Fee leakage
Many orgs are bleeding 3–5% on premium donation buttons or expensive payment processors when better halal-compatible alternatives exist. We identify the leak and the swap. Group procurement across the network can compound the savings to $6M+/yr sector-wide on payment processing alone.
- Ethical vendor swaps
Tech stack on a transition plan off boycotted vendors (Wix, Microsoft, Google, AWS) where alternatives exist. Banking moved out of interest-bearing operating accounts. Where Muslim-owned or community vendors meet the bar, we surface them — money recirculates inside the community.
- Zakat handling discipline
Zakat funds reserved for the eight Qur'ānic categories, not bleeding into admin and building expenses. The public zakat informational page reflects actual practice instead of being vague cover. Zakat al-fitr cleanly closed by the eid prayer; qurbani timing publicly stamped so donors know when their tied actions can be performed.
- Mosque cash-collection oversight
A documented framework for how jumuʿah-night cash is counted, witnessed, recorded, and bucketed against donor intent. Program designations honored. An independent reporting line so donors can see their money landed where they intended it.
- Sustainable donation infrastructure
Waqf established or a credible plan toward one — we recommend Afterfund (afterfund.co), a digital waqf platform that invests donations in a halal fund and routes the perpetual profits back to the cause. DAF acceptance set up — we recommend AMCF (amuslimcf.org), the American Muslim Community Foundation, which runs shariah-compliant Donor Advised Funds and an endowment vehicle for orgs that want to anchor a long-term reserve. Stock-receipt capability so the maximum dollar reaches the project instead of evaporating into capital-gains tax. The pipeline made durable rather than dependent on the next campaign.
- Khulafāʾ al-Arḍ stewardship
Environmental audit in collaboration with the Art and Wilderness Institute — what the operation pulls from the earth, what it pushes back, what to substitute. Stewardship of the earth applied to a nonprofit's real footprint.
- Surveillance-tech protection
Protection audit for the people in your building and on your donor list. On the digital side: strips 'Sign in with Google' and similar SSO from donate pages, audits tracking pixels, and rebuilds the donor flow so the act of giving doesn't become a surveillance event downstream. On the physical side: reviews how video cameras are deployed in the masjid — placement, retention windows, who has access to the footage, and which feeds (if any) are exposed to vendors or third-party services — plus any other building systems (Wi-Fi captive portals, badge-in tech, license-plate readers in the lot) that could quietly enroll the congregation into surveillance infrastructure. The goal is the safety and dignity of congregants in an age where what used to be a private act of worship can be logged, retained, and shared without anyone's consent.
What the business audit covers.
- Corporate zakat on inventory and assets
Most Muslim businesses owe zakat on their inventory, receivables, and cash reserves — and most don't have a clean accounting for it. We work through the calculation with you against the published methodology, set the hawl, document the practice, and surface it as a public credential.
- No interest-bearing accounts
Every account on the balance sheet — operating, savings, treasury sweep, money-market — gets audited for interest exposure. Where conventional accounts are accruing riba, we identify the shariah-compliant substitute (current account, qard-hasan deposit, AAOIFI-aligned facility) and walk the transition with you.
- Shariah-compliant investments + community-harm screening
Reserves and treasury holdings audited for shariah compliance AND community-harm exposure — atrocity-complicit holdings, surveillance-tech contractors, conventional insurance underwriting. Where legacy positions don't meet the bar, we document a divestment plan with a credible timeline. Investment-policy statement and screening framework named publicly.
- Ethical / community vendor preference
Vendor stack reviewed for both ethics and community fit. Where a Muslim-owned or community supplier meets or exceeds the commercial alternative, we surface the swap. Money recirculates inside the community when the quality is there.
- Halal claims that hold up
If the label says halal, we trace it: issuer cert on file, scope of the cert, expiration, and how the day-to-day operation matches what the cert covers. The dimension most easily faked without an issuer-side check.
- Community give-back commitment
A public, verifiable commitment to community giving — pledge + realised — that customers can see and reward. The engagement loop the standard is designed to make legible.
On top of the nonprofit audit — the mosque-specific surface.
A masjid is more than a 501(c)(3) — it’s the lived community space. The mosque audit layers a community-health framework on top of the standard nonprofit audit, focused on what congregants and donors actually experience.
- Community-health framework
Audit against the published 30+ community-health standards: all five fard salat in jamaa'ah (not just jumu'ah), sisters' prayer space with respect and dignity, ghusl facility, funeral and nikah services, food pantry, iftar in Ramadan, zakat collection and distribution, counseling, weekend school, hifz program, dawah, named imam — and the harder ones too like sister programming, senior programming, mental-health support, reentry support, marriage and conflict mediation.
- Iqamah times — transparent + maintainable
Iqamah times that are easy for congregants to find, public on the masjid's own website, and accurate to the actual practice. Ihsan Standard provides a free, customizable iqamah-times tool — fixed times, offset-from-prayer rules, day-of-week overrides — that the masjid admin can embed on the masjid website with one line. No more outdated jumu'ah times pinned to the wall and forgotten online.
- Cash collection oversight
A documented framework for how jumu'ah-night and Ramadan-cash is counted, witnessed, recorded, and bucketed against donor intent. Multiple-signer collection, restricted-fund honor for fitra / qurbani / building / general, and an independent reporting line so donors can trace their giving.
- Civic engagement
Does the masjid support the local Muslim ecosystem — Muslim-owned local businesses, the local civic infrastructure, the community around it? Community door-knocking and get-out-the-vote programs where appropriate. The masjid as anchor of the neighborhood, not just a Friday-only building.
- Imam attestation + scholar consultation
A named imam, with an identifiable line of training (ijazas where they exist), publicly disclosed. For fiqh questions the masjid administers — zakat eligibility, fidya/kaffara pricing, qurbani timing — a clear public answer to which scholars are consulted.
- Donor protection on collections
Donor data on online giving forms architected to protect donors from big-tech surveillance — no 'Sign in with Google' on the donate page, no Meta Pixel logging zakat amounts, no third-party analytics scripts watching the donation flow. Donating to your masjid shouldn't be a surveillance event.
What changes when an org reaches the bar.
- More money saved, more money raised
Lower processing fees, lower banking fees, the right donation infrastructure for high-net-worth giving (DAF, stock, waqf). Less leaving the org as overhead, more reaching the program.
- More operational efficiency
Vendor stack rationalized, banking cleaned up, software where it makes sense and people where it matters. The org runs lighter and the staff have time to do the work that needs them.
- Donor trust that holds up
Every donor who gave for a thing can see that thing was delivered. The zakat dollars do zakat work. The qurbani happened on time. The masjid cash made it to the program it was given for. Trust earned at the per-donation level, not just the annual-report level.
- Visible community standing
Audited masjids and businesses get featured listings on NoorMap — pinned brighter, surfaced higher, audit badge visible at a glance. Real community credit for real community-grade operations.
- Protection against surveillance
Donors and projects insulated from the big-tech surveillance architecture the rest of the web defaults to. The act of giving doesn't become a data event that follows the donor for years.
- A sustainable infrastructure
The pipeline is durable. Waqf in place or being built. Shariah-compliant reserves growing. Endowment growing because the discipline is in place, not because the next campaign hit.
Join the waitlist.
The engagement track is free, and the audit is in pilot — we onboard one org at a time so we can deliver each engagement carefully. The conversation, NDA, and scoping call all happen up front; the engagement begins when a slot opens. Published gaps are the last resort, not the first move.