Taqwa Islamic Center
EIN 205595686 · Fremont, CA · — · masjid
Address37272 MAPLE ST, Fremont, CA 94536-4858
Most US masjids are not required to file Form 990
Taqwa Islamic Centermay qualify under the IRS “church exemption” that relieves houses of worship from the public Form 990 filing requirement. That makes the ProPublica financial timeline here sparse by design, it is not a transparency failure. The trade-off is that masjids generally have less public transparency than 501(c)(3)s that do file 990s, so our framing for masjid pages is different:
- 1.Independent audit is the single most important signal.Donation boxes, cash collections, and weekly khutbah envelopes mean money flows that benefit from a third-party audit. We treat a recent audit as the “Gold-tier” signal for masjids, see the Attestations & Audits section below.
- 2.Ethical supplier stack still applies.Even without 990 filings, the masjid’s public website routes through analytics, payment, and hosting vendors, same lens we apply to every org.
- 3.Best-practice gaps are coachable, not punitive.Most masjids don’t have access to the CRMs, accounting software, and donor-management tooling that larger 501(c)(3)s use. The Ihsan Standard engagement track is built for exactly this, a cleanup and capacity path, not a gotcha publication.
The IRS Form 990 for FY 2017 is due ~Nov 15 of the year after the fiscal close, followed by 3–6 months of IRS processing and 6–12 months before the cleaned data is published. FY 2017 should begin appearing here around mid-to-late 2018. A gap between today and the latest filing does not mean the org hasn't filed.
▸Additional financials & ratios
- extended-reserve position (38 mo of expenses)
- High reserves with low investment income (potential idle capital)
Attestations & Audits
Org-supplied disclosures that have been verified by the Ihsan Standard Editorial Council. Every standard has a Gold tier (★) reached via an Ihsan Standard or accepted third-party audit. An empty section means the org has not yet filled it in, not that they fail the standard.
- Zakat methodology disclosurenot yet attested
- Zakāt al-Fitr timeline commitmentnot yet attested
- Qurbānī / Udhiya timeline enforcementnot yet attested
- Kaffāra fulfillment commitmentnot yet attested
- Annual zakat distribution reportnot yet attested
- Orphan-fund segregation (Qurʾānic amāna)not yet attested
- Restricted-purpose fund segregation (honoring the amāna)not yet attested
- Per-donation tracking & fulfillmentnot yet attested
- Supplier-stack cleanup plan filednot yet attested
- Full supplier-stack audit completednot yet attested
- Taʿāwun Procurement Audit. Muslim community vendor pledgenot yet attested
- Khulafāʾ al-Arḍ Environmental Stewardship Auditnot yet attested
Where the money went · FY 2016
Form 990 Part IX (Statement of Functional Expenses) split into the four functional buckets, plus automated anomaly detection across the most-asked donor questions.
Expense breakdown · FY 2016
Total $156KForm 990 Part IX line items we have on file for this filing (compensation totals + fundraising lines). The full functional-expense col-A/B/C/D split (grants, program, admin, fundraising) was not in the structured extract, the residual sits in “Program & operations” below. Reading note: compensation is NOT the same as “admin overhead” , for orgs running clinics (like IMAN’s FQHC), schools, or in-house programs, most of compensation is program work.
- Compensation & benefits$30K · 19.2%
Form 990 Part IX lines 5–10, total staff compensation: salaries & wages, payroll taxes, and benefits across everyone the org pays (program, clinical, and support staff), plus any pay to officers, directors, and key employees. The per-person split, including which officers, if any, are paid, is in the Compensation history section below. For orgs running clinics, schools, or in-house programs, most of this is program work, not admin.
- Program & operations (other)$126K · 80.8%
Total expenses minus compensation and fundraising, the residual covering program supplies, occupancy & utilities, professional fees, beneficiary services, medical supplies (for clinics), travel, equipment, and depreciation. ProPublica's structured extract did not include the Part IX functional split for this filing year; the breakdown PDF reconciles which specific lines went where.
Fundraising efficacy · not the primary lens for this org
Taqwa Islamic Center reports $233K in contributions on only $0 of fundraising spend , a ratio that suggests this org isn't fundraising-driven in the conventional sense. The Form 990 “fundraising expense” line item is meant to capture solicitation costs (telemarketing, direct mail, digital ad spend); for universities, masjids, foundations, and orgs primarily supported by major gifts or program revenue, that line is small or zero, and the resulting “ratio” reads as meaningless.
The right operational-efficiency lens for an org like this is reserves, payroll composition, and program-expense ratio, see the financial-anomalies section and the multi-year trend dashboard.
Year-over-year trends · through FY 2016
Arrow color = direction × good-when-upPer-metric direction and magnitude vs. the prior fiscal year. Where the data goes back far enough, the 3-year compound annual growth rate is included, useful for separating one-off spikes from sustained trends.
- Revenue↓ -49.0% YoY$233Kprior: $456KΔ −$224K3y CAGR -0.3%
Total revenue per Form 990 Part I line 12.
- Contributions↓ -49.0% YoY$233Kprior: $456KΔ −$224K3y CAGR -0.3%
Form 990 Part I line 1h, gifts, grants, and contributions received.
- Total expenses↓ -48.0% YoY$156Kprior: $301KΔ −$144K3y CAGR -7.3%
Form 990 Part I line 18, total functional expenses.
- Top-officer compensation→ n/a$0prior: $0
Form 990 Part IX line 5, aggregate compensation for officers, directors, key employees, and the five highest-paid employees. Growing in line with revenue is expected for healthy orgs; growing faster than revenue is the question worth asking.
- Total compensation & benefits↓ -47.3% YoY$30Kprior: $57KΔ −$27K3y CAGR -1.3%
Officer comp + other salaries + payroll tax, total people-cost of running the org.
- Net assets↑ 66.9% YoY$500Kprior: $300KΔ +$200K3y CAGR +100.3%
Form 990 Part X line 33, assets minus liabilities at year end.
- Months of reserve↑ 220.9% YoY38.4 moprior: 12.0 moΔ +26.4 mo3y CAGR +116.1%
Net assets ÷ (annual expenses ÷ 12). The trend matters more than the absolute number: a falling reserve year-over-year is the early warning sign of fragility, even if it's still above the 3-month floor.
Financial context · plain math
Automated checks across Form 990 Part IX and Part VII Section B. We publish the math and the source; we do not adjudicate intent. Many of these have legitimate explanations specific to the org’s mission, read each card’s context note before forming a judgment. The org has full right of reply.
Extended-reserve position: 38 months of expenses
38 moContextNet assets of $500K ÷ monthly expenses of $13K = 38 months of runway.
ContextSome orgs operate deliberately as educational endowments or grant-making foundations where a multi-year reserve is the target, not a warning. The §A6.5 caveat applies: this figure does not distinguish restricted from unrestricted net assets, so it is an upper bound on truly discretionary months.
Source: Net assets ÷ (expenses ÷ 12)
High reserves with low investment income (potential idle capital)
0.00% returnContextNet assets of $500K produced only $0 of investment income in FY 2016, under 0.5% return on the reserve.
ContextAn endowment-shaped balance sheet whose capital isn't earning is worth a question, but a grant-making foundation that pays out reserves on a 2–3 year cadence may rationally hold cash for upcoming commitments instead of locking it in invested capital. Read this alongside the org's grant cadence.
Source: Investment income (Part VIII line 4) ÷ revenue
Engagement-track path:if a specific explanation fits the org (new-org ramp, capital campaign, FQHC medical-staff payroll, multi-year grant schedule), the org can sign in, attach the supporting filing detail, and a contextual note will publish alongside the relevant card. The numbers stay — the reader gets the reasoning.
▸Multi-year history
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Multi-year history
click to expand| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net assets | Contributions | Officer/KE comp | Inv. income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $233K | $156K | $500K | $233K | $0 | $0 |
| 2014 | $456K | $301K | $300K | $456K | $0 | $0 |
| 2013 | $214K | $196K | $93K | $214K | $34K | $0 |
| 2012 | $234K | $196K | $62K | $234K | $31K | $0 |
| 2011 | $105K | $80K | $24K | $105K | $23K | $0 |
Ethical supplier stack, not yet scanned
scan pendingWe have not yet run the public-website vendor scan for Taqwa Islamic Center. A blank section here is not evidence of a clean supplier stack, it means we don’t have data yet.
Coverage as of today: ~6 / 1,917 cohort orgs scanned. The Ihsan Standard rendered-site scanner is being rolled out across the cohort; the Supplier-Stack Audit (engagement track) covers vendors that don’t appear in public HTML at all (CRM, accounting, ad-tech back-office).
Compensation history
We have the aggregateofficer-comp line from Form 990 Part IX (line 5), the total of compensation paid to current officers, directors, and key employees, but we don’t yet have the per-officer breakdown from Part VII Section A or Schedule J for this org. Per-officer detail requires either a parsed 990 XML (ProPublica indexes e-filed returns; paper-filed returns are slower to surface) or an HTML scrape of ProPublica’s detail page.
| Fiscal year | Officer comp (aggregate) |
|---|---|
| FY 2013 | $34K |
| FY 2012 | $31K |
| FY 2011 | $23K |
Source: ProPublica · Form 990 Part IX line 5 (`compnsatncurrofcr`).
▸Verticals · detected automatically
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Verticals · detected automatically
click to expandSignals automatically extracted from public website data on the org's site, please verify against the source link before relying on any single tag. “Unknown” means no evidence was found, not that the org doesn’t offer it.