Maine Muslim Community Center
EIN 030574344 · Portland, ME · — · masjid
Address118 ANDERSON ST, Portland, ME 04101-2546
Mission · 990 Part I
“TO SERVE THE RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL NEEDS OF THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN MAINE AND TO PROMOTE BETTER RELATIONS AND UNDERSTANDING OF ISLAM AMONG NON-MUSLIMS BY ELIMINATING MISUNDERSTANDINGS ABOUT ISLAM AND MUSLIMS.”
Most US masjids are not required to file Form 990
Maine Muslim Community 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 2024 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 2024 should begin appearing here around mid-to-late 2025. A gap between today and the latest filing does not mean the org hasn't filed.
▸Additional financials & ratios
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
Filing observations & context
1 concerningSpecific datapoints from Maine Muslim Community Center's most recent IRS Form 990 that warrant a closer look. Each item is computed directly from the org's own public filing, we explain what the datapoint is, what it might mean, and the legitimate reasons it could be present. Read these as context, not conclusions.
- Board-count mismatch on the filingconcerning
Part I reports 0 voting board members but Part VII lists 9 officers/directors.
What this meansPart I of the Form 990 (the cover section) lists zero voting board members, while Part VII (the officer-and-director roster on a later page) names three or more individuals serving as officers or directors.
Why it matters (and what it might not mean)These two sections of the same return should agree. When they don't, it's most often a clerical filing error and reconciles in the next year. Worth noting because the cover-section field is what regulators and rating services scrape first, so a zero there can quietly affect downstream classifications.
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{ "voting_members": 0, "officers_listed": 9 }
Where the money went · FY 2023
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 2023
Total $247KForm 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$68K · 27.6%
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)$179K · 72.4%
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
Maine Muslim Community Center reports $213K 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.
No financial anomalies surfaced
For the most recent fiscal year on file, the automated checks (fundraising-cost ratio, single-contractor concentration, reserve adequacy, officer-comp share) did not flag anything. This is the default state for most orgs and is meaningful, it means the math on Form 990 Part IX and Part VII Section B doesn’t require an explanation.
▸Multi-year history
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Multi-year history
click to expand| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net assets | Contributions | Officer/KE comp | Inv. income |
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| 2023 | $213K | $247K | $83K | $213K | $0 | $0 |
Ethical supplier stack, not yet scanned
scan pendingWe have not yet run the public-website vendor scan for Maine Muslim Community 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
Form 990 Part VII Section A · 1 filing on record
Every officer, director, key employee, and highest-compensated employee with reported pay. Recent year is shown by default, switch tabs for prior years or the unique-people roll-up.
▸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.
In their own words · Schedule O
Supplemental narratives the org wrote on IRS Form 990 Schedule O, program-activity descriptions, governance explanations, and answers to specific 990 line items. Useful primary-source context that doesn’t fit into the structured fields elsewhere on this page.
- Form 990 governing body review Part VI line 11FY 2023
YES,A DRAFT RETURN IS PROVIDED TO ENTITY REPRESENTATIVE PERSON FOR REVIEW BEFORE IT SUBMITING TO IRS.
- Governing documents etc available to public Part VI line 19FY 2023
YES, ENTITY DOCUMENT ARE AVIALABLE FOR ELIGIBLE PERSON ON DEMAND.