Nebraska Islamic Foundation
EIN 470791432 · Lincoln, NE · — · foundation
AddressPO BOX 29543, Lincoln, NE 68529-0543
Mission · 990 Part I
“RELIGIOUS - TO PROVIDE ORIENTATION AND SOCIAL SUPPORT FOR NEW IMMIGRANTS, TO PROVIDE COMMUNITY EDUCATION, TO PROVIDE COUNSELING TO IMMIGRANTS ON A VOLUNTEER BASIS, TO PROVIDE A PLACE FOR WORSHIP”
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
- extended-reserve position (132 mo of expenses)
- Net assets are 13.3× annual revenue
- 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
Filing observations & context
1 concerningSpecific datapoints from Nebraska Islamic Foundation'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 3 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": 3 }
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 $43KForm 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.
- Program & operations (other)$43K · 100.0%
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
Nebraska Islamic Foundation reports $35K 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 2023
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↑ 269.8% YoY$35Kprior: $10KΔ +$26K3y CAGR -21.2%
Total revenue per Form 990 Part I line 12.
- Contributions↑ 281.3% YoY$35Kprior: $9KΔ +$26K3y CAGR -20.9%
Form 990 Part I line 1h, gifts, grants, and contributions received.
- Investment income↓ -100.0% YoY$0prior: $287Δ −$287
Form 990 Part VIII line 4, interest, dividends, and other investment earnings on the org's reserve. For orgs with material reserves, a healthy investment-income trend indicates capital is actually working; near-zero income on a large reserve raises the 'idle capital' question.
- Total expenses↓ -16.9% YoY$43Kprior: $51KΔ −$9K3y CAGR +5.9%
Form 990 Part I line 18, total functional expenses.
- Total compensation & benefits→ n/a$0prior: $0
Officer comp + other salaries + payroll tax, total people-cost of running the org.
- Net assets↑ 37.6% YoY$470Kprior: $342KΔ +$128K3y CAGR +5.7%
Form 990 Part X line 33, assets minus liabilities at year end.
- Months of reserve↑ 65.5% YoY132.4 moprior: 80.0 moΔ +52.4 mo3y CAGR -0.1%
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.
Net assets are 13.3× annual revenue
13.3×Context$470K of net assets against $35K of FY 2023 revenue.
ContextFoundations, endowments, and grant-makers (AMCF, Pillars Fund, etc.) intentionally hold multi-year reserves so they can grant strategically over time. A 5–20× ratio is normal for an endowment-shaped balance sheet. Read this in the context of the org's mission, operating charity vs. foundation, not as a default red flag.
Source: Net assets (Form 990 Part X line 33) ÷ revenue (Part I line 12)
Extended-reserve position: 132 months of expenses
132 moContextNet assets of $470K ÷ monthly expenses of $4K = 132 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 $470K produced only $0 of investment income in FY 2023, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $35K | $43K | $470K | $35K | $0 | $0 |
| 2022 | $10K | $51K | $342K | $9K | $0 | $287 |
| 2021 | $16K | $46K | $378K | $16K | $0 | $689 |
| 2020 | $72K | $36K | $397K | $71K | $0 | $967 |
| 2019 | $98K | $65K | $376K | $95K | $0 | $3K |
| 2018 | $72K | $57K | $340K | $70K | $0 | $2K |
| 2017 | $56K | $61K | $316K | $56K | $0 | $560 |
| 2016 | $37K | $55K | $315K | $36K | $0 | $551 |
| 2015 | $44K | $39K | $320K | $43K | $0 | $530 |
| 2014 | $61K | $35K | $315K | $61K | $0 | $492 |
| 2013 | $105K | $36K | $288K | $105K | $0 | $415 |
| 2012 | $118K | $48K | $215K | $118K | $0 | $213 |
| 2011 | $55K | $30K | $140K | $55K | $0 | $246 |
Ethical supplier stack, not yet scanned
scan pendingWe have not yet run the public-website vendor scan for Nebraska Islamic Foundation. 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 · 2 filings 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.
- VIII LINE 1FFY 2024
INCOME FROM 3 BANK ACCOUNTS
- IX LINE 5FY 2024
SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS
- PART XI LINE 5FY 2024
INCREASE IN CONTRIBUTIONS AND ADDITIONAL ASSET PURCHASED