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CAIR NATIONAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC

EIN 82-0922964 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2024
$249,901
Expenses 2024
$203,133

Program services were 97.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R20
Classification
1000
Street
453 NEW JERSEY AVE SE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE CORPORATION WAS CREATED TO: (1) ENSURE THAT THE INTERESTS AND POSITIONS OF THE AMERICAN MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN THE UNITED STATES ARE REPRESENTED, UNDERSTOOD AND RESPECTED, (2) RAISE AWARENESS WITHIN THE AMERICAN SOCIETY ABOUT ISLAM AND THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY, (3) ACT AS A LEGAL AND ADVOCACY GROUP TO PROTECT THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF MUSLIMS, (4) COOPERATE WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS HAVING SIMILAR OBJECTIVES AND PURPOSES, (5) PROVIDE LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO MUSLIMS WHERE THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS WERE BEING VIOLATED. AND (6) PROVIDE GENERAL COUNSEL LEGAL SERVICES TO CAIR-FOUNDATION, INC. INCLUDING ADVICE AND CONSULTATION REGARDING DAY-TO-DAY LEGAL ISSUES AND MATTERS CAIR WILL ENCOUNTER.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDES LEGAL SUPPORT TO MEMBERS OF THE MUSLIM-AMERICAN POPULATION

  • DURING THE TAX YEAR, THE CAIR NATIONAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND ENSURED THAT THE INTERESTS AND POSITIONS OF THE AMERICAN MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN THE UNITED STATES ARE REPRESENTED, UNDERSTOOD AND RESPECTED; RAISED AWARENESS WITHIN THE AMERICAN SOCIETY ABOUT ISLAM AND THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY; ACTED AS A LEGAL AND ADVOCACY GROUP TO PROTECT THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF MUSLIMS; COOPERATED WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS HAVING SIMILAR OBJECTIVES AND PURPOSES; PROVIDED LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO MUSLIMS WHERE THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS WERE BEING VIOLATED.

    Expenses $197,482 · Revenue $249,901

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Roula Allouch

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lena Masri

    DIRECTOR/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $198,948
    From this org
    $11,865
    From related orgs
    $173,021
    Other
    $14,062
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $173,021 related
    Bonus
    $11,865
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $7,138 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $6,924 related
    Filer's total
    $11,865 + $187,083 related
  • John Floyd

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related
  • Mariam Aladdin-Albakaye

    CONTROLLER

    Total calculated
    $179,972
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $148,473
    Other
    $31,499
    Hours/week
    0.75 + 39.25 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $148,473 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $5,849 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $25,650 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $179,972 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $249,901
    Expenses
    $203,133
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $84,541
    Expenses
    $191,577
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,369
    Expenses
    $189,297
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $102,962
    Expenses
    $69,598
    Assets (EOY)
    $69,750
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $66,072
    Expenses
    $100,879
    Assets (EOY)
    $132,897
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $433,962
    Expenses
    $264,222
    Assets (EOY)
    $327,086
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $197,762
    Expenses
    $46,458
    Assets (EOY)
    $163,580
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $6,500
    Expenses
    $664
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,336

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.