Centro De Recursos Educativos Para Adultos Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824149759
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9292707741
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $129,135
- Expenses
- $187,752
- Assets
- $142,559
- Liabilities
- $9,627
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARIA GUADALUPE MARTINEZ (FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- STEPHAN RUSSO (PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
People named in this filing
- MARIA GUADALUPE MARTINEZ (FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- STEPHAN RUSSO (PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
- DAVA WEINSTEIN (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Centro de recursos educativos para adultos, inc. (crea) provides culturally competent education and adult literacy programs for hispanic and latino immigrants in east harlem and beyond, serving more than 300 adult students through weekly classes, workshops, and community resources at the east harlem neighborhood health action center in upper manhattan, New York city. Its mission is to empower students through education, expand pathways to socioeconomic mobility, and strengthen community engagement.
What it reported doing in 2025
Crea's classes include basic education in spanish, esl, ged preparation, computer literacy, and citizenship. Crea is recognized by the government of mexico (inea and sep) as a plaza comunitaria, a program that utilizes a curriculum developed by mexico's national institute for adult education (inea) for hispanic and latino immigrants in the united states as a means to attain literacy, as well as accreditation for primary (1-6th grade) and secondary education (7-9th) that is valid in both countries. Additional services and activities include life skill workshops, seminars on leadership development, referrals to social services, and peer-to-peer support.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 75.7%; rating input score 76
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -45.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 75.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $142K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.