Citizens Against Recidivism
Legal name: Citizens Against Recidivism Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 113332491
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Springfield Gardens, New York, United States
- Phone
- 347.626.7233
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,500
- Expenses
- $16,222
- Assets
- $6,589
- Liabilities
- $44,297
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mika'il DeVeaux PhD (President)
People named in this filing
- Donald Lawrence MHS (Chairman)
- Mika'il DeVeaux PhD (President)
- Baruti Bediako CPA (Treasurer)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Citizens Against Recidivism, Inc. works to achieve the restoration of all the rights and attributes of citizenship among people in prison or jail and those who have been released in collaboration with other community and faith based organizations at each of the overlapping phases of the community integration process. This work includes advocacy on all levels, preventive efforts targeting at-risk youth and efforts to strengthen individuals, families and personal relationships affected by experiences with the criminal justice system.
What it reported doing in 2024
Fiscal Conduit - The Organization served as the fiscal conduit for the Ujima Pan African Media Archives a community group working to restore 40 years of video and audio records of black and progressive historical political events. The group plans on training the formerly incarcerated on the restoration process.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 28
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.2%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.7%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 6.72; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 45.2% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.