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CREATING RESOURCES FOR EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC

EIN 31-1812979 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$10,598,755
Expenses 2024
$11,025,108

Program services were 85.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S80
Classification
1000
Street
310 RIVERSIDE DR APT 2701

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

STRATEGIES AND COLLECTIVE POWER FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION. CREA, ALSO WORKS TO BUILD THE LEADERSHIP CAPACITY OF ELECTED WOMEN REPRESENTATIVES. CREA, AS PART OF THE SEXUAL RIGHTS INITIATIVE, ALSO WORKS TO ADVANCE SEXUAL RIGHTS AS PARTICULAR SET OF RIGHTS AND AS A CROSS-CUTTING ISSUE WITHIN INTERNATIONAL LAW, SPECIFICALLY IN THE WORK OF THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL. CREA DEVELOPS PUBLICATIONS AND KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES, IN ENGLISH AND HINDI, IN THE FIELDS OF SEXUALITY, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, GENDER AND HUMAN RIGHTS. CREA ALSO ORGANIZES PUBLIC DISCUSSIONS, DEBATES, EVENTS, ONLINE AND OFFLINE CAMPAIGNS TO CHALLENGE PUBLIC ATTITUDES AND DISCOURSE ON ISSUES OF WOMENS' HUMAN RIGHTS AND SEXUAL RIGHTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CREA BUILDS FEMINIST LEADERSHIP, STRENGTHENS MOVEMENTS, CHALLENGES UNJUST POWER STRUCTURES, EXPANDS SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOMS, AND ADVANCES THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF STRUCTURALLY EXCLUDED PEOPLE.

  • CREA WORKS WITH AND SUPPORTS PARTNERS IN EAST AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, AND SOUTH ASIA TO PARTICIPATE IN FEMINIST ORGANIZATIONS, TO BUILD CROSS- MOVEMENT ALLIANCES, AND TO ADVOCATE LOCALLY, NATIONALLY AND GLOBALLY. IT CONTINUES TO STRENGTHEN FEMINIST LEADERSHIP AND MOVEMENTS, ADVANCE SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, PROMOTE RIGHTS-BASED APPROACHES TO GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE, AND SUPPORT PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS AND MOVEMENTS TO DEFEND AND EXPAND CIVIC SPACE AND FOSTER COLLECTIVE RESILIENCE. IT DOES THIS THROUGH TRAININGS, INSTITUTES, CONVENINGS, TECHNICAL SUPPORT, KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES, CAMPAIGNS AND PUBLIC EVENTS.

    Expenses $9,423,995 · Grants $4,008,225

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Geetanjali Misra

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $282,755
    From this org
    $216,747
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $66,008
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $216,747
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $66,008
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $282,755
  • Shilpa Phadke

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Bindi Aibara

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jyoti Makhijani

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Ajay Agrawal

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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
    $10,598,755
    Expenses
    $11,025,108
    Contributions
    $9,829,038
    Grants paid
    $4,008,225
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $14,414,831
    Expenses
    $7,672,139
    Contributions
    $14,271,955
    Grants paid
    $1,033,229
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,405,976
    Expenses
    $7,031,507
    Contributions
    $7,221,326
    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
    $8,895,948
    Expenses
    $5,178,282
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,539,110
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,797,308
    Expenses
    $5,632,546
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,252,903
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,797,308
    Expenses
    $5,632,546
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,252,903
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,763,781
    Expenses
    $4,971,288
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,622,698
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $854,217
    Expenses
    $3,919,074
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,441,360
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,888,068
    Expenses
    $3,473,121
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,093,055
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,689,948
    Expenses
    $2,448,214
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,627,110
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,402,783
    Expenses
    $1,867,858
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,430,791
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $375,684
    Expenses
    $1,539,340
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,604,973
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,916,026
    Expenses
    $1,020,605
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,729,046

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • Assoc for Progressive Comm

    $160,000

    2024 Workshops, trainings, meetings, etc

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

  • CREA - India

    Institutes, workshops, training, meeting

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.