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EL CENTRO DE AMISTAD INC

EIN 95-3498639 CANOGA PARK, CA

Revenue 2024
$11,472,169
Expenses 2024
$9,723,360

Program services were 80.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
7038 OWENSMOUTH AVENUE

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

Provide mental health and other children services to low-income families in the San Fernando Valley.

Activities or mission (Part I)

El Centro de Amistad, Inc. utilizes a multi-disciplinary treatment approach to provide mental health and other children services to low-income families in the San Fernando Valley. See Schedule O for more details.

  • Mental Health Consultation & Education provides ongoing mental health services to adults (18-64) who are chronically mentally ill. Services may include individual, family and group therapy, case management, rehabilitation and medication support. The goal is to stabilize clients, make them more independent and acquire healthier coping skills to function better socially, emotionally and behaviorally within the home and in the community.

    Expenses $4,658,061 · Revenue $7,458,394

  • Family Resource Center (FSC) - The FSC will provide a continuum of services focused on addressing the urgent needs of families, empowering families to obtain greater financial security, fostering opportunities for improved academic achievement, and building community wealth.

    Expenses $1,180,393 · Revenue $1,415,842

  • Child Welfare Services - Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health provides evidence-based mental health services to infants and children between the ages 0-12 years of age. The goal is to improve and enhance mental health, and social and emotional development of infants and children who are at significant risk and particularly those who have experienced trauma. The program also focuses on providing mental health consultation/coaching to strengthen the capacity of parent (s) /caregiver (s), educators, schools and community agencies by gaining an understanding and addressing early social and emotional development, and impact of trauma on development. Early intervention and parent (s) caregiver (s) support will promote optimal development for infants and children and enhance the capacity of the families to meet the needs of their children.

    Expenses $871,981 · Revenue $512,816

  • Relative Home Assessment Services is a new family-friendly and child-centered caregiver approval process. The program unifies approval standards for all. caregivers, regardless of the child's case plan. The process includes a comprehensive psychosocial assessment, home orientation/home environment check, and training for all families, including relatives. The program prepares families to better meet the needs of vulnerable children in the foster care system and allows for a seamless transition to permanency.

    Expenses $698,776 · Revenue $692,667

  • Project LAUNCH - SAMHSA - Linking Actions for Unmet Needs in Childrens Health) aims topromote the social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral wellness of young children (birth to age 8) by implementing evidence-based practices and improving coordination across systems. It focuses on fostering resilience and preventing mental/behavioral disorders in high-risk children.

    Expenses $403,702 · Revenue $944,699

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.

  • Luis Cervantes

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $194,214
    From this org
    $169,344
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,870
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,844
    Bonus
    $8,500
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $6,832
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,038
    Filer's total
    $194,214

  • Tania Del Gatto

    Associate Dir.

    Total calculated
    $150,873
    From this org
    $142,441
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,432
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $134,691
    Bonus
    $7,750
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $5,881
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,551
    Filer's total
    $150,873

  • Irma Angie Sanchez

    Program Director

    Total calculated
    $123,264
    From this org
    $106,776
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,488
    Hours/week
    40

  • Sara Pineda

    Dir. of Operations

    Total calculated
    $123,169
    From this org
    $122,209
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $960
    Hours/week
    40

  • Juliana Oceguera

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Danitza Pantoja

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ramon Retirado

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Magali Gallegos

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Doug Barnett

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rich Golisch

    SergeantatArms

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nely Meza

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Enrique Sanchez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $11,472,169
    Expenses
    $9,723,360
    Contributions
    $261,438
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $11,686,332
    Expenses
    $8,372,525
    Contributions
    $1,502,443
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,290,953
    Expenses
    $7,431,774
    Contributions
    $264,868
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,522,324
    Expenses
    $7,468,022
    Contributions
    $264,863
    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
    $6,752,596
    Expenses
    $6,506,909
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,249,432

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,765,526
    Expenses
    $6,563,150
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,295,278

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,173,936
    Expenses
    $6,268,746
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,001,415

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,041,402
    Expenses
    $5,990,482
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,924,866

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,835,993
    Expenses
    $5,716,405
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,046,342

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,189,250
    Expenses
    $5,132,108
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,916,209

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,577,455
    Expenses
    $4,417,085
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,888,191

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,845,875
    Expenses
    $3,828,613
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,914,879

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,778,982
    Expenses
    $3,606,995
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,002,480

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,441,844
    Expenses
    $3,435,508
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,666,351

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

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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.