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CALIFORNIANS FOR EQUAL RIGHTS

EIN 85-2315151 SAN DIEGO, CA

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Revenue 2025
$280,515
Expenses 2025
$299,194

Program services were 84.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R01
Classification
1000
Street
13126 SIENNA CT

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO SAFEGUARD AND BUILD AWARENESS ON THE CAUSES OF EQUAL RIGHTS AND MERIT THROUGH POLICY MONITORING, VOTER EDUCATION, LEGAL ADVOCACY, RIGOROUS RESEARCH, ALLIANCE BUILDING, AND MEDIA OUTREACH.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO ADVANCE AND EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ON THE CAUSE OF EQUAL RIGHTS.

  • THROUGH LOCAL ORGANIZING AND VOTER EDUCATION, CFER WORKS DILIGENTLY TO PROMOTE EQUAL RIGHTS, MERIT, AND EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE. OUR LEGAL ADVOCACY OPERATIONS HAVE GENERATED NOTABLE COURT VICTORIES IN HALTING RACE-BASED GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS. WE ARE ALSO A THINK TANK AND A WATCHDOG, COLLABORATING WITH NATIONAL, STATE, AND LOCAL GROUPS ON ISSUES PERTAINING TO CFER'S CAUSE AND MISSION.

    Expenses $254,014

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Frank Xu

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Dr Gail Heriot

    EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Allan Shafter Left In 2024

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Saga Conroy

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Xiaodong Zhang

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Grace Lee

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tony Xu

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Yan Li

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Linda Liu

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Hongxking Li

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shaohua Yang

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shin Wei

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dr Linghui Wu

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Paul Hannosh

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Paul Naleid

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dr Wenyuan Wu

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $166,085
    From this org
    $151,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,485
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $151,600
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,398
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,087
    Filer's total
    $166,085

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $280,515
    Expenses
    $299,194
    Contributions
    $277,662
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $332,550
    Expenses
    $326,610
    Contributions
    $329,208
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $327,407
    Expenses
    $303,050
    Contributions
    $325,638
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $292,962
    Expenses
    $288,482
    Contributions
    $292,962
    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
    $241,201
    Expenses
    $245,683
    Assets (EOY)
    $138,750
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $167,637
    Expenses
    $24,405
    Assets (EOY)
    $143,232

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.