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CENTRAL AMERICAN REFUGEE CENTER CARECEN NY

EIN 11-2705005 HEMPSTEAD, NY

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Revenue 2024
$3,993,015
Expenses 2024
$4,138,429

Program services were 96.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P84Z
Classification
1200
Street
250 FULTON AVE STE 200

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

ALL PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO WORK, BUILD A COMMUNITY AND DETERMINE THEIR OWN FUTURE WITH A SENSE OF DIGNITY. THE DISPLACEMENT OF THOUSANDS OF CENTRAL AMERICANS INTO NORTH AMERICA AS A RESULT OF WAR AND CIVIL STRIFE IN THEIR HOMELANDS CREATED THE NEED FOR AN AGENCY TO SAFEGUARD THE BASIC RIGHTS OF THOSE SEEKING SAFE HAVEN IN OUR MIDST. THE CENTRAL AMERICAN REFUGEE CENTER - CARECEN (NY) PROMOTES SOCIAL JUSTICE AND LEGAL RIGHTS FOR CENTRAL AMERICANS AND ALL IMMIGRANTS, PARTICULARLY THOSE OF LOW AND MODERATE INCOME, THROUGH LEGAL REPRESENTATION, ADVOCACY, OUTREACH, EDUCATION, AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING. SINCE 1983, CARECEN HAS CONTINUED TO FIGHT AGAINST EXPLOITATION AND DISCRIMINATORY TREATMENT OF CENTRAL AMERICAN REFUGEES AND ALL IMMIGRANTS UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE PRO BONO / LOW BONO IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION TO NEW AMERICANS.

  • CARECEN OFFERED LEGAL ASSISTANCE AND REPRESENTATION OF IMMIGRANTS IN SUCH CASES AS ASYLUM, TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS, FAMILY PETITIONS, CITIZENSHIP APPLICATIONS, SPECIAL IMMIGRANT JUVENILE STATUS, AMONG OTHERS. IN 2024, 1,773 IMMIGRANTS RECEIVED IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES THROUGH CARECEN'S VARIOUS LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAMS. IN ADDITION TO LEGAL SERVICES, CARECEN PROVIDES A VARIETY OF COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICE PROGRAMS. IN 2024, 766 IMMIGRANTS RECEIVED ASSISTANCE ACCESSING A VARIETY OF SOCIAL SERVICES, 540 IMMIGRANTS WERE ENROLLED IN CARECEN CLASSES, AND 3,637 ATTENDED A WORKSHOP OFFERED BY CARECEN STAFF.

    Expenses $3,989,514 · Revenue $162,880

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.

  • Blanca A Villanueva

    PRESIDENT, THRU JULY 2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Amy Flores

    PRESIDENT, AS OF JULY 2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Gabriela Castillo Esq

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Luis Vazquez

    INTERIM TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Alexander Holtzman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Juan Martinez

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Syed Naqvi

    DIRECTOR, THRU JAN. 2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Ruth Silverman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Lauris Wren Esq

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Elise De Castillo Esq

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THRU SEPT. 2024

    Total calculated
    $119,070
    From this org
    $106,937
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,133
    Hours/week
    40

  • Melanie Creps

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AS OF SEPT. 2024

    Total calculated
    $94,623
    From this org
    $90,971
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,652
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jessica Greenberg Esq

    LEGAL DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $134,672
    From this org
    $119,471
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,201
    Hours/week
    40

  • Andrea Madrid Esq

    SUPERVISING ATTORNEY

    Total calculated
    $119,756
    From this org
    $117,726
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,030
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,993,015
    Expenses
    $4,138,429
    Contributions
    $3,825,785
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,997,227
    Expenses
    $2,660,184
    Contributions
    $2,797,709
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,439,908
    Expenses
    $1,883,055
    Contributions
    $1,289,868
    Grants paid
    $68,500

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
    $1,611,809
    Expenses
    $1,060,007
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,140,527

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $905,778
    Expenses
    $841,762
    Assets (EOY)
    $608,824

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,063,355
    Expenses
    $1,020,439
    Assets (EOY)
    $598,607

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,324,510
    Expenses
    $1,181,065
    Assets (EOY)
    $665,238

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,044,140
    Expenses
    $1,180,799
    Assets (EOY)
    $305,253

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,176,782
    Expenses
    $1,096,471
    Assets (EOY)
    $403,927

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $858,468
    Expenses
    $735,949
    Assets (EOY)
    $323,050

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $454,469
    Expenses
    $431,484
    Assets (EOY)
    $200,253

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $480,489
    Expenses
    $325,274
    Assets (EOY)
    $176,753

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $337,715
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,906

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

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 11 November 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.