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PETRA CARES

EIN 88-3058909 CYPRESS, TX

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Revenue 2025
$1,139,139
Expenses 2025
$712,959

Program services were 79.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B30
Classification
2000
Street
11629 TELGE RD

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 · 2025

Mission

Unlocking purpose for the vulnerable by removing barriers to educate and empower young people who are aging out of the foster care system, homeless, and at-risk.

  • Petra Cares empowers vulnerable young adults, ages 17-24, by providing workforce training, life skills, mentoring, & career placement that lead to stable employment & long-term self-sufficiency. Through hands-on automotive technician training & wraparound support, we help young people overcome barriers & build meaningful careers. We impacted 150 trainees, with a 78% graduation rate & a 72% job placement rate. We also partnered with ASE to offer industry standard certification. Students received ASE certification.

    Expenses $564,664

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.

  • Arnold Gacita

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sam Diaz

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Ken Ballard

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • JoVonna Hill

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Eric Merchant

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brady Schmidt

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Dave Bates

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Willie Daughters

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brian Meza

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $100,000
    From this org
    $100,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,139,139
    Expenses
    $712,959
    Contributions
    $570,781
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $710,529
    Expenses
    $478,670
    Contributions
    $657,975
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $498,106
    Expenses
    $270,013
    Contributions
    $498,106
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $62,278
    Expenses
    $1,004
    Contributions
    $62,278
    Grants paid
    not reported

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.

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