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CENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC - CERI

EIN 76-0822958 OAKLAND, CA

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Revenue 2023
$5,861,336
Expenses 2023
$4,017,645

Program services were 81.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P42
Classification
1200
Street
554 GRAND AVE

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 · 2023

Mission

CERI'S MISSION IS TO IMPROVE THE SOCIAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC HEALTH OF REFUGEES EFFECT BY WAR, GENOCIDE, AND OTHER FORMS OF TRAUMA.

  • THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES FOR CAMBODIAN REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS PROVIDING CONTINUOUS SUPPORT GROUPS, INDIVIDUAL THERAPY, CASE MANAGEMENT, AND HAS YOUTH, FORMERLY INCARCERATED PARTICIPANTS, AND YOUNG ADULTS. CERI PROVIDES MEALS AND GROCERIES TO FAMILIES. CERI HELPS FAMILIES WITH FOOD, RENT SUPPORT, UTILITIES, AND OTHER NECESSITIES. CERI'S SERVICES INCLUDE A PUBLIC BENEFITS PROGRAM (ENROLLING PARTICIPANTS IN MEDI-CAL AND CALFRESH), A TOWN HALL FORUM FOR OUR ELDERS, A RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, TWO COVID TESTING DAYS AND THREE COVID VACCINATION DAYS AND CERI'S CALHOPE PROGRAM, COVID COUNSELING, AND REFERRAL PROGRAM FOR THOSE AFFECTED BY COVID, SERVING TEN DIFFERENT REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT POPULATIONS IN OVER ELEVEN LANGUAGES.

    Expenses $3,280,350 · Revenue $1,127,030

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • David Q Dobras Bs

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Siti Keo PhD

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sokunthea Chhun MSW

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mory Chhom

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chantha Tina Sar Ba

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Meagan Lee Bs

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mariam Arif

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mona Afary

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $131,312
    From this org
    $131,312
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,861,336
    Expenses
    $4,017,645
    Contributions
    $4,734,299
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,784,114
    Expenses
    $2,948,036
    Contributions
    $754,382
    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
    $2,933,164
    Expenses
    $2,243,327
    Assets (EOY)
    $980,176

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,497,570
    Expenses
    $1,356,197
    Assets (EOY)
    $304,522

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,498,535
    Expenses
    $1,373,265
    Assets (EOY)
    $307,054

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,119,731
    Expenses
    $1,048,440
    Assets (EOY)
    $291,209

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $777,709
    Expenses
    $809,004
    Assets (EOY)
    $207,598

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $653,625
    Expenses
    $631,377
    Assets (EOY)
    $237,393

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $676,002
    Expenses
    $533,295
    Assets (EOY)
    $215,147

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $272,873
    Expenses
    $337,516
    Assets (EOY)
    $74,741

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $334,487
    Expenses
    $335,387
    Assets (EOY)
    $141,048

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $418,302
    Expenses
    $334,952
    Assets (EOY)
    $141,415

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 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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.