- Revenue 2024
- $3,234,200
- Expenses 2024
- $4,051,920
Program services were 74.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- J20
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- PO BOX 8295
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
THE "CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION, ENTRENAMIENTO Y RECLUTAMIENTO DEL TRABAJADOR ORGANIZADO" (THE "CENTER FOR RESEARCH, TRAINING AND RECRUITMENT OF ORGANIZED WORKERS, OR "CIERTO") ORGANIZES FARMWORKERS AROUND THE WORLD TO COLLABORATE WITH THEIR EMPLOYERS AND TOGETHER ENGAGE THE GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN TO IDENTIFY AND IMPLEMENT OPPORTUNITIES TO CREATE VALUE - TO THE BENEFIT OF FARMWORKERS, THEIR EMPLOYERS, THE COMPANIES WHO PURCHASE THE FARM'S PRODUCTS, AND THE CONSUMERS WHO ENJOY THOSE PRODUCTS. THIS IN TURN WILL BENEFIT WORKERS, EMPLOYERS, RETAILERS AND CONSUMERS IN THE UNITED STATES AND ABROAD.
Activities or mission (Part I)
THE "CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION, ENTRENAMIENTO Y RECLUTAMIENTO DEL TRABAJADOR ORGANIZADO" (THE "CENTER FOR RESEARCH, TRAINING AND RECRUITMENT OF ORGANIZED WORKERS, OR "CIERTO") ORGANIZES FARMWORKERS AROUND THE WORLD TO COLLABORATE WITH THEIR EMPLOYERS AND TOGETHER ENGAGE THE GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN TO IDENTIFY AND IMPLEMENT OPPORTUNITIES TO CREATE VALUE - TO THE BENEFIT OF FARMWORKERS, THEIR EMPLOYERS, THE COMPANIES WHO PURCHASE THE FARMS' PRODUCTS, AND THE CONSUMERS WHO ENJOY THOSE PRODUCTS. THIS IN TURN WILL BENEFIT WORKERS, EMPLOYERS, RETAILERS AND CONSUMERS IN THE UNITED STATES AND ABROAD.
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CIERTO'S MOST SIGNIFICANT PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR 2023 WERE TO PROVIDE RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING TO PLACE 2,314 WORKERS FROM VARIOUS COMMUNITIES IN MEXICO AND GUATEMALA ON FARMS IN WASHINGTON, CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA AND NEW JERSEY. WE CONTINUE TO USE OUR THIRD PARTY VERIFICATION SYSTEM TO MONITOR OUR RECRUITMENT PROCESS AND THROUGH THIS MECHANISM HAVE ENSURED THE SAFE, TRANSPARENT AND FRAUDULENT FREE RECRUITMENT PROCESS FOR THESE WORKERS. WE ASSIST ALL WORKERS IN THE VISA PROCESS AND IN EVERY STEP FROM COMMUNITIES OF ORIGIN, TO CROSSING THE BORDER, TO ARRIVING ON FARMS.
Expenses $3,002,877 · Revenue $2,975,625
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.
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JOE G MARTINEZ
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $144,981
- From this org
- $133,523
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $11,458
- Hours/week
- 40
-
ARTURO S RODRIGUEZ
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TERESA ROMERO
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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MATT ROGERS
MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOHN FARRINGTON
MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ALFREDO ZEPEDA
MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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CAROLYN FAIRMAN
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
- Total calculated
- $136,169
- From this org
- $125,251
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $10,918
- Hours/week
- 40
-
NORMA A ENCINAS
EMPLOYEE
- Total calculated
- $126,256
- From this org
- $115,467
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $10,789
- 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
- $3,234,200
- Expenses
- $4,051,920
- Contributions
- $203,889
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $4,268,536
- Expenses
- $3,950,233
- Contributions
- $1,614,984
- Grants paid
- $200,421
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2022
- Revenue
- $3,291,730
- Expenses
- $2,620,383
- Contributions
- $1,654,153
- Grants paid
- $39,290
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,448,392
- Expenses
- $1,696,982
- Assets (EOY)
- $646,604
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,237,519
- Expenses
- $1,538,489
- Assets (EOY)
- $843,591
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,576,484
- Expenses
- $1,804,687
- Assets (EOY)
- $152,559
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $675,542
- Expenses
- $973,451
- Assets (EOY)
- $469,044
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,101,315
- Expenses
- $442,714
- Assets (EOY)
- $663,057
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $427,035
- Expenses
- $449,432
- Assets (EOY)
- $158,983
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
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$44,105
2022 MIGRATIONS
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$5,856
2025 LABOR INNOVATION
Related organizations
From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
Declared on its 2024 return
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CIERTO MEXICO AC
501(C)(3) · RECRUITMENT & TRAINING OF QUALIFIED FARM WORKERS · MX
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UNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICA
501(C)(3) · PAYING BILLS ON BEHALF OF CIERTO AND PROVIDING OTHER SERVICES · CA
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CIERTO GUATEMALA
501(C)(3) · RECRUITMENT & TRAINING OF QUALIFIED FARM WORKERS · GT
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.