Connecticut · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR REFLECTION EDUCATION AND ACTION INCORPORATED
CENTER FOR REFLECTION EDUCATION AND ACTION INCORPORATED (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,600 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $80k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $344k
What Center for Reflection Education and Action Incorporated does
Mission
CREA is a social-economic research and education center focusing on corporate social responsibility, human rights, labor rights, sustainable communities and direct trade, and economic analysis. CREA facilitates analysis of policies from the perspective of their effects on human lives, beginning from the lives of people and communities who are poor. Educational programs both formal and informal, as well as publications, offer opportunities to participate in this analysis.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Sustainable communities and direct trade: CREA continues to work with cooperatives in various countries, especially in Guatemala and with other organizations working in Haiti, Palestine, Uganda, El Salvador and others to assist the artisans and farmers in bringing their products to market. CREA continues to supply the educational materials needed for any children in the cooperatives with which we work so that the children may attend school. We continue to provide scholarships annually so that those studying to become teachers can complete their studies and return to serve their communities.
$95,827 spent$33,298 earned by the program91% of program spendingCorporate social responsibility: CREA continues to work on corporate social responsibility, focusing on issues related to supply chains around the world. These issues include, but are not limited to, preventing forced and child labor, sustainable living wages, removal of toxic and carcinogenic chemicals from production and/or inclusion in final products, and multi-stakeholder interaction on the local and investor levels. CREA collaborates with other non-governmental organizations in these efforts. CREA also continues to work on issues related to sustainable communities within the corporate responsibility work, focusing on the impact of jobs, use and misuse of natural resources, emission of waste products, etc. on the communities in which products are sourced/produced and in locations where the products are sold within the US. The impact of the business site is also a focus of the CSR work, linking it to the sustainable earth work described below.
$5,690 spent5% of program spendingSustainable earth; economic, social and environmental: CREA continues to give workshops to various groups in New England focusing on the issues related to climate change and how they affect communities in various parts of the world. Following the foundation set forth by Pope Francis in Laudato Si', the workshops teach attendees how to connect aspects of climate change with increases in food costs, job availability. etc. which moves the issue from somewhere "over there" to right here where we each live and work. In addition, attendees are taught how to use their power as investors, shoppers, communities of faith, etc. to bring about change in various institutions such as large corporations. In addition, CREA is developing a series of educational materials on specific issues with each booklet focusing on one issue and how it connects with what is happening around us.
$3,450 spent3% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $104,967.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $611k to $480k (−21%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
58% of CENTER FOR REFLECTION EDUCATION AND ACTION INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Ruth Rosenbaum TC
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR REFLECTION EDUCATION AND ACTION INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of CENTER FOR REFLECTION EDUCATION AND ACTION INCORPORATED's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CENTER FOR REFLECTION EDUCATION AND ACTION INCORPORATED's revenue fell 46% between 2020 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CENTER FOR REFLECTION EDUCATION AND ACTION INCORPORATED
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR REFLECTION EDUCATION AND ACTION INCORPORATED: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR REFLECTION EDUCATION AND ACTION INCORPORATED?
- CENTER FOR REFLECTION EDUCATION AND ACTION INCORPORATED (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,600 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR REFLECTION EDUCATION AND ACTION INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,600 in grants to CENTER FOR REFLECTION EDUCATION AND ACTION INCORPORATED.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR REFLECTION EDUCATION AND ACTION INCORPORATED?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR REFLECTION EDUCATION AND ACTION INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing