Hawaii · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES
COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES (Hawaii) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,067 to it, the largest being MCINERNY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Community Empowerment Resources does
Mission
To provide help to persons with disabilities. Specifically its significant activities are: gain access to psychiatric and medication services; referral to a primary care physician for medical services; find a job, vocational services, and state and federal benefit programs; find housing both private and public; get access to probationary, legal and other justice-related services; monitor psychiatric and medical medications & medication management; referral to programs for treatment of substance abuse; regular face-to-face contact for the purpose of assessing or reassessing needs; crisis assessment and intervention, with a case manager available 24/7/365. Services are delivered to the mentally ill in their homes, work, the park, the beach, or other community settings.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Cer serves mentally-ill persons in the state of hawaii, and many of these are homeless, are addicted to substances, and have little or no other social support. On a 24-hour basis, cer helps with psychiatric crisis services, gaining access to ongoing psychiatric and medication services, referral to a primary care physician for medical services, finding a job, linking with state and federal benefit programs, finding housing both private and public, getting access to legal and other services, and monitoring psychiatric and medical medications. Cer has successfully helped approximately 700 patients per month.
$3,015,766 spent$499,679 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,015,766.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2019 to 2020, from $81k to $1.3M (+1542%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 49% · 2018 58% · 2019 76% · 2020 82% · 2021 93% · 2022 99% · 2023 86% · 2024 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Aliman Sears
CEO
Board chair
Mohammed Jan Rumi
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $40.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES’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.
How concentrated its funding is
COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 86% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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 COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67 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
COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES has grown faster than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES
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 Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES: 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 COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES?
- COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES (Hawaii) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,067 to it, the largest being MCINERNY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $35,067 in grants to COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES?
- MCINERNY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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