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← Citizens Defending Freedom USA Inc

Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by Citizens Defending Freedom USA Inc.

Totals

Total revenue
$3,072,399
Total expenses
$1,993,020
Contributions and grants received
$3,100,895
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
-$28,496
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$2,118,082
Total liabilities, end of year
$157,227
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,960,855
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,721,454
Management and general expenses
$247,743
Fundraising expenses
$23,823
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,721,454

Program services were 86.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Listed in Part VII

  • David Bendett

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • John Durham

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 2 related

  • Kevin Respress

    Director and Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 1 related

  • Steve Maxwell

    President / Exec. Director

    Total calculated
    $251,830
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $251,830
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    33 + 3 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $251,830 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $251,830 related

  • Jim McClain

    Director (Part Year)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

  • Keith Rose

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6 + 2 related

  • Keith Smith

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 1 related

  • Steve Blackwelder

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $136,331
    From this org
    $114,102
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,229
    Hours/week
    35 + 5 related

  • Jonathan Hullihan

    General Counsel & Director

    Total calculated
    $230,833
    From this org
    $230,022
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $811
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $230,022
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $811
    Filer's total
    $230,833

  • Seth Jahn

    Director of Security

    Total calculated
    $151,470
    From this org
    $151,470
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $151,470
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $151,470

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
13 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.1
Source object
202543179349307709

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