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Citizens Defending Freedom USA Inc

EIN 86-3962026 Mulberry, FL

Revenue 2025
$600,400
Expenses 2025
$1,769,353

Program services were 82.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Street
590 NW 3rd Street

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 · 2025

Mission

CITIZENS DEFENDING FREEDOM USA EMPOWERS AND EQUIPS AMERICAN CITIZENS TO DEFEND THEIR FREEDOMS AND LIBERTIES AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. BY STREAMLINING AND SIMPLIFYING ACTIVISM, WE SUPPORT AND CHAMPION AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO WANT TO STAND UP FOR THEIR INDEPENDENCE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO EMPOWER AND EQUIP AMERICAN CITIZENS TO DEFEND THEIR FREEDOMS AND LIBERTIES AT THE LOCAL LEVEL.

  • CITIZENS DEFENDING FREEDOM USA (CDF-USA) IS A NOT-FOR PROFIT, NONPARTISAN SOCIAL WELFARE ORGANIZATION THAT IS EXEMPT FROM TAXATION UNDER SECTION 501(C)(4) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE. CDF-USA EMPOWERS AND EQUIPS AMERICAN CITIZENS TO DEFEND THEIR FREEDOMS AND LIBERTIES AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. THE CDF-USA MISSION FOCUSES ON SHINING THE LIGHT ON ALL ACTIVITIES, DECISIONS, AND ACTIONS OF ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS, CITY COUNCILS, SCHOOL BOARDS, COUNTY COMMISSIONS, ADMINISTRATORS, AND SUPERINTENDENTS IN THE THREE STATES IN WHICH WE ARE CURRENTLY ESTABLISHED: FLORIDA, TEXAS, AND GEORGIA. OUR MISSION ALSO IS TO EDUCATE CITIZENS ON THE VALUES OF THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE FOUNDING OF OUR COUNTRY. ESTABLISHED IN 2021, CDF-USA IS A RESOURCE FOR CITIZENS TO COME TO WHEN THEIR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS HAVE BEEN THREATENED, DISREGARDED, OR IGNORED. OUR MORAL STANDARD IS BASED ON THE LAWS OF NATURE AND OF GOD FOUND IN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

    Expenses $1,458,240

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • STEVE MAXWELL

    PRESIDENT / EXEC. DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $213,998
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $213,998
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    33 + 3 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $213,998 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $213,998 related

  • JOHN DURHAM

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 2 related

  • DAVID BENDETT

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • KEVIN RESPRESS

    DIRECTOR AND SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 1 related

  • KEITH ROSE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6 + 2 related

  • KEITH SMITH

    DIRECTOR (PART YEAR)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 1 related

  • STEVE BLACKWELDER

    CEO (PART YEAR)

    Total calculated
    $151,605
    From this org
    $34,567
    From related orgs
    $117,038
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35 + 5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $34,567 + $117,038 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $34,567 + $117,038 related

  • COLBY WILTSE

    INTERIM CEO

    Total calculated
    $138,622
    From this org
    $33,654
    From related orgs
    $80,204
    Other
    $24,764
    Hours/week
    35 + 5 related

  • SETH JAHN

    DIRECTOR OF SECURITY

    Total calculated
    $156,264
    From this org
    $41,596
    From related orgs
    $114,129
    Other
    $539
    Hours/week
    35 + 5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $41,596 + $114,129 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $114 + $425 related
    Filer's total
    $41,710 + $114,554 related

  • LUIS CABRERA

    TX FAITH DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $141,872
    From this org
    $35,000
    From related orgs
    $92,341
    Other
    $14,531
    Hours/week
    35 + 5 related

  • TARA SCHULTE

    TX COUNTY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $113,529
    From this org
    $27,731
    From related orgs
    $75,275
    Other
    $10,523
    Hours/week
    35 + 5 related

  • NICOLE NOLTE

    MARKETING DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $112,819
    From this org
    $27,440
    From related orgs
    $76,181
    Other
    $9,198
    Hours/week
    35 + 5 related

  • SARAH CALAMUNCI

    FL STATE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $105,114
    From this org
    $27,731
    From related orgs
    $76,998
    Other
    $385
    Hours/week
    35 + 5 related

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $600,400
    Expenses
    $1,769,353
    Contributions
    $621,497
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,072,399
    Expenses
    $1,993,020
    Contributions
    $3,100,895
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,958,069
    Expenses
    $1,937,765
    Contributions
    $1,958,069
    Grants paid
    $97,497
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,378,407
    Expenses
    $3,206,048
    Contributions
    $3,378,407
    Grants paid
    $194,994

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
    $1,532,758
    Expenses
    $847,276
    Assets (EOY)
    $903,506

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 2025 return

Declared as related by

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.