THE CLAUDE PEPPER FOUNDATION INC

EIN 59-2711448 TALLAHASSEE, FL

Revenue 2024: $259,694
Expenses 2024: $236,909

Program services were 71.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
Classification: 1000
Street: 636 W CALL ST

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

SEE SCHEDULE O

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE CLAUDE PEPPER FOUNDATION SERVES AS A LASTING TESTAMENT TO SENATOR PEPPER'S VISION AND COMMITMENT.THE FOUNDATION PRESERVES AND PROMOTES THE IDEAS, VALUES, PUBLIC POLICY GOALS, AND LIFE OF CLAUDE PEPPER TO ENSURE THAT THEY ARE A CONTINUING PART OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POLITICAL AND SOCIAL DISCOURSE. FEDERAL AND STATE LAWMAKERS ARE PROVIDED INFORMATION ABOUT THESE IDEAS TO PROMOTE ACTIONS AND POLICIES THAT WILL RESULT IN A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL AMERICANS. THIS GOAL IS PRIMARILY ACHIEVED THROUGH THE FOUNDATIONS'S SUPPORT OF THE CLAUDE PEPPER CENTER AT FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY. THROUGH THE CENTER'S PROGRAMS AND OPERATIONS, WHICH INCLUDE THE PEPPER LIBRARY, THE PEPPER MUSEUM, AND A COLLABORATION WITH THE PEPPER INSTITUTE ON AGING AND PUBLIC POLICY AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS, THE FOUNDATION DISSEMINATES RESEARCH, CONDUCTS SYMPOSIA, CONFERENCES, PUBLIC OUTREACH AND OTHER ACTIVITIES. THE VAST COLLECTION OF RESOURCES HOUSED AT THE PEPPER CENTER, WHICH WILL INCLUDE THE PAPERS OF OTHERS

ANALYZE PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES; DEVELOP EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS; SUPPORT THE CLAUDE PEPPER CENTER, AND THE PEPPER INSTITUTE ON AGING AND PUBLIC POLICY; PROVIDE GRANTS TO PROGRAMS THAT BENEFIT NEEDY AND/OR ELDERLY CITIZENS.

Expenses $168,964 · Grants $114,750

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

Branson WillisBRANSON WILLIS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
Kendrick MeekKENDRICK MEEK

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
Loranne AusleyLORANNE AUSLEY

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
Matthew M Carter IIMATTHEW M CARTER II

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
Timothy S ChapinTIMOTHY S CHAPIN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
Alexander M CrenshawALEXANDER M CRENSHAW

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
John E ThrasherJOHN E THRASHER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
George CrawfordGEORGE CRAWFORD

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
Dawn C CarrDAWN C CARR

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
Caroline Willis GillisCAROLINE WILLIS GILLIS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
Kendrick Meek JrKENDRICK MEEK JR

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
John E SpulakJOHN E SPULAK

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
Heather W GreenawayHEATHER W GREENAWAY

EXEC. VP/DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
Stephen R MacnamaraSTEPHEN R MACNAMARA

TREASURER/SECRETARY

Total calculated

$42,000

From this org

$42,000

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

10
Thomas J SpulakTHOMAS J SPULAK

CHAIR/PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5

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

$259,694

Expenses

$236,909

Contributions

$0

Grants paid

$114,750
2023

Revenue

$246,832

Expenses

$218,820

Contributions

$0

Grants paid

$89,263
2022

Revenue

$244,944

Expenses

$222,394

Contributions

$10,000

Grants paid

$100,250

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$259,694	$236,909	$0	$114,750
2023	$246,832	$218,820	$0	$89,263
2022	$244,944	$222,394	$10,000	$100,250

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

$461,623

Expenses

$241,056

Assets (EOY)

$4,271,437
2020 · 990

Revenue

$261,431

Expenses

$265,363

Assets (EOY)

$3,721,996
2019 · 990

Revenue

$236,468

Expenses

$257,281

Assets (EOY)

$3,701,508
2018 · 990

Revenue

$243,272

Expenses

$217,842

Assets (EOY)

$3,199,681
2017 · 990

Revenue

$298,871

Expenses

$242,517

Assets (EOY)

$3,517,544
2016 · 990

Revenue

$146,064

Expenses

$264,716

Assets (EOY)

$3,262,908
2015 · 990

Revenue

$70,365

Expenses

$243,719

Assets (EOY)

$3,252,689
2014 · 990

Revenue

$104,805

Expenses

$256,946

Assets (EOY)

$3,402,562
2013 · 990

Revenue

$198,756

Expenses

$200,822

Assets (EOY)

$3,522,089
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$208,427

Assets (EOY)

$3,189,755

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$461,623	$241,056	$4,271,437
2020	990	$261,431	$265,363	$3,721,996
2019	990	$236,468	$257,281	$3,701,508
2018	990	$243,272	$217,842	$3,199,681
2017	990	$298,871	$242,517	$3,517,544
2016	990	$146,064	$264,716	$3,262,908
2015	990	$70,365	$243,719	$3,252,689
2014	990	$104,805	$256,946	$3,402,562
2013	990	$198,756	$200,822	$3,522,089
2012	990	not reported	$208,427	$3,189,755

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

ALLIANCE FOR AGING RESEARCH

$0

2022 EDUCATION
CLOSE UP FOUNDATION

$0

2022 EDUCATION
ALLIANCE FOR AGING RESEARCH

$0

2024 EDUCATION
CLOSE UP FOUNDATION

$0

2024 EDUCATION
ALLIANCE FOR AGING RESEARCH

$0

2023 EDUCATION
CLOSE UP FOUNDATION

$0

2023 EDUCATION

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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

THE CLAUDE PEPPER CENTER - FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

501(C)(3) · EDUCATION · FL

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.