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CALIFORNIA TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION

EIN 95-0598420 SACRAMENTO, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2024
$4,945,028
Expenses 2024
$5,137,873

Program services were 88.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Classification
1000
Street
1201 K ST STE 1600

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).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 1600). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

CalTaxs mission is to serve the general public and our members including Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and individuals by promoting sound tax policy and government efficiency at the state and local levels of government through advocacy, research and education.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Promote sound tax policy and government efficiency.

  • CalTax monitors all tax agency regulatory proceedings, and works closely with tax administrators to ensure that tax regulations are clear, reflective of state statute, and simple to administer from both the state and taxpayer perspective. CalTax staff are members of the advisory boards for the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, Franchise Tax Board, State Board of Equalization, and Office of Tax Appeals; and regularly meet with executive staff at each of the agencies, testify during hearings, and attend interested parties meetings and regulatory working groups.

    Expenses $4,000,996 · Revenue $1,337,302

  • CalTax publishes 40 newsletters each year tracking tax policy developments in California, including legislation, regulatory changes, court cases, and local tax news. The newsletter ranges from 15-40 pages and contains original content from covering live hearings and events. The newsletter also includes tax policy commentaries from the state's leading voices on tax policy.

    Expenses $333,888 · Revenue $7,672

  • CalTax has two in-house registered lobbyists. CalTax reviews and analyzes every bill introduced in the California Legislature to determine if legislation has a significant tax policy, fiscal policy, or economic impact on California. CalTax writes letters advocating our position, testifies in committee, and meets with lawmakers, legislative staff and the Governor's administration to discuss our positioning. In addition to supporting and opposing legislation, we also work with legislators who have questions about how legislation may affect the state's taxpayers. We also provide tax information and analysis to the media.

    Expenses $151,083 · Revenue $55,721

  • Provided various other nonadvocacy related services

    Expenses $34,671 · Revenue $119,900

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Robert Gutierrez

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $417,314
    From this org
    $372,577
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $44,737
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $342,877
    Bonus
    $29,700
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $25,992
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,745
    Filer's total
    $417,314
  • Peter Blocker

    VP of Policy

    Total calculated
    $285,767
    From this org
    $246,017
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $39,750
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $226,397
    Bonus
    $19,620
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $17,084
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,666
    Filer's total
    $285,767
  • David Kline

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $226,898
    From this org
    $194,242
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32,656
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $194,242
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $12,424
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,232
    Filer's total
    $226,898
  • Jim Asay

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Anitha Chakravarthi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Trini Jimenez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Carlos Angiuano

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Delia Besio

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • John Cmelak

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Meredith H Garwood

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Cali Daly

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Christopher Hayes

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jeffrey S Moreno

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • James Beatty

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Terry Ryan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • John Stowell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Steve Utech

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Patricia Wong

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • William Wright

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Andrew Zalewski

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Becky Zhu

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jon Almeras

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Josh Mishoe

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • John Barnes

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Nicholas Blackburn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

The first 25 listed. 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,945,028
    Expenses
    $5,137,873
    Contributions
    $3,354,781
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,907,564
    Expenses
    $2,995,602
    Contributions
    $1,250,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,995,989
    Expenses
    $2,069,639
    Contributions
    $270,037
    Grants paid
    $5,000

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
    $1,678,404
    Expenses
    $1,676,911
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,627,545
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,014,541
    Expenses
    $3,077,910
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,459,610
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,131,709
    Expenses
    $1,987,589
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,467,679
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,640,141
    Expenses
    $1,725,880
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,432,675
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,580,962
    Expenses
    $1,592,806
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,433,913
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,972,724
    Expenses
    $1,905,816
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,351,335
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,763,538
    Expenses
    $1,883,413
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,390,157
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,537,796
    Expenses
    $1,685,399
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,363,795

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

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 2024 return

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