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Polk County Citizens Defending Freedom USA Inc

EIN 86-2355962 Mulberry, FL

Revenue 2023
$48,202
Expenses 2023
$132,690

Program services were 94.7% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses 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 · 2023

Primary exempt purpose

To empower and equip American citizens to defend their freedoms and liberties at the local level.

  • County Citizens Defending Freedom in Polk County Florida worked to accomplish our mission as an organization, to provide tools and resources to the citizens of Polk County, Florida in 2023. We did this within our three main areas of focus, Elections, Education, and Research and Analysis. Within elections, while working alongside of our Supervisor of Elections, we hosted poll watcher classes, and provided our citizens with precinct maps and locations, to encourage and inspire local election involvement. We had several meetings with our Supervisor of Elections, where she educated our organization on the process of elections. We held public meetings informing citizens on these processes, ultimately working to restore voter confidence. Within our education and research pillars, we hosted trainings for all citizens to get involved in schools, supporting teachers and students, through volunteer efforts within School Advisory Boards, PTA, and PTO. We built relationships with school board members and staff, by learning how we can assist them and better support them as a community. We researched agenda items that they did not have time to research and provided them with summaries of those agenda items. We held meetings, opened to the public, educating, and informing parents on how they can better assist their child's school and administration, by being more involved in their child's education.

    Expenses $125,640

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Kevin Respress

    President/CEO/Chair (part-year)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jinny Laderer

    Vice President/Treasurer (part-year)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Steve Watson

    Secretary (part-year)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Steve Maxwell

    President/CEO/Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Steve Blackwelder

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sarah Calamunci

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $48,202
    Expenses
    $132,690
    Contributions
    $48,202
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $106,991
    Expenses
    $424,046
    Contributions
    $106,991
    Grants paid
    $10,000

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
    $766,594
    Expenses
    $365,051
    Assets (EOY)
    $439,469

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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.