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PUBLIC EDUCATION DEFENSE FUND INC

EIN 20-3428783 TALLAHASSEE, FL

Revenue 2024
$50,000
Expenses 2024
$124,201

Program services were 96.5% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
R40
Classification
3000
Street
213 S ADAMS 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).

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.

  • AMBER SWORDS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $292,918
    Compensation
    $176,586
    Benefit plans
    $95,296
    Expense account
    $21,036
    Hours/week
    1
  • CAROLE GAURONSKAS

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $355,821
    Compensation
    $270,505
    Benefit plans
    $64,337
    Expense account
    $20,979
    Hours/week
    1
  • ERIC RILEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $253,096
    Compensation
    $157,743
    Benefit plans
    $66,150
    Expense account
    $29,203
    Hours/week
    1
  • RICH HEITMEYER

    DEPUTY TREAS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1
  • ABBY DUPREE

    DEPUTY TREAS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1

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 — 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
    $50,000
    Expenses
    $124,201
    Contributions
    $50,000
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2023
    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,076
    Contributions
    not reported
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $450,000
    Expenses
    $397,327
    Contributions
    $450,000
    Grants paid
    $0

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.

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

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 2022 return

  • FLORIDA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

    C5 · LABOR UNIO · FL

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.