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FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC

EIN 23-7099893 STUART, FL

Revenue 2023
$1,064,032
Expenses 2023
$922,423

Program services were 61.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C013
Classification
2000
Street
900 SE FEDERAL HWY 323

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 · 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.

  • Eve Samples

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $116,176
    From this org
    $109,762
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,414
    Hours/week
    40

  • Philip Kushlan

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Peter Upton

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Richard Trotta

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Constance Wasburn

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alan Farago

    Conservation Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Blair Wickstrom

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Robert Stein

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Milda Vaivada

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Camila Quaresma-Sharp

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nathaniel Linville

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dave Preston

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ray Judah

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sylmarie Trujillo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Robert Mitchell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jason Evans

    Director

    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 — 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
    $1,064,032
    Expenses
    $922,423
    Contributions
    $1,038,725
    Grants paid
    $13,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $999,637
    Expenses
    $790,037
    Contributions
    $978,725
    Grants paid
    $40,000

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.

Grants made

  • Votewater Inc

    $36,000

    2022 to fund 36 additional 501c3 compliant newsletters per year, allowing VoteWater to publish newsletters weekly, and boost its social media presence with additional posts and interaction.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 10 September 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.