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FLORIDA TAXWATCH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC

EIN 59-1918055 TALLAHASSEE, FL

Revenue 2024
$2,947,168
Expenses 2024
$3,039,127

Program services were 94.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 10209

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.

  • MR DOMINIC M CALABRO

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $458,491
    From this org
    $375,408
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $83,083
    Hours/week
    60

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $322,908
    Bonus
    $52,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $52,555
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,528
    Filer's total
    $458,491
  • MR CHARLES FRAZIER JR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • MR BILL BARKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • MS ALBIE KAMINSKY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • MR JEFF BINKLEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • MR WILLIAM E CARSON JR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • MR DAVE MCINTOSH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • MS CHARLOTTE AUDIE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • DR MATTHEW MCARTER II

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • GOVERNOR BOB MARTINEZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • MS STACY GROMATSKI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • MR T MARTIN FIORENTINO JR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • MR JOHN FUMERO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • MR SCOTT SHALLEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • MS MARGY GRANT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • MRS BELINDA KEISER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • LT GOV JEFF KOTTKAMP

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $264,469
    From this org
    $250,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,469
    Hours/week
    10

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $250,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,469
    Filer's total
    $264,469
  • MS KAREN LAKE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • MR DON KISELEWSKI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • MR JIM FOGLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • MR THOMAS HOBAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • MR FRED KARLINSKY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • MR DAVID FAULKENBERRY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • REP KURT KELLY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • DR BILL KENT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

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 — 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
    $2,947,168
    Expenses
    $3,039,127
    Contributions
    $2,732,338
    Grants paid
    $53,540
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,791,458
    Expenses
    $2,978,176
    Contributions
    $2,447,378
    Grants paid
    $34,893
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,206,894
    Expenses
    $2,878,582
    Contributions
    $2,910,420
    Grants paid
    $260,824

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

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

  • 2025 TO SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS RELATED TO WATER INFRASTRUCTURE AND POLLUTION MITIGATION

  • 2024 TO SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS RELATED TO WATER INFRASTRUCTURE AND POLLUTION MITIGATION

  • 2023 TO SUPPORT THE ORG'S EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS RELATED TO CLIMATE-CHANGE MITIGATION

  • 2022 TO SUPPORT THE ORG'S EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS RELATED TO CLIMATE-CHANGE MITIGATION

  • 2023 CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTION POLICY VISION THAT RESONATES IN FLORIDA

  • 2022 GRANTEE WILL ASSIST IN DELINEATING A CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTION POLICY VISION THAT RESONATES WITH FLORIDA CONSERVATIVES CONSISTENT WITH A LIMITED GOVERNMENT, PRO-MARKET PHILOSOPHY.

  • 2024 EVENT SPONSORSHIP

  • 2023 EVENT SPONSORSHIP

  • 2024 CONTRIBUTION

  • 2022 EVENT SPONSORSHIP

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

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

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.