Polk County Citizens Defending Freedom USA Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862355962
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Mulberry, FL, USA
- Phone
- 5135777380
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,202
- Expenses
- $132,690
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kevin Respress (President/CEO/Chair (part-year))
- Jinny Laderer (Vice President/Treasurer (part-year))
- Steve Maxwell (President/CEO/Chair)
People named in this filing
- Kevin Respress (President/CEO/Chair (part-year))
- Jinny Laderer (Vice President/Treasurer (part-year))
- Steve Watson (Secretary (part-year))
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To empower and equip American citizens to defend their freedoms and liberties at the local level.
What it reported doing in 2023
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.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 94.7%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -175.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -100% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -75.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $126K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.