California · Nonprofit
California Taxpayers Association
California Taxpayers Association (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being Advanced Technology Alliance ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $807k
What California Taxpayers Association does
Mission
CalTaxs mission is to serve the general public and our members including Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and individuals by promoting sound tax policy and government efficiency at the state and local levels of government through advocacy, research and education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
CalTax monitors all tax agency regulatory proceedings, and works closely with tax administrators to ensure that tax regulations are clear, reflective of state statute, and simple to administer from both the state and taxpayer perspective. CalTax staff are members of the advisory boards for the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, Franchise Tax Board, State Board of Equalization, and Office of Tax Appeals; and regularly meet with executive staff at each of the agencies, testify during hearings, and attend interested parties meetings and regulatory working groups.
$4,000,996 spent$1,337,302 earned by the program89% of program spendingCalTax publishes 40 newsletters each year tracking tax policy developments in California, including legislation, regulatory changes, court cases, and local tax news. The newsletter ranges from 15-40 pages and contains original content from covering live hearings and events. The newsletter also includes tax policy commentaries from the state's leading voices on tax policy.
$333,888 spent$7,672 earned by the program7% of program spendingCalTax has two in-house registered lobbyists. CalTax reviews and analyzes every bill introduced in the California Legislature to determine if legislation has a significant tax policy, fiscal policy, or economic impact on California. CalTax writes letters advocating our position, testifies in committee, and meets with lawmakers, legislative staff and the Governor's administration to discuss our positioning. In addition to supporting and opposing legislation, we also work with legislators who have questions about how legislation may affect the state's taxpayers. We also provide tax information and analysis to the media.
$151,083 spent$55,721 earned by the program3% of program spendingProvided various other nonadvocacy related services
$34,671 spent$119,900 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,520,638.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.4M to $3.1M (+120%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Robert Gutierrez
President & CEO
Board chair
Andrew Zalewski
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $21k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest California Association of Realtors Issues Mobilization Political Action Com). These are real filings, and they are not money California Taxpayers Association raised.
From the IRS filings of California Taxpayers Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of California Taxpayers Association's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like California Taxpayers Association
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cal Tax Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for California Taxpayers Association: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds California Taxpayers Association?
- California Taxpayers Association (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being Advanced Technology Alliance ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does California Taxpayers Association have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $8,000 in grants to California Taxpayers Association.
- Who is the largest funder of California Taxpayers Association?
- Advanced Technology Alliance is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like California Taxpayers Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing