Skip to main content
Filing year 2024

AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Chicago, Illinois·EIN 72-6019246·NTEE U035 · Science & Technology·3
Total revenue
$2.3M
Total assets
$34.7M
Total expenses
$1.7M
Reported officers
27
Mission

SEE SCHEDULE OTHE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY (AOS) IS AN INTERNATIONAL MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION THAT CONNECTS ORNITHOLOGISTS, SCIENCE, AND BIRD CONSERVATION BY SUPPORTING SCIENCE THAT ADVANCES THE UNDERSTANDING AND CONSERVATION OF BIRDS, PROMOTING BROAD ACCESS TO ORNITHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, SUPPORTING ORNITHOLOGISTS THROUGHOUT THEIR CAREER PATHS, AND FOSTERING A WELCOMING, DIVERSE, SUPPORTIVE, AND DYNAMIC ORNITHOLOGICAL COMMUNITY.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 2 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Executive Director and CEO
$171k
$183k
Base
$160k
Bonus
$6k
Other
Benefits
$5k
Director
board member
$1k
$1k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 25 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Science & Technology

Down 1%
from 2023

From $173k in 2023 to $171k in 2024.

$173k
2023
$171k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 4% in real terms$191k to $183k

Estimated with Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$1.3M
$1.6M
2023
$2.3M
$1.7M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Science & Technology executives earn

Comparable science & technology organizations nationwide pay their highest-earning executive a median of $111,215.

25th percentile
$35k
Median
$111,215
75th percentile
$231k
90th percentile
$443k

These are science & technology sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 255 organizations across 255 filings (2022 – 2023).

See full Science & Technology compensation data
Free, forever
Build lists. Save your benchmarks.
A free Lucido account lets you build lists of nonprofits and save your search filters. No credit card.
Create free account
Already a member? Sign in
Build a benchmark

Compare any role, sector, or revenue band

Build your own benchmark from millions of reported positions.