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Filing year 2024

BOOKS FOR AFRICA INC

St Paul, Minnesota·EIN 41-1627391·NTEE Q300 · International, Foreign Affairs & National Security·3
Total revenue
$28.6M
Total assets
$14.8M
Total expenses
$31M
Reported officers
23
Mission

BOOKS FOR AFRICA, INC.'S MISSION IS TO COLLECT, SORT, SHIP AND DISTRIBUTE BOOKS TO CHILDREN IN AFRICA. ITS GOAL IS TO END THE BOOK FAMINE IN AFRICA.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 1 reported individual · Filing year 2024

Executive Director
$236k
$252k
Base
$163k
Bonus
$43k
Other
Benefits
$29k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Minneapolis-St.Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 22 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in International, Foreign Affairs & National Security

Up 21%
from 2023

From $194k in 2023 to $236k in 2024.

$194k
2023
$236k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 18% in real terms$212k to $252k

Estimated with Minneapolis-St.Paul-Bloomington, MN-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

BOOKS FOR AFRICA INC reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$23.9M
$18.6M
2023
$28.6M
$31M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What International, Foreign Affairs & National Security executives earn

Comparable international, foreign affairs & national security organizations nationwide pay their highest-earning executive a median of $67,756.

25th percentile
$30k
Median
$67,756
75th percentile
$133k
90th percentile
$257k

These are international, foreign affairs & national security sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 916 organizations across 916 filings (2021 – 2023).

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