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Filing year 2023

CALSTART INC

Pasadena, California·EIN 95-4375022·NTEE Z99Z · Unknown·3
Total revenue
$396.8M
Total assets
$168M
Total expenses
$396.6M
Reported officers
23
Mission

FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS, CALSTART HAS PARTNERED WITH INDUSTRY, GOVERNMENT, AND COMMUNITIES TO ACCELERATE THE DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF ADVANCED TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGIES. CALSTART DESIGNS AND IMPLEMENTS VEHICLE INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMS THAT REDUCE EMISSIONS, GROW DOMESTIC SUPPLY CHAINS, AND IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY. CALSTART PROVIDES TECHNICAL, REGULATORY AND POLICY SUPPORT TO SCALE COMMERCIALLY VIABLE, ZERO-EMISSION TRANSPORTATION SOLUTIONS THAT BENEFIT FLEET OPERATORS, LOCAL ECONOMIES, AND THE PUBLIC.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 9 reported individuals · Filing year 2023

President and CEO
$343k
$378k
Base
$293k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$27k
Chief Operations Officer
officer (unspecified)
$282k
$311k
Base
$240k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$25k
Vice President
vice president
$267k
$295k
Base
$232k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$18k
Chief Financial Officer
$264k
$292k
Base
$221k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$26k
Director, North East Region
highest compensated employee
$247k
$273k
Base
$214k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$19k
Director, Midwest Region
highest compensated employee
$238k
$263k
Base
$188k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$35k
Director, Bus Programs
highest compensated employee
$215k
$238k
Base
$172k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$30k
Development Director
$193k
$214k
Base
$161k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$20k
Policy Director
highest compensated employee
$190k
$210k
Base
$161k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$18k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 14 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in organizationPage.redesign.benchmarkBuilder.ntee.Z

Down 24%
from 2022

From $453k in 2022 to $343k in 2023.

$453k
2022
$343k
2023
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 27% in real terms$518k to $378k

Estimated with Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA 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

CALSTART INC reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$169.3M
$172.9M
2022
$396.8M
$396.6M
2023
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What organizationPage.redesign.benchmarkBuilder.ntee.Z executives earn in California

Comparable organizationpage.redesign.benchmarkbuilder.ntee.z organizations in California pay their highest-earning executive a median of $97,383.

25th percentile
$61k
Median
$97,383
75th percentile
$172k
90th percentile
$310k

These are organizationpage.redesign.benchmarkbuilder.ntee.z sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 117 organizations across 117 filings (2022 – 2023).

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