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Filing year 2024

CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC

Amherst, New York·EIN 22-2306795·NTEE A70 · Arts, Culture & Humanities·3
Total revenue
$7M
Total assets
$6.7M
Total expenses
$6.5M
Reported officers
15
Mission

TO SPONSOR PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES THAT ADVANCE HUMANISM AND SKEPTICISM. TO ADVOCATE AND DEFEND A NONRELIGIOUS LIFE STANCE ROOTED IN SCIENCE, NATURALISTIC PHILOSOPHY, HUMANIST ETHICS, AND TO SERVE AND SUPPORT ADHERENTS OF THAT LIFE STANCE. TO PUBLISH SCHOLARLY MAGAZINES AND NEWSLETTERS AND TO HOLD EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCES TO INCREASE PUBLIC APPRECIATION FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION. TO EDUCATE CONSUMERS REGARDING AND PROTECT CONSUMERS FROM PSEUDOSCIENCE. HELD A NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN LAS VEGAS IN OCTOBER 2024. HELD VIRTUAL AND IN PERSON MEETINGS THROUGHOUT 2024.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 5 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

$225k
$243k
Base
$196k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$18k
Secretary
secretary (operational)
$140k
$151k
$129k
$139k
Legal Director
highest compensated employee
$127k
$137k
Director of Govt Affairs
highest compensated employee
$105k
$114k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with BLS CPI-U for the Northeast region, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 10 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Arts, Culture & Humanities

Up 10%
from 2023

From $204k in 2023 to $225k in 2024.

$204k
2023
$225k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 7% in real terms$228k to $243k

Estimated with BLS CPI-U for the Northeast region, 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

CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$5.4M
$6.1M
2023
$7M
$6.5M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Arts, Culture & Humanities executives earn in New York

Comparable arts, culture & humanities organizations in New York pay their highest-earning executive a median of $71,214.

25th percentile
$26k
Median
$71,214
75th percentile
$161k
90th percentile
$321k

These are arts, culture & humanities sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 608 organizations across 608 filings (2021 – 2023).

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