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Filing year 2023

CHABOT SPACE & SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION

Oakland, California·EIN 94-3146233·NTEE U20 · Science & Technology·3
Total revenue
$6.4M
Total assets
$8.8M
Total expenses
$9.5M
Reported officers
36
Mission

THE CHABOT SPACE & SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION IS TO OPERATE THE CHABOT SPACE & SCIENCE CENTER, TO CARRY OUT CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES, TO DEVELOP, CULTIVATE, AND ADVOCATE GREATER PUBLIC INTEREST IN SCIENCE AND TO INSPIRE AND EDUCATE STUDENTS OF ALL AGES ABOUT OUR PLANET EARTH AND THE UNIVERSE. SERVING THE HIGHLY DIVERSE COMMUNITY OF OAKLAND AND THE GREATER SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CHABOT AIMS TO MAKE SCIENCE AND SPACE ACCESSIBLE AND ENGAGING TO A MULTITUDE OF AUDIENCES THROUGH EXHIBITS, EDUCATION, AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 8 reported individuals · Filing year 2023

Executive Director
$250k
$272k
Base
$247k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$3k
Associate Director of V/e
key employee
$188k
$204k
Base
$188k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
Director of Inst. Adv. Thru 08/24
highest compensated employee
$140k
$153k
Director of Exhibits & Design
highest compensated employee
$125k
$137k
Director of Operations
$122k
$133k
$118k
$128k
Education Program Developer to 1/26/24
highest compensated employee
$101k
$110k
CFO 11/1/23 to 8/2/24
$26k
$28k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 28 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Science & Technology

Down 14%
from 2022

From $290k in 2022 to $250k in 2023.

$290k
2022
$250k
2023
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 17% in real terms$327k to $272k

Estimated with San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 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

CHABOT SPACE & SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$10.2M
$8.3M
2022
$6.4M
$9.5M
2023
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Science & Technology executives earn in California

Comparable science & technology organizations in California pay their highest-earning executive a median of $110,249.

25th percentile
$25k
Median
$110,249
75th percentile
$216k
90th percentile
$360k

These are science & technology sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 50 organizations across 50 filings (2022 – 2023).

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