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Filing year 2024

COMMON DREAMS INC

Portland, Maine·EIN 20-3368194·NTEE V99 · Social Science·3
Total revenue
$1.7M
Total assets
$481k
Total expenses
$1.5M
Reported officers
5
Mission

COMMON DREAMS PROVIDES PUBLIC EDUCATION ON A DIVERSE RANGE OF SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND CIVIC ISSUES AFFECTING INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR COMMUNITIES. COMMON DREAMS PROVIDES ACCESS TO INFORMATION ON PROGRESSIVE ISSUES, ENRICHING PUBLIC DISCOURSE, AND SHOWCASING POINTS OF VIEW NOT FREQUENTLY AIRED BY COMMERCIAL MEDIA. COMMON DREAMS PERFORMS ONLINE PUBLICATION OF NEWS AND OPINION.

Executive compensation, broken down

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

Executive Director/member
officer (unspecified)
$182k
$197k
Base
$175k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$7k
Chair/paid Proj Mgr
officer (unspecified)
$82k
$89k

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 3 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Social Science

Down 4%
from 2023

From $189k in 2023 to $182k in 2024.

$189k
2023
$182k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 7% in real terms$211k to $197k

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

COMMON DREAMS INC reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$1.2M
$1.4M
2023
$1.7M
$1.5M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Social Science executives earn

Comparable social science organizations nationwide pay their highest-earning executive a median of $96,366.

25th percentile
$35k
Median
$96,366
75th percentile
$193k
90th percentile
$381k

These are social science sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 106 organizations across 106 filings (2022 – 2023).

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