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Filing year 2024

DEFINE AMERICAN INC

Los Angeles, California·EIN 46-4610491·NTEE P84 · Human Services·3
Total revenue
$2.1M
Total assets
$3M
Total expenses
$4.1M
Reported officers
8
Mission

DEFINE AMERICAN IS A MEDIA AND CULTURE CHANGE ORGANIZATION THAT HUMANIZES THE CONVERSATION ABOUT IMMIGRANTS AND CITIZENSHIP IN A CHANGING AMERICA. WE ADVOCATE FOR MORE POSITIVE AND ACCURATE PORTRAYAL OF IMMIGRANTS IN MEDIA IN ORDER TO CREATE A MORE INCLUSIVE CULTURE TO IMPROVE PUBLIC PERCEPTION TOWARD IMMIGRANTS.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 3 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Vice President of Programs
vice president
$162k
$173k
Base
$144k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$15k
Director of Research & Evaluat
highest compensated employee
$148k
$158k
Associate Director of Digital
highest compensated employee
$115k
$123k

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 5 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Human Services

Down 2%
from 2023

From $165k in 2023 to $162k in 2024.

$165k
2023
$162k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 5% in real terms$183k to $173k

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

DEFINE AMERICAN INC reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$4.2M
$4.9M
2023
$2.1M
$4.1M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Human Services executives earn in California

Comparable human services organizations in California pay their highest-earning executive a median of $110,963.

25th percentile
$54k
Median
$110,963
75th percentile
$181k
90th percentile
$270k

These are human services sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 909 organizations across 909 filings (2021 – 2023).

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