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Filing year 2024

DISCOVERY INSTITUTE

Seattle, Washington·EIN 91-1521697·NTEE Z99Z · Unknown·3
Total revenue
$11.8M
Total assets
$10.1M
Total expenses
$13.2M
Reported officers
28
Mission

TO ADVANCE A CULTURE OF PURPOSE, CREATIVITY, AND INNOVATION IN A DIVERSE SET OF FIELDS. THIS MISSION IS ACHIEVED THROUGH EDUCATION, RESEARCH, AND ANALYSIS OF LOCAL, REGIONAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL ISSUES.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 12 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

$253k
$270k
Base
$253k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$825
Employee
key employee
$242k
$258k
Base
$218k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$24k
Vice Pres/pr
officer (unspecified)
$230k
$245k
Base
$215k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$15k
Employee
highest compensated employee
$167k
$179k
Base
$155k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$12k
Employee
highest compensated employee
$166k
$177k
Base
$164k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$2k
Employee
highest compensated employee
$160k
$170k
Base
$131k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$28k
Employee
highest compensated employee
$160k
$170k
Base
$148k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$12k
Employee
highest compensated employee
$150k
$160k
Base
$137k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$13k
Dir Fin & Op
officer (unspecified)
$143k
$153k
Secretary
secretary (operational)
$136k
$145k
Board Member
board member
$127k
$135k
Base
$127k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
Chairman
board chair
$10k
$11k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 16 unpaid individuals.

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Up 4%
from 2023

From $244k in 2023 to $253k in 2024.

$244k
2023
$253k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Roughly flat in real terms$270k to $270k

Estimated with Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA 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

DISCOVERY INSTITUTE reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$10.2M
$9.8M
2023
$11.8M
$13.2M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

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

Comparable organizationpage.redesign.benchmarkbuilder.ntee.z organizations nationwide pay their highest-earning executive a median of $68,938.

25th percentile
$25k
Median
$68,938
75th percentile
$137k
90th percentile
$262k

These are organizationpage.redesign.benchmarkbuilder.ntee.z sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 499 organizations across 499 filings (2021 – 2023).

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