Skip to main content
Filing year 2024

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY ALLIANCE

Chicago, Illinois·EIN 45-4204629·NTEE R99 · Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy·4
Total revenue
$3.4M
Total assets
$935k
Total expenses
$3.1M
Reported officers
14
Mission

THE ORGANIZATION ADVOCATES ON BEHALF OF TAXPAYERS AT THE ILLINOIS CAPITOL AND ACROSS THE STATE. IT DOES THIS BY DRAFTING LEGISLATION, OFFERING TESTIMONY, ENCOURAGING GRASSROOTS INVOLVEMENT AND ENCOURAGING PRO-FREE ENTERPRISE POSITIONS ON BILLS.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 6 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

President and CEO
$147k
$157k
Base
$109k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$8k
VP of Government Affairs
vice president
$94k
$100k
Base
$56k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$13k
VP of Operations
vice president
$78k
$84k
Base
$35k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$11k
Executive Vice President
executive vice president
$49k
$52k
Base
$42k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
VP External Relations
vice president
$45k
$48k
Base
$11k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$2k
Senior Vice President
senior vice president
$44k
$47k
Base
$38k
Bonus
Other
Benefits

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 8 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy

Up 6%
from 2023

From $139k in 2023 to $147k in 2024.

$139k
2023
$147k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 2% in real terms$154k to $157k

Estimated with Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI 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

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY ALLIANCE reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$3.3M
$3.6M
2023
$3.4M
$3.1M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy executives earn

Comparable civil rights, social action & advocacy organizations nationwide pay their highest-earning executive a median of $77,000.

25th percentile
$41k
Median
$77,000
75th percentile
$120k
90th percentile
$194k

These are civil rights, social action & advocacy sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 527 organizations across 527 filings (2021 – 2023).

See full Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy compensation data
Free, forever
Build lists. Save your benchmarks.
A free Lucido account lets you build lists of nonprofits and save your search filters. No credit card.
Create free account
Already a member? Sign in
Build a benchmark

Compare any role, sector, or revenue band

Build your own benchmark from millions of reported positions.