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Filing year 2024

Government Accountability Project

Washington, District of Columbia·EIN 52-1343924·NTEE W20 · Public & Societal Benefit·3
Total revenue
$4.4M
Total assets
$1.9M
Total expenses
$3.5M
Reported officers
11
Mission

Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a 48-year-old non-profit public interest organization that promotes government and corporate accountability by advancing occupational free speech, defending whistleblowers, and empowering citizen activists. GAP is the worlds leading whistleblower protection organization.

Executive compensation, broken down

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

Executive Director &ceo
$182k
$194k
Base
$139k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$36k
General Counsel
highest compensated employee
$141k
$150k
Chief Financial Officer
$130k
$138k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 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 Public & Societal Benefit

Up 10%
from 2023

From $166k in 2023 to $182k in 2024.

$166k
2023
$182k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 7% in real terms$182k to $194k

Estimated with Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 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 Project reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$3.2M
$3.3M
2023
$4.4M
$3.5M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Public & Societal Benefit executives earn

Comparable public & societal benefit organizations nationwide pay their highest-earning executive a median of $76,607.

25th percentile
$29k
Median
$76,607
75th percentile
$157k
90th percentile
$280k

These are public & societal benefit sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 641 organizations across 641 filings (2021 – 2023).

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