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Filing year 2024

Higher Heights for America

Brooklyn, New York·EIN 45-3211706·NTEE R24 · Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy·4
Total revenue
$3.5M
Total assets
$321k
Total expenses
$3.6M
Reported officers
13
Mission

Our mission is to increase Black womens political power to improve the lives of Black people and strengthen American democracy.

Executive compensation, broken down

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

VP of Programs
vice president
$129k
$139k
Base
$129k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
President and CEO
$99k
$107k
Base
$98k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
VP of Instiutional Development
vice president
$88k
$95k
Base
$87k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
VP of Communications and External Affairs
vice president
$80k
$86k
Base
$79k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
Events Mgr/director of Events
key employee
$61k
$66k
Chief of Staff
key employee
$59k
$64k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 7 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy

Up 16%
from 2023

From $111k in 2023 to $129k in 2024.

$111k
2023
$129k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 11% in real terms$125k to $139k

Estimated with New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA 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

Higher Heights for America reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$995k
$922k
2023
$3.5M
$3.6M
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).

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