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Filing year 2024

KNOWLEDGE FUTURES INC

Cambridge, Massachusetts·EIN 84-3111259·NTEE P20 · Human Services·3
Total revenue
$963k
Total assets
$2.6M
Total expenses
$3.1M
Reported officers
12
Mission

THE KNOWLEDGE FUTURES GROUP BUILDS INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A MORE EFFECTIVE, EQUITABLE, AND SUSTAINABLE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY. WE CURRENTLY MAINTAIN THREE CORE PRODUCTS: PUBPUB, AN OPEN-SOURCE PLATFORM FOR PUBLISHING ACADEMIC WORK; THE UNDERLAY, A PROTOCOL AND SET OF TOOLS FOR BUILDING DISTRIBUTED KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS; COMMONPLACE, A PUBLICATION THAT DISCUSSES THE DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE, POLICIES, AND CULTURES NEEDED TO DISTRIBUTE, CONSTELLATE, AND AMPLIFY KNOWLEDGE FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 9 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Executive Director
$232k
$247k
Base
$203k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$20k
Head of Communities
key employee
$227k
$242k
Base
$210k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$9k
Head of Operations and Pro
key employee
$221k
$236k
Base
$221k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$189
Head of R&d
officer (unspecified)
$210k
$224k
Base
$201k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$189
Engineering Manager
highest compensated employee
$184k
$196k
Base
$159k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$18k
Senior Software Engineer
highest compensated employee
$160k
$170k
Base
$146k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$9k
Deputy Director, Operations
$134k
$143k
Software Engineer
highest compensated employee
$131k
$140k
Customer Success Manager
highest compensated employee
$116k
$124k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 3 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Human Services

Up 17%
from 2023

From $198k in 2023 to $232k in 2024.

$198k
2023
$232k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 13% in real terms$219k to $247k

Estimated with Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH 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

KNOWLEDGE FUTURES INC reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$529k
$2.9M
2023
$963k
$3.1M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Human Services executives earn in Massachusetts

Comparable human services organizations in Massachusetts pay their highest-earning executive a median of $111,982.

25th percentile
$45k
Median
$111,982
75th percentile
$193k
90th percentile
$303k

These are human services sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 244 organizations across 244 filings (2021 – 2023).

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