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Filing year 2024

LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC

New York, New York·EIN 23-7395681·NTEE R20Z · Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy·3
Total revenue
$58.5M
Total assets
$85M
Total expenses
$29.1M
Reported officers
55
Mission

THE LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND, INC. IS A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO ACHIEVING FULL RECOGNITION OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF LESBIANS, GAY MEN, BISEXUALS, TRANSGENDER PEOPLE AND ANYONE LIVING WITH HIV THROUGH IMPACT LITIGATION, EDUCATION AND PUBLIC POLICY WORK.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 14 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Base salaryBonusOther compensationBenefits
Base salaryBonusOther compensationBenefitsExecutive compensation
Chief Legal Officer
key employee
$452k
$488k
Dir. for Litigation
highest compensated employee
$305k
$330k
CTO
key employee
$294k
$318k
Chief of People & Cult. (outgoing)
key employee
$265k
$286k
Chief of Plan & Prog Mgmt.
key employee
$258k
$279k
Dir. for Policy
highest compensated employee
$249k
$269k
Senior Counsel Dir. Dev.
highest compensated employee
$238k
$257k
Dir. of Leadership Gifts
highest compensated employee
$232k
$250k
Cco
key employee
$231k
$250k
Deputy Legal Director
highest compensated employee
$226k
$244k

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 41 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy

Climbed 64%
over 2 years

From $506k in 2022 to $832k in 2024.

$506k
2022
$551k
2023
$832k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 52% in real terms$590k to $899k

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

LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC reported revenue and expenses across 3 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$21.9M
$25.2M
2022
$35.4M
$25.7M
2023
$58.5M
$29.1M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy executives earn in New York

Comparable civil rights, social action & advocacy organizations in New York pay their highest-earning executive a median of $120,640.

25th percentile
$59k
Median
$120,640
75th percentile
$212k
90th percentile
$349k

These are civil rights, social action & advocacy sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 198 organizations across 198 filings (2022 – 2024).

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