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Filing year 2024

PADI AWARE FOUNDATION

Rancho Santa Margarita, California·EIN 33-0540475·NTEE Z99Z · Unknown·3
Total revenue
$1.4M
Total assets
$830k
Total expenses
$1.4M
Reported officers
5
Mission

OUR MISSION TO 'DRIVE LOCAL ACTION FOR GLOBAL OCEAN CONSERVATION' IS CARRIED OUT THROUGH CITIZEN SCIENCE, PUBLIC POLICY, AND COMMUNITY GRANTS. FOR OVER 30 YEARS, PADI AND AWARE HAVE BUILT A TRULY UNIQUE VOICE FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE UNDERWATER WORLD. TOGETHER, WE HAVE SET AMBITIOUS OCEAN CONSERVATION TARGETS THROUGH A SHARED BLUEPRINT FOR OCEAN ACTION THAT PROVIDES THE FRAMEWORK TO TACKLE KEY THREATS TO THE OCEAN AND CREATE OCEAN CHANGE IN OUR DIVE COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD.

Executive compensation

Form 990 · Schedule J · 1 reported individual · Filing year 2024

Global Operations Director
$118k
$127k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 4 unpaid individuals.

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Up 1%
from 2023

From $117k in 2023 to $118k in 2024.

$117k
2023
$118k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 2% in real terms$129k to $127k

Estimated with Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA 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

PADI AWARE FOUNDATION reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$1.4M
$1.2M
2023
$1.4M
$1.4M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What organizationPage.redesign.benchmarkBuilder.ntee.Z executives earn in California

Comparable organizationpage.redesign.benchmarkbuilder.ntee.z organizations in California pay their highest-earning executive a median of $97,383.

25th percentile
$61k
Median
$97,383
75th percentile
$172k
90th percentile
$310k

These are organizationpage.redesign.benchmarkbuilder.ntee.z sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 117 organizations across 117 filings (2022 – 2023).

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