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Filing year 2024

DEFENDING EDUCATION

Arlington, Virginia·EIN 86-1596460·NTEE R20 · Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy·3
Total revenue
$5.3M
Total assets
$980k
Total expenses
$5M
Reported officers
11
Mission

National grassroots organization working to reclaim our schools from activists promoting harmful agendas. Through network and coalition building investigating reporting, litigation, and engagement on local, state, and national policies, we fight educational - Cont. sched O

Executive compensation, broken down

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

President Secretary
$359k
$381k
Base
$350k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
Senior Advisor
key employee
$204k
$216k
Base
$198k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
Vice President
vice president
$198k
$210k
Base
$185k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$8k
Director of Advocacy
highest compensated employee
$164k
$174k
Base
$149k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$10k
Director Outreach
highest compensated employee
$143k
$151k
Director Development
$121k
$128k

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 5 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy

Up 5%
from 2023

From $341k in 2023 to $359k in 2024.

$341k
2023
$359k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 2% in real terms$374k to $381k

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

DEFENDING EDUCATION reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$5.1M
$4.9M
2023
$5.3M
$5M
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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