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Filing year 2024

THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION

Washington, District of Columbia·EIN 33-1137541·NTEE Z99 · Unknown·3
Total revenue
$58.6M
Total assets
$13.5M
Total expenses
$52.4M
Reported officers
15
Mission

THE MISSION OF THE ORGANIZATION IS TO FOSTER STRONG, INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM THAT HELPS CREATE POSITIVE SOCIETAL CHANGE THROUGH INCREASED PUBLIC AWARENESS OF PROGRESSIVE ISSUES.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 8 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Executive Editor
highest compensated employee
$153k
$162k
Base
$140k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$8k
Digital Director
highest compensated employee
$143k
$152k
Senior Reporter
highest compensated employee
$127k
$134k
Editor
highest compensated employee
$125k
$133k
Senior Writer
highest compensated employee
$117k
$124k
Senior Editor
highest compensated employee
$113k
$120k
$101k
$107k
$60k
$63k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with BLS CPI-U for the South region, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 7 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in organizationPage.redesign.benchmarkBuilder.ntee.Z

Down 17%
from 2023

From $183k in 2023 to $153k in 2024.

$183k
2023
$153k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 19% in real terms$200k to $162k

Estimated with BLS CPI-U for the South region, 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

THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$18.4M
$16.2M
2023
$58.6M
$52.4M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

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

Comparable organizationpage.redesign.benchmarkbuilder.ntee.z organizations nationwide pay their highest-earning executive a median of $68,938.

25th percentile
$25k
Median
$68,938
75th percentile
$137k
90th percentile
$262k

These are organizationpage.redesign.benchmarkbuilder.ntee.z sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 499 organizations across 499 filings (2021 – 2023).

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