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Filing year 2024

The Oakland Institute

Oakland, California·EIN 42-1626352·NTEE K052 · Food, Agriculture & Nutrition·3
Total revenue
$623k
Total assets
$2.8M
Total expenses
$671k
Reported officers
6
Mission

The Oakland Institute, an independent policy think tank, works to support global struggles for Indigenous rights, human rights, and land rights and to promote public participation and fair debate on critical social, economic, and environmental issues.

Executive compensation, broken down

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

Executive Director
$160k
$170k
Base
$160k
Bonus
Other
Benefits

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 5 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Food, Agriculture & Nutrition

Up 23%
from 2023

From $130k in 2023 to $160k in 2024.

$130k
2023
$160k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 20% in real terms$142k to $170k

Estimated with San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 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 Oakland Institute reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$467k
$659k
2023
$623k
$671k
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Food, Agriculture & Nutrition executives earn in California

Comparable food, agriculture & nutrition organizations in California pay their highest-earning executive a median of $85,252.

25th percentile
$53k
Median
$85,252
75th percentile
$162k
90th percentile
$276k

These are food, agriculture & nutrition sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 85 organizations across 85 filings (2021 – 2023).

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