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Filing year 2023

The Pew Charitable Trusts

Washington, District of Columbia·EIN 56-2307147·NTEE T30 · Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundations·3
Total revenue
$408.9M
Total assets
$1.4B
Total expenses
$380.1M
Reported officers
21

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 11 reported individuals · Filing year 2023

Base salaryBonusOther compensationBenefits
Base salaryBonusOther compensationBenefitsExecutive compensation
President and CEO
$1.2M
$1.4M
Evp, COO and CFO
$639k
$701k
Evp, External Affairs
executive vice president
$614k
$673k
Svp, General Counsel/corp Secretary
senior vice president
$610k
$668k
Evp, Chief Program Officer
$604k
$663k
Svp, Gov't Relations (end 6/23)
senior vice president
$589k
$646k
Svp, Partnerships
senior vice president
$579k
$635k
Svp, Environment
senior vice president
$540k
$591k
Svp, Strategy
senior vice president
$426k
$467k
Svp, Government Performance
senior vice president
$413k
$453k
Vp, Finance and Treasurer
vice president
$352k
$386k

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 10 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking

Up 5%
from 2022

From $1.2M in 2022 to $1.2M in 2023.

$1.2M
2022
$1.2M
2023
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 2% in real terms$1.3M to $1.4M

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

The Pew Charitable Trusts reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$415.2M
$361.4M
2022
$408.9M
$380.1M
2023
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking executives earn in District of Columbia

Comparable philanthropy, voluntarism & grantmaking organizations in District of Columbia pay their highest-earning executive a median of $132,000.

25th percentile
$47k
Median
$132,000
75th percentile
$285k
90th percentile
$437k

These are philanthropy, voluntarism & grantmaking sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 149 organizations across 149 filings (2022 – 2024).

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