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Filing year 2023

THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE

La Jolla, California·EIN 33-0435954·NTEE H92 · Medical Research·3
Total revenue
$641.1M
Total assets
$1.3B
Total expenses
$528.4M
Reported officers
30
Mission

THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ("TSRI") PERFORMS HIGH IMPACT BASIC BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, IMPROVES THE HUMAN CONDITION BY FOSTERING TRANSLATION OF ITS DISCOVERIES INTO USEFUL PRODUCTS AND ENGAGES IN THE HIGHEST QUALITY GRADUATE SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION AND POST GRADUATE SCIENTIFIC TRAINING. TSRI IS KNOWN FOR ITS ENTREPRENEURIAL ENVIRONMENT AND ITS EMPHASIS IN RESEARCH RELATING TO SYNTHETIC CHEMISTRY, THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND ACTIVITY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 15 reported individuals · Filing year 2023

Base salaryBonusOther compensationBenefits
Base salaryBonusOther compensationBenefitsExecutive compensation
$1.8M
$2M
Professor/exec VP
vice president
$1.1M
$1.2M
COO (end 9/24)/cfo
$863k
$957k
Entrepreneur in Residence
highest compensated employee
$781k
$866k
General Counsel
officer (unspecified)
$661k
$733k
Sr. Director, Calibr
highest compensated employee
$624k
$693k
Chief Medical Officer
highest compensated employee
$614k
$681k
Vp, Pharmaceutical Dev & Qual
vice president
$595k
$660k
CFO VP Adm. Calibr
$531k
$589k
Vp, Rsch & Acad Affairs (end 1/23)
vice president
$432k
$479k
Treasurer/chief Accounting Officer
$411k
$456k
Secretary/chief Compliance Officer
secretary (operational)
$303k
$336k
Asst. Sec./director Sp (end 2/24)
director (operational)
$269k
$299k
Former Chief Operating Officer
former officer/director/trustee
$181k
$200k
Faculty Director/professor
board member
$131k
$145k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with San Diego-Carlsbad, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 15 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Medical Research

Up 13%
from 2022

From $1.6M in 2022 to $1.8M in 2023.

$1.6M
2022
$1.8M
2023
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 8% in real terms$1.8M to $2M

Estimated with San Diego-Carlsbad, 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

THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$815.8M
$532.6M
2022
$641.1M
$528.4M
2023
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Medical Research executives earn in California

Comparable medical research organizations in California pay their highest-earning executive a median of $125,000.

25th percentile
$61k
Median
$125,000
75th percentile
$290k
90th percentile
$610k

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

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