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Filing year 2024

THE SIMONS FOUNDATION INC

New York, New York·EIN 13-3794889·NTEE T20 · Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundations·3
Total revenue
$171.4M
Total assets
$4.5B
Total expenses
$0
Reported officers
16

Executive compensation

Form 990-PF · Schedule J · 11 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Base salaryExecutive compensation
President
unclassified
$929k
$1M
Cfo/treasurer
unclassified
$510k
$552k
Gen. Counsel/sec./chief Compl. Off.
unclassified
$456k
$493k
Trustee
board member
$20k
$22k
Trustee
board member
$20k
$22k
Trustee
board member
$19k
$21k
Trustee/vice Chair
board chair
$18k
$19k
Trustee
board member
$18k
$19k
Trustee
board member
$17k
$18k
Trustee
board member
$15k
$16k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA 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 Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking

Down 6%
from 2023

From $991k in 2023 to $929k in 2024.

$991k
2023
$929k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 10% in real terms$1.1M to $1M

Estimated with New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA 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 SIMONS FOUNDATION INC reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$124.1M
2023
$171.4M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking executives earn in New York

Comparable philanthropy, voluntarism & grantmaking organizations in New York pay their highest-earning executive a median of $35,077.

25th percentile
$9k
Median
$35,077
75th percentile
$121k
90th percentile
$281k

These are philanthropy, voluntarism & grantmaking sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 1,285 organizations across 1,285 filings (2021 – 2024).

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