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Filing year 2024

THE SPHERE INSTITUTE

Burlingame, California·EIN 91-1748201·NTEE V20 · Social Science·3
Total revenue
$1.8M
Total assets
$26M
Total expenses
$1.6M
Reported officers
11
Mission

THE SPHERE INSTITUTE WORKS WITH PUBLIC AGENCIES AND GROUPS TO ENHANCE THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF AMERICA'S NATIONAL AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES BY PROVIDING ANALYSES CRITICAL TO THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF EFFECTIVE PUBLIC POLICY, IMPROVING PUBLIC ACCESS TO NATURE AND OPEN SPACES IN URBAN COMMUNITIES, AND PROMOTING LIFELONG LEARNING FROM EARLY CHILDHOOD TO PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION.

Executive compensation

Form 990 · Schedule J · 6 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Secretary
secretary (operational)
$22k
$23k
$18k
$20k
Chief Financial Officer
$12k
$12k
Director of Human Resources
key employee
$11k
$12k
Chief Operating Officer
$7k
$7k
Director of Employee Development
$5k
$5k

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 Social Science

Up 11%
from 2023

From $19k in 2023 to $22k in 2024.

$19k
2023
$22k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 8% in real terms$21k to $23k

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 SPHERE INSTITUTE reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$755k
$541k
2023
$1.8M
$1.6M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Social Science executives earn

Comparable social science organizations nationwide pay their highest-earning executive a median of $96,366.

25th percentile
$35k
Median
$96,366
75th percentile
$193k
90th percentile
$381k

These are social science sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 106 organizations across 106 filings (2022 – 2023).

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