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Filing year 2023

WORLD SCIENCE FOUNDATION

New York, New York·EIN 43-2095418·NTEE U20 · Science & Technology·3
Total revenue
$4.5M
Total assets
$19.3M
Total expenses
$5.3M
Reported officers
12
Mission

THE WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL IS A MULTIMEDIA ORGANIZATION PRODUCING ORIGINAL CONTENT STRADDLING SCIENCE, THE ARTS, JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION. FOUNDED IN 2008, WSF IS VIEWED BY MANY AS THE PREMIER PLATFORM BRINGING THE MOST TRANSFORMATIVE IDEAS AT THE FOREFRONT OF DISCOVERY TO MAINSTREAM AUDIENCES. WITH FORMATS SPANNING INNOVATIVE WORKS OF THEATRE, FILM, DANCE AND MUSIC, IMMERSIVE LIVE AND VIRTUAL EXPERIENCES, AS WELL AS RIVETING DISCUSSIONS AND DEBATES, WSF IS LAUDED GLOBALLY FOR ITS GROUNDBREAKING LIVE AND DIGITAL CONTENT FEATURING WORLD RENOWNED SCIENTISTS, ARTISTS AND INTELLECTUALS, SHIFTING SCIENCE TO THE CULTURAL CENTER. BASED IN NEW YORK CITY, WSF IS DISTINCTIVE IN ITS COMMITMENT TO THE HIGHEST OF EDITORIAL STANDARDS AND PRODUCTION EXCELLENCE, PROVIDING WORLDWIDE AUDIENCES AN EXCITING AND IMPACTFUL VIEW OF THE NEAR AND FAR FUTURE.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 7 reported individuals · Filing year 2023

Ceo/secretary
officer (unspecified)
$237k
$265k
Base
$237k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
Wsu President/director
board president
$226k
$254k
Base
$224k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
Senior Motion Graphics Vfx Animator
highest compensated employee
$171k
$192k
Base
$170k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
Exe. Producer, World Science Studios
key employee
$152k
$170k
Base
$151k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
Lead Editor/animator
highest compensated employee
$141k
$158k
President/treasurer
$122k
$137k
Dir. of Finance and Administration
highest compensated employee
$119k
$134k

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 Science & Technology

Held steady
from 2022

From $237k in 2022 to $237k in 2023.

$237k
2022
$237k
2023
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 4% in real terms$276k to $265k

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

WORLD SCIENCE FOUNDATION reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$4.5M
$5.6M
2022
$4.5M
$5.3M
2023
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Science & Technology executives earn

Comparable science & technology organizations nationwide pay their highest-earning executive a median of $111,215.

25th percentile
$35k
Median
$111,215
75th percentile
$231k
90th percentile
$443k

These are science & technology sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 255 organizations across 255 filings (2022 – 2023).

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