I was planning to donate the couple bucks I had left over from the year to the charity called “San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance”, I was doing a background check on CharityNavigator and they gave the charity full ratings so it seemed good.
Then I stumbled upon the salary section. What the fuck? I earn <20k a year and was planning to contribute to someone’s million dollar salary? WHAT.
That salary should be elevated, but a more reasonable value would be $250-350K. At least in my extremely expensive market. That’s the guy that asks rich people for money. He generates multiples of his salary in value. He’s connected to the very wealthy. When I contributed to such efforts, I was invited to dine with Peter Lynch (who served lamb chops at his penthouse in Boston, it was an experience. Nice guy.).
He could get a well-paying job at virtually any large nonprofit.
Edit: CFO is also extremely competitive but that much at a nonprofit is fucken wild. $600K is what we pay our CFO at my very large and consequential nonprofit (like, we do innovative shit that saves lives across the world).
Who cares for your funking CFO? No way he’s the guy doing “innovative shit that saves lives across the world”, it’s the guys below him making a fraction of his salary.
You try running an org without a CFO and see how it goes.
Interesting. Our local art museum pays their philanthropic director about $170k. Smaller org of course.
Don’t want to dox you or anything but are you comfortable saying the nonprofit you work for? I’m just curious.
Fuck no.
Haha fair enough! Love it.