Charities - How Much You Really Contribute to the CEO's Salary!

Selecting a charity to support is a bit like playing God. Ideally, it should take into account your most deeply held concerns and convictions. Before sending in a donation to a group, consider how well it will spend your money!
Some groups receive large amounts of donated goods and services. These items can be difficult to value and distort the calculation of how efficiently a charity is spending your dollars!

So before you write that next check, take a look at these salaries...........makes corporate ceo's look good.

Harold Varmus, M.D., President/CEO
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
$2,120,585

Elan Steinberg, Senior Staff Person
World Jewish Congress (American Section)
$1,565,858


Gloria A. Feldt, Past President
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
$926,106

Roy Williams, Chief Scout Executive
Boy Scouts of America - N.O.
$916,028

Michael A. Friedman, M.D., President/CEO
City of Hope
$896,842

Wayne Lapierre, Executive VP
National Rifle Association
$895,897

John Seffrin, CEO
American Cancer Society
$881,528

James Maddy, Past President
National Park Foundation
$833,290

Barbara M. Silverstone, President/ CEO
Lighthouse International
$820,392

William D. Novelli, Secretary & Executive Director
AARP Foundation & AARP, respectively
$779,203


Brian A. Gallagher, President/CEO
United Way of America
$765,581

Steven E. Sanderson, President/ CEO
Wildlife Conservation Society
$750,004

Lynn Taussig, M.D., President/CEO
National Jewish Medical & Research Center
$748,348

Edwin J. Feulner, Jr., President/CEO
Heritage Foundation
$746,285

Robert J. Beall, President/CEO
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
$738,021

Stephen H. Hoffman, President/CEO
United Jewish Communities
$706,143


Richard A. Murphy, President/CEO
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
$684,033

Myra Biblowit, President
Breast Cancer Research Foundation
$643,451

Larry E. Kun, M.D., Chair Radiation Oncology
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
$638,538

Christopher C. DeMuth, President/ Trustee
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
$612,583

Mitchell S. Rosenthal, M.D., President
Phoenix House Foundation/ Development Fund
$593,367

Linda G. Martin, Past President
Population Council
$589,766

Abraham H. Foxman, National Director
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
$588,639

M. Cass Wheeler, CEO
American Heart Association
$583,787

Peter Van Etten, President/CEO
Juvenile Diabetes Research Fdn.
$544,853