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.

https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/951648219

  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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    5 days ago

    The head of the American Red Cross makes about 750k, last I heard.

    Whether or not that’s justified either, I think we can all agree it’s a little bit larger of an organization with more responsibility to juggle.

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      Some of these charities are approaching large corporations in size and complexity. Getting people with experience to run them can be hard and the people that do do it often do it as a charitable contribution.