[willieroe]

... many “charities” pay their CEOs exorbitant amounts of money. Take St. Jude Medical Center, during years when we could barely make our house payment my wife was contributing thousands of dollars to them.

Take a closer look at the webpage you posted from.... St. Jude Medical is a "global medical device company headquartered in Little Canada, Minnesota." (from Wikipedia) It has no affiliation with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

[fireman15]

Take a closer look at the webpage you posted from.... St. Jude Medical is a “global medical device company headquartered in Little Canada, Minnesota.” (from Wikipedia) It has no affiliation with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

OOPs! Well St. Jude Medical Center's CEO, William E. Evan's base salary was $1.3 million in 2014. This still seems excessive to me for someone running a charity.

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=12847