Thoughts about non-profit organizations

[Kerry]

For this post we say there are two types of non-profit organizations.

• An organization in which the CEO and some staff receive money that serves as their primary source of income, often referred to as a for-profit non-profit organization.
• An organization in which all concerned are volunteers, no one receives remuneration; this is referred to here as an actual non-profit. The CEO has another full-time job or they have retirement income.

With the for-profit non-profit organization, the founder needed income and so they created a way of generating personal income, serving the community, without having to pay taxes.

Many are skeptical of "non-profits," in part because we know the CEO is living at a higher standard of living than most teachers and most of its donor/participants. I.e. Most clergy receive tithings from parishioners, a percentage of it from parishioners themselves on welfare. All know that if asked, few would say that it's Ok to give away welfare money. No parishioner receiving welfare has asked a neighbor, "Can I give money you gave me to survive with to a church?

Most For-profit non-profit CEOs earn more than teachers, their mentors, those who taught them how to earn a living; none are motivated to bring along their mentors. The subject of acknowledgment has not been effectively taught.

Examples of salaries:

Chief: Red Cross: $500,000.00 annually
CEO: UNICEF: $1,200,000.00 annually
CEO: Planned Parenthood: $345,338.00
CEO: Shriners Hospital: $1.500.000.00 per year while their nurses receive approx. $66,560.00 and the yearly budget for ads is about $27 million. Its 500+ doctors receive above-average incomes for doctors.

Compared with:

Superintendent Hawaii Public Schools: $170,391.00
Hawaii Public School Principal: $113,978.00
CEO of Hawaii Public Radio: $150,000.00

An exemplary model of an "actual" nonprofit org is the Salvation Army whose Commissioner receives $13,000.00 per year (plus housing) for managing this $2 billion dollar organization; about $0.93 per donation dollar goes back out to local charity causes.

It's no surprise that the majority of CEOs are male.

For-profit non-profit CEOs receive thrice+ the wages of their mentors. No CEO strives to bring along those who taught them. All CEOs non-verbally support educators begging for operating funds and salaries, this instead of ensuring a teacher's wage more nearly approximates the wages of former C students such as longshoremen, this philosophy has undesirable consequences for everyone. 

Many clerics send proselytizing money to other countries knowing there are hungry and homeless neighbors in their own communities. Such long-distance generosity doesn't speak well for the effects the church is having in its own community. All churches have square footage that is unused most every evening, while the homeless sleep on the ground just blocks away. Flight stewards advise putting on your oxygen mask first before trying to help another.

We know that such for-profit non-profit orgs could deliver their services for free because thousands of actual non-profit organizations do it. For them, salaries are not an operating expense.

Last edited 3/12/24