What’s the annual income of your favorite Philadelphia-based nonprofit’s top staffer?

Generocity wrote about CEO salaries this past January and summarized that we’re asking the wrong questions when it comes to nonprofit executive wages. As former reporter Tony Abraham noted at the time about the annual uproar over how much certain directors get paid:

On the surface, the outrage makes a lot of sense. First, unlike for-profit CEOs, salary information for nonprofit executives is easily accessible. And, also unlike for-profits, nonprofits are legally bound by a social mission, so the perceived-to-be-high wages just feel … dirty.

But rather than focus on the people at the top, Abraham wrote, “maybe the more important question is, why shouldn’t entry- and junior-level nonprofit workers be paid wages that are on par with their for-profit colleagues?”

Following our publication of a list of the 50 biggest nonprofits incorporated in Philadelphia according to income, we dove a little deeper into those organizations’ publicly available tax forms (thanks, GuideStar!) to find out how much money their execs earn — not to spark outrage, but to celebrate transparency, and to continue the conversation we started this past winter. (But please, let us know how you feel either way — philly@generocity.org.)

Some notes first:

The below income totals include base compensation, plus any listed compensation from related organizations and other compensation.

The majority of the following organizations’ tax forms, which are the most recently available on their GuideStar profiles, are from the 2015-2016 fiscal year. Only the orgs with asterisks next to their names have 2017 forms listed — and one, North Philadelphia Health System , comes from 2015 (+).

, comes from 2015 (+). Not every CEO/president/ED/etc. is their org’s highest-paid staffer. Presbyterian Medical Center of the University of Pennsylvania Health (#14) Ex-Officio Board Member Ralph Muller , for instance, made $2,622,630.

(#14) Ex-Officio Board Member , for instance, made $2,622,630. Again, again, again: Most for-profits don’t need to publish their tax forms, so we may never know how the below salaries stack up against them.

Here are the executive salaries listed on the 50 biggest local nonprofits’ most recent tax forms:

From our Partners

President and ex-officio trustee — Dr. Amy Gutmann

2016 income — $3,537,020

Note: Gutmann has been consistently among the highest-paid presidents of private universities in recent years.

CEO and trustee — Madeline Bell

2016 income — $2,032,558

Note: Bell also oversees #7, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation.

President — Dr. Neil Theobald

2016 income — $739,924

Note: The Chronicle of Higher Education reported this summer that Theobald earned $1,380,071 in the 2016-2017 fiscal year (the tax form of which is not yet available on GuideStar), making him the fourth-highest-paid president of a public university in that year. This amount likely included his severance package after his 2016 resignation. Richard Englert became the university’s next president in July 2016.

President and CEO — William George

2016 income — $1,132,138

President and trustee — Richard Webster

2016 income — $802,994

President — John Fry

2016 income — $2,226,838

CEO and trustee — Madeline Bell

Madeline Bell 2016 income — $2,032,558

President and CEO — Rebecca Rimel

2017 income — $1,207,756

President and CEO — Barry Freedman

2016 income — $2,292,777

Note: Freedman is also the president and CEO of the Albert Einstein Health Network, #49.

President and CEO — Dr. Verdi DiSesa

2016 income — $943,192

Note: John Kastanis is named as the organization’s former president and CEO and earned $752,611 in this fiscal year. Neil Theobald is also listed as a director, including his aforementioned 2016 income.

CEO — Joan Erney

2016 income — $182,760

President and CEO — Roy Peterson

2017 income — $437,457

Labor trustee co-chair — John Ballantyne

2017 income — $309,106

Executive director and ex-officio member — Michele Volpe

2016 income — $814,782

Information not available

President and trustee — Dr. Stephen Klasko

2016 income — $2,682,353

Director, president and CEO — Kathleen Kinslow

2016 income — $1,504,928

President and trustee — Dr. Anne Boland Docimo

2016 income — $986,942

Note: Dr. Stephen Klasko is listed as chairman and director. Former President Dr. Mark Tykocinski is also listed as receiving $1,152,838.

Information not available

President — Mark Reed

2016 income — $331,079

President and CEO — Dr. Richard Fisher

2016 income — $914,891

Trustee — The Glenmede Trust Co., N.A.

2016 income — $11,401,791

President — Dr. Joseph St. Geme III

2016 income — $1,061,785

President and CEO — Dyann Roth

2016 income — $176,385

Note: Generocity reported on Roth’s departure — and asked if her relatively low salary was a factor in her decision to leave — in June 2017. Former CFO Marco Giordano took over permanently in January and told us when we interviewed him for the aforementioned nonprofit executive wages story that at RHD, the compensation of the CEO cannot be greater than 14 times the lowest-paid employee.

President — Dr. Colleen Hanycz

2017 income — $512,076

President — Donald Melnick

2016 income — $1,202,026

Note: Dr. Peter Katsufrakis was named the organization’s new president and CEO in January 2017.

CEO name — Dr. Marc Hurowitz

2016 income — $515,069

Note: Former President and CEO Linda Grass stepped down in 2015 but earned $526,151 in this fiscal year.

Chairman —Herman Matthews

2017 income — $333,416

CEO — Richard Cohen

2017 income — $1,052,157

Director and executive director of Nazareth Hospital — Nancy Cherone

2016 income — $320,802

Note: Mercy Health System manages Nazareth and is led by Susan Croushore, listed in this tax form as receiving $711,474 in 2016.

Information not available

Administrator — John Gaittens

2017 income — $202,021

Note: Prior Administrator Thomas Lamb is included in this tax form and reportedly made $213,343 in this fiscal year.

Director and CEO — Timothy Rub

2016 income — $613,716

President and CEO (term 1/15) — Sean Buffington

Interim president (1/15 to 7/15) — Kirk Pillow

Interim president and provost — Stephan Tarantal

2016 income — $55,458; $162,419; and $116,611, respectively

Note: Phew, that was a hell of a year for transitions. David Yager became president of the school in January 2015.

Information not available

President and CEO — Jay Feldstein

2016 income — $590,868

CEO name — Paul Katz

2017 income — $196,482

President — Stephen Spinelli

2016 income — $538,029

Note: The Philadelphia University/Thomas Jefferson University merger didn’t take effect until July 1, 2017, so the subsequent change in TJU’s tax info won’t be visible until its 2018 form is released.

President and CEO — Pedro Ramos

2016 income — $344,283

Information not available

President and CEO — Dr. Larry Kaiser

Dr. Larry Kaiser 2017 income — $1,918,877

Executive director — Rebecca Cornejo

2016 income — $224,167

CEO name — Linda Flocco

2016 income — $269,134

Note: A number of listed directors and assistant secretaries make much, much more than this. Director and chairman Dr. N. Scott Adzick, for instance, made $1,606,562.

Information not available

Note: The foundation saw several directors pass through around this time. Former Program Officer Shawn McCaney was promoted to executive director in March 2017. (He made $256,280 in 2016.)

Director, president and CEO — Ronald Kumor

2016 income — $708,665

President and CEO — George Walmsley III

2015 income — $670,004

President and CEO — Holly Lange

2016 income — $468,283

President and CEO — Dr. Dario Altieri

2016 income — $569,581

CEO name — Barry Freedman

2017 income — $2,105,839