How to Make Delicious Vegan Meatballs
These vegan meatballs are a great alternative to the good old fashioned meatball. Instead of relying on meat, eggs, cheese, and breadcrumbs, these super easy vegan meatballs are made primarily of beans, couscous, tomato sauce, onions, lots of seasoning, and brown rice flour to make an alternative meatball that goes great with your favorite pasta. Moist and “meaty,” these “beanballs” are simply delicious (and full of fiber). Read more 
Executive Compensation at the Alliance Defending Freedom (2021)
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is a tax-exempt, non-profit 501 (c) 3 that is described as a conservative legal advocacy group that works to curtail rights of LGBTQ people while expanding “christian practices” in public schools and government (who serve all people), and to prevent access to a woman’s right to choose. How do they do this? Primarily through challenges in the legal system and taking on cases that further their mission and goals including the most recent case about a Colorado-based web page designer who “does not want to” (note: she hasn’t been asked to) create wedding websites for gay couples. Read more
Where Does $100 to Doctors Without Borders Go (2021)?
Doctors Without Borders (DWB) or “Médicins Sans Frontiers” in French, is an international humanitarian medical organization – tax-exempt and non-profit – of French origin that provides emergency and medical care around the world. The US office is one of 24 worldwide offices that is governed by 14 voting members (directors), 13 of whom are independent, of the governing body (board of directors).
So, if you made a donation to the US office of DWB, how was the money used? The short answer is that 75% of the revenue raised was given via grants to 7 non-profits in Europe that in turn used the funds to provide medical care primarily in Sub-Sahara Africa and the Middle East and Northern Africa. Read more
Executive Compensation at Doctors Without Borders (2021)
Doctors Without Borders (DWB) or Médicins Sans Frontiers in French, is an international humanitarian medical organization – tax-exempt and non-profit – of French origin that provides emergency and medical care around the world. The US office is one of 24 worldwide offices that is governed by 14 voting members (directors), 13 of whom are independent, of the governing body (board of directors).
So, if you made a donation to the US office of DWB, how was the money used? The short answer is that 75% of the revenue raised was given via grants to 7 non-profits in Europe that in turn used the funds to provide medical care primarily in Sub-Sahara Africa and the Middle East and Northern Africa. Read more
Executive Compensation at Trinity Health (2020)
Trinity Health is a tax-exempt non-profit Catholic healthcare system that employee more than 123,000 in 88 hospitals and more than 135 continuing healthcare locations (i.e. senior living, hospice, home care, etc) in 26 states. Based in Livonia, Michigan, Trinity Health includes hundreds of related and affiliated organizations. This post reports the executive compensation at Trinity Health Corporation (THC), which overseas the entire healthcare system.
Governed by 14 directors (13 of whom are independent), THC has a board made up of 6 women and 8 men. Read more
Executive Compensation at the Robin Hood Foundation (2021)
The Robin Hood Foundation (RHF) – a 501 (c) (3) based in New York City – is an organization that primarily awards grants to organizations fighting poverty by providing food, shelter, and healthcare and by helping people lift themselves out of poverty. They do this primarily by awarding grants (in 2021, the organization collected $140 million in revenue and awarded $172 million in grants) and reported $33 million in organization expenses (which is reportedly paid for by the 39 board members – an average of $850,000 each to fully cover operational expenses).
In 2021, RHF had 162 employees who were compensated $22 million, which equates to an average compensation of $135,000. However, only 75 employees received more than $100,000 in compensation. The 16 most highly compensated individuals were: Read more
How Revenue is Spent at the Robin Hood Foundation(2021)
The Robin Hood Foundation (RHF) is not a “rob from the rich, give to the poor” organization although RHF is known for having a wealthy Board of Directors who financially support the organization so that donations can be used to help alleviate poverty in New York City. How does RHF do this? Primarily by providing grants to other non-profits who provide food, shelter and health services along with education so that people can lift themselves out of poverty.
In a sense, RHF is a “United Way” for non-profits in New York City whose focus is on poverty. They solicit grants, screen the organizations, and disburse donations in the form of grants. Unlike United Way, the RHF states “100% of your donation goes directly to our community partners” on the front page of their website (www.robinhood.org) because “our board pays for all administrative costs.” That’s an amazing claim, especially for donors who are interested in their dollars going as far as possible to help alleviate poverty in a city where 1 in 5 people are estimated to live in poverty. Read more
Executive Compensation at Pew Charitable Trusts
The Pew Charitable Trusts (PCT) was established by the Pew family as a “global public policy change agent” and was changed from a status of private foundation to tax-exempt, non-profit in 2004 which allows the organization to raise funds freely and devote up to 5% of annual expenditures to lobbying the public sector. Although PCT is “non-partisan,” the founders were conservative.
PCT appears to be involved in two major processes: making grants and supporting the staff who manage the organization and related organizations.
There are 10 members of the governing body, 9 of whom are independent; 7 of whom share the Pew name. Net assets were $1 billion at year-end. Read more
How Pew Charitable Trusts Spends Revenue (2021)
The Pew Charitable Trusts (PCT) was established by the Pew family as a “global public policy change agent” and was changed from a status of private foundation to tax-exempt, non-profit in 2004 which allows the organization to raise funds freely and devote up to 5% of annual expenditures to lobbying the public sector. Although PCT is “non-partisan,” the founders were conservative.
PCT appears to be involved in two major processes: making grants and supporting the staff who manage the organization and related organizations.
There are 10 members of the governing body, 9 of whom are independent; 7 of whom share the Pew name. Read more
Executive Compensation at Drexel University (2021)
Drexel University is a private research university in Philadelphia, PA (although there are satellite campuses) with about 24,000 students (an estimated 15,000 undergraduate students and 9,000 graduate students). The annual cost of tuition, room and board (undergraduate) is about $76,000.
In 2021, Drexel reported total revenue of $1.2 billion (compared to $1.3 billion in 2020) with the largest sources being tuition and fees ($966 million), government grants ($162 million), related organizations ($41 million) and contributions, gifts ,and grants ($39 million).
Expenses totaled $1.2 billion (not including $49 million in depreciation) with the largest expenses reported to be compensation-related ($494 million), grants ($426 million) – primarily to individuals ($403 million to 23,533 or an average of $17,000 each), office-related ($132 million), and fees ($59 million) – primarily other expenses of $50 million with no detail provided). Read more
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