By BRUCE GOLDING
June 8, 2008
New York's nonprofits pay their CEOs more than any other city in the country - but don't raise the most money, a study shows.
The median salary for running a New York nonprofit is about $169,000, putting the Big Apple nearly $15,000 ahead of second-place San Diego in CEO pay.
But New York - which has 575 large charities - scored only fifth out of 30 major cities in median annual fund-raising.
Groups here collected $4.8 million each, far behind the $6.2 million raised by charities in Detroit, according to the report by Charity Navigator.
Topping the salary list is former Metropolitan Opera General Director Joseph Volpe, who pulled in $1.2 million a year before his 2006 retirement.
Big bucks also went to the Museum of Modern Art's Glenn Lowry, who commanded $902,000 in 2006.
Charity Navigator gave near-perfect marks to the city's official charity, the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, and the Children for Children educational charity founded by Silda Wall Spitzer, wife of ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
