Leaderboards

The highest-paid people, the vendors paid most, the charities with the most money in the bank, and more. Straight from the filings, each with its tax year and coverage window.

Launch scope: filings from organizations reporting at least $10,000,000 in revenue or $50,000,000 in assets that year. Every board's exact rule is on its page and on the Data page.

The boards

1. Highest-paid people “The Corner Office”
   The largest total compensation reported for one person on one filing, per person per tax year.
   tax years 2008 to 2025, e-filed returns only; 950,627 rows
   Top: Kelby Krabbenholt $44,353,819, 2020; Kelby Krabbenhoft $44,353,819, 2020; Roger Goodell $44,183,000, 2012
2. Fundraising event costs “Galas, parties and soirees”
   Organizations whose fundraising events include galas, balls, dinners, parties, auctions and the like: what their events cost, cost per dollar, the biggest single events, food and entertainment, and events that lost money.
   Most spent on fundraising events · Cost per $1 of receipts: fundraising events · Biggest single fundraising events · Food, drink and entertainment: fundraising events · Lowest net: fundraising events
   tax years 2008 to 2025, e-filed returns only; 40,175 rows
   Top: DUCKS UNLIMITED INC $52,163,389, 2024; AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC $43,912,142, 2016; BREAKTHROUGH T1D $31,012,479, 2018
3. Fundraising events beyond the mission “The Side Show”
   Every fundraising event that isn't the charity's own work: galas plus golf outings, raffles, hospitality, walks and runs. The same five views as the galas board, for the wider set.
   Most spent on fundraising events beyond the mission · Cost per $1 of receipts: fundraising events beyond the mission · Biggest single fundraising events beyond the mission · Food, drink and entertainment: fundraising events beyond the mission · Lowest net: fundraising events beyond the mission
   tax years 2008 to 2025, e-filed returns only; 91,754 rows
   Top: DUCKS UNLIMITED INC $52,163,389, 2024; AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC $51,988,787, 2013; UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION $50,081,678, 2024
4. Donor-advised fund sponsors “Who Holds the Funds”
   Every organization whose returns say it maintains donor-advised funds, ranked by the value of those funds at year end.
   tax years 2009 to 2025, e-filed returns only; 35,528 rows
   Top: FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND $85,481,718,948, 2024; NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR $55,895,378,438, 2024; DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING $47,352,597,100, 2024
5. Schools and university pay “Report Card”
   Every school in the federal college directory with what we have on it: public payroll, IPEDS faculty salary averages, affiliated nonprofits' 990s, funders, event costs and coaches. Then the public university payroll boards: highest pay, athletics, coaches (payroll and 990s together), administrators against faculty, and the biggest raises.
   Schools · Highest-paid public university employees · Athletic department pay · Coaches' pay, payroll and 990s together · Administrators' pay against faculty salaries · Biggest year-over-year raises
   tax years 2009 to 2027, e-filed returns only; 9,286 rows
   Top: New York University $11,845,797,478, None; University of Pennsylvania $11,009,921,000, None; Stanford University $9,686,130,733, None
6. Highest-paid vendors “Invoice Royalty”
   The largest payments to independent contractors, as listed by the paying organization.
   tax years 2008 to 2025, e-filed returns only; 1,043,616 rows
   Top: KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $27,159,027,043, 2024; KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $23,955,495,645, 2023; KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $22,798,429,541, 2022
7. Cash reserves in years of spending “Dragon Hoard”
   How many years the organization could keep spending at this year's rate from what it holds.
   tax years 2008 to 2025, e-filed returns only; 376,319 rows
   Top: HARVARD MANAGEMENT PRIVATE EQUITY CORPORATION 9,598.1 yrs, 2024; KAISER FOUND HEALTH PLAN INC RETIREE HEALTH & WELFARE PLAN TR 2,576.0 yrs, 2015; POINT32HEALTH INC 2,383.2 yrs, 2021
8. Fundraising cost per dollar raised “The Most Expensive Dollar”
   What it cost to raise each dollar of contributions.
   tax years 2008 to 2025, e-filed returns only; 146,059 rows
   Top: ONESHARE HEALTH LLC $19.19, 2022; JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL ENDOWMENT FUND INCORPORATED $10.58, 2019; COPPERHEAD CHARITIES INC $10.20, 2024
9. Highest single salary at organizations with under $1M revenue “Small Org, Big Check”
   The best-paid person at organizations that took in less than $1 million that year.
   tax years 2008 to 2025, e-filed returns only; 2,226 rows
   Top: Bernard Tyson $35,479,539, 2019; James Skogsbergh $30,862,679, 2024; Eugene Woods $18,576,902, 2023
10. Biggest year-over-year jumps “Biggest Swings”
    Revenue or one person's pay at least ten times the year before.
    tax years 2010 to 2025, e-filed returns only; 4,590 rows
    Top: RED GATES FOUNDATION 5,332.0x, 2022; SUMMIT FOUNDATION 4,470.6x, 2023; THE TELLURAY FOUNDATION 2,803.4x, 2015
11. Large revenue, one employee or none “Phantom Staff”
    Organizations with at least $5 million in revenue that report one employee or none.
    tax years 2008 to 2025, e-filed returns only; 49,391 rows
    Top: FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND $30,633,210,968, 2024; FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND $19,858,151,933, 2021; FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND $18,985,204,861, 2023
12. Organizations with nearly identical names “Lookalikes”
    Large organizations that share a name, or almost, with other organizations.
    tax years 2008 to 2025, e-filed returns only; 3,509 rows
    Top: AMERICAN LEGION 1.00, 2024; ROTARY INTERNATIONAL 1.00, 2024; LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC 1.00, 2024
13. Vendors paid by many organizations “Everybody's Contractor”
    Contractors listed by 3 or more different organizations in the same tax year.
    tax years 2009 to 2025, e-filed returns only; 43,607 rows
    Top: SODEXO INC & AFFILIATES 191, 2019; SODEXO INC & AFFILIATES 188, 2018; SODEXO INC & AFFILIATES 187, 2017
14. Loans between organizations and insiders “In-House Lending”
    Loans to or from officers, directors, key employees and other interested persons, by balance due.
    tax years 2008 to 2025, e-filed returns only; 71,747 rows
    Top: GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY $1,159,912,419, 2020; GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY $1,069,912,419, 2018; CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIGHEREDUCATION INC $431,000,000, 2012
15. Foundations paying out right at the legal minimum “Hugging the Floor”
    Private foundations whose qualifying distributions came to 5.0% to 5.2% of their investment assets for 5 or more years in a row.
    tax years 2017 to 2021, e-filed returns only; 3 rows
    Top: HALL-PERRINE FOUNDATION 8, 2017; DEKKO FOUNDATION INC 6, 2021; EULA MAE AND JOHN BAUGH FOUNDATION 5, 2020
16. Largest grant went to an organization sharing a board member “Funding Loops”
    Grantmakers whose biggest grant of the year went to an organization where one of their own people also served that year.
    tax years 2009 to 2025, e-filed returns only; 28,705 rows
    Top: GATES FOUNDATION TRUST $8,096,000,000, 2024; UNDERWRITERS LABORATORIES INC $7,632,896,943, 2021; CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION THERAPEUTICS INC $3,180,372,057, 2014
17. Contractors at the organization's address or with an insider's name “Close to Home”
    Independent contractors listed at the paying organization's own address, or with the same name as a person on the same filing.
    tax years 2008 to 2025, e-filed returns only; 12,285 rows
    Top: INDEPENDENT PRACTICE ASSOCIATION OF WNY $1,111,614,121, 2024; INDIVIDUAL PRACTICE ASSOCIATION OF WNY $1,052,238,421, 2016; INDIVIDUAL PRACTICE ASSOCIATION OF WNY $1,048,135,644, 2015
18. Student loan securitizations “Class of Debt”
    Trusts holding pools of student loans that report to the SEC every month: the biggest pools, the highest default, charge-off and delinquency rates, and where delinquency rose fastest. From Form 10-D servicing reports.
    Largest student loan pools · Highest student loan delinquency rates · Fastest-rising student loan delinquency · Highest student loan default rates · Highest student loan charge-off rates
    tax years 2004 to 2026, e-filed returns only; 517 rows
    Top: SLM Student Loan Trust 2007-4 $4,758,272,560, 2007; SLM Student Loan Trust 2008-9 $4,165,180,530, 2008; SLM Student Loan Trust 2008-5 $4,085,316,393, 2008

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