[Biologist123]

The type of organisation you are talking about, typically styled as NGOs (non-governmental organisations) are anything but. They are in fact huge - often international - delivery vehicles for government funds, with a dispensation to raise money from the public too - hence charitable status. So it’s just as much an issue why a de facto civil servant makes a million bucks a year as does the head of a charity.

And here’s the weird philanthropic angle: as an NGO head you only get access to the government cash spigot if you can show “co-finance”, typically private, which will 3x a philanthropist’s funding and give them huge power in resource allocation.