[galangalalgol]

If it was the head of the foundation making that much no one would donate. It would be a matter of opportunity cost. A non profit that size would normally have a leader compensated on the level of a software developer. I'd argue the ceo of the corporation is also wildly overcompensated too, but that normally wouldn't be relevant to the decision to donate. The issue arises because of the close financial ties between the corporation and the foundation, which is enough to prevent my donations by itself, those ties though create the perception that fewer donations would increase transfers from the corporation. If that is in fact true, then the question of opportunity cost does extend to all of the corporations expenses and someone considering donating sgould absolutely consider all of those expenses and decide if they are doing good with their donation or not.

[Forgeties79]

> A non profit that size would normally have a leader compensated on the level of a software developer.

I hate doing the “source?” thing but this is not obviously the case to me so can you explain your reasoning here or show me a source?

[galangalalgol]

Charitynavigator and guidestar have datasets. Most websites have you pick a charity and then give you metrics to judge by rather than picking a metric. But they indicate for a non profit with revenue between 10-50M (mozilla foundation is 30M I think?) usually has compensation for the leader between 180k and 350k.

[Forgeties79]

Their annual revenue is over 10x that. It usually is around 500mill annually, currently down to around 400mill.

[galangalalgol]

That is the corporation, not the foundation right? Over 100M it should be less than 1% so as much as 4M if it is 400M.