How 3 Organizations Pay Their Top Fundraisers

Whitney Museum of American Art

Alexandra Wheeler, Deputy Director for Development

Pay: $329,738 in 2011

Years in current job: 7

Years in fundraising: 22

How much she and her colleagues raised: $15.5-million in 2011; $16-million last year

Number of fundraisers at the museum: 38 full-time and 2 part-time assistants

Current campaign: In a drive to raise $665-million by June 2015

Education: B.A. in history from Brown University

Biggest gift during tenure: $131-million for the museum’s endowment from Leonard Lauder, president of the American Art Foundation

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Cleveland Clinic

Armando Chardiet, Chairman of Institutional Relations and Development

Pay: $677,906 in 2011

Years in current job: 4

Years in fundraising: 29

How much raised in 2013: $173-million

Number of staff members in the fundraising office: 100

Current campaign: Now in a “quiet” phase of a drive yet to be announced formally

Education: B.A., Southern Connecticut State; M.S., University of Pennsylvania

Biggest gift during tenure: $30-million from Pauline Braathen, a longtime patient, for the clinic’s Florida facility

Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano

Marilu Boucher, Development Director

Pay: $108,343 in 20111

Years in current job: 16

Years in fundraising: 19

How much raised in 2013: $8.5-million

Number of fundraisers: 5

Current campaign: Seeking gifts to match a $200,000 challenge grant for its Community Produce Program

Education: B.A. in rhetoric and communications, University at Albany, New York

Biggest gift during tenure: $639,000 planned gift in 2012

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