Nonprofit Groups That Paid Top Officials $1-Million or More
June 24, 2004 | Read Time: 3 minutes
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| Organization | Official | Title | Compensation | |||
| Harvard Management Company (Boston) | Jack Meyer | President | $5,745,873 | |||
| Good Companion Broadcasting (York, Pa.) | Meredith Merrick | Vice President | $2,367,526 1 | |||
| Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York | Lorin Maazel | Conductor | $2,283,425 2 | |||
| Northside Hospital (Atlanta) | Sidney Kirschner | Chief Executive Officer | $1,965,680 | |||
| Henry Ford Health System (Detroit) | Gail L. Warden | President | $1,888,362 | |||
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Floyd D. Loop | Chief Executive Officer | $1,682,829 | |||
| Northwestern Memorial Healthcare (Chicago) | Gary A. Mecklenburg | Chief Executive Officer | $1,672,215 | |||
| Henry Medical Center (Stockbridge, Ga.) | Joseph G. Brum | Chief Executive Officer | $1,663,719 | |||
| USC Cardiothoracic Surgeons (Los Angeles) | Vaughn A. Starnes | President | $1,659,543 | |||
| Lifespan (Providence, R.I.) | George Vecchione | President | $1,568,400 | |||
| BJC Health System (St. Louis) | Ronald Milligan | Director | $1,520,975 3 | |||
| Brigham & Womens Hospital (Boston) | Jeffrey Otten | President | $1,497,240 | |||
| UPMC Passavant (Pittsburgh) | Raymond Beck | President | $1,497,214 | |||
| Commonfund (Wilton, Conn.) | Robert Bovinett | President | $1,488,755 | |||
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York) | Harold Varmus | Chief Executive Officer | $1,445,500 | |||
| Continuum Health Partners (New York) | Peter Kelly | President | $1,437,650 | |||
| Advocate Health and Hospitals (Oak Brook, Ill.) | Richard R. Risk | Chief Executive Officer | $1,416,679 | |||
| Deborah Heart & Lung Center (Browns Mills, N.J.) | Lynn B. McGrath | Vice President Medical Affairs | $1,398,520 | |||
| TIAA-CREF Investment Management (New York) | Martin L. Leibowitz | President | $1,380,699 4 | |||
| Providence Health System (Torrance, Calif.) | Henry G. Walker | Chief Executive Officer | $1,380,670 | |||
| University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) | Robert D. Martin | Chief Executive Officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System | $1,351,120 | |||
| Faculty Practice Foundation (Boston) | Richard J. Shemin | President | $1,336,524 | |||
| Hackensack University Medical Center (N.J.) | John Ferguson | Chief Executive Officer | $1,336,352 | |||
| Catholic Health Services of Long Island (Smithtown, N.Y.) | Ronald R. Aldrich | Chief Executive Officer | $1,321,538 | |||
| Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati | Jack Cook | Former President | $1,313,637 | |||
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York) | Gordon J. Davis | President | $1,312,500 | |||
| Chela Financial Resources (San Francisco) | James Westfall | Chief Executive Officer | $1,312,049 | |||
| Montefiore Medical Center (New York) | Spencer Foreman | President | $1,269,962 | |||
| Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York | Anthony L. Watson | Chief Executive Officer | $1,266,317 | |||
| Genesis Affiliated Health Services (Huntington, W.Va.) | J. Thomas Jones | Chief Executive Officer | $1,251,250 | |||
| Allegheny University of the Health Sciences (Pittsburgh) | William J. Scharffenberger | Bankruptcy Trustee | $1,228,000 1 | |||
| Kaleida Health (Buffalo, N.Y.) | John Friedlander | Chief Executive Officer | $1,226,160 | |||
| University of Maryland Medical Systems (Baltimore) | Morton I. Rapoport | Chief Executive Officer | $1,213,504 | |||
| John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington) | Leonard Slatkin | Music Director | $1,196,357 | |||
| Providence Health System-Washington (Seattle) | John P. Lee | Chief Executive Officer | $1,175,803 1 | |||
| Catholic Healthcare West (San Francisco) | Lloyd H. Dean | Chief Executive Officer | $1,160,771 1 | |||
| Catholic Health Initiatives (Denver) | Patricia A. Cahill | Chief Executive Officer | $1,156,083 | |||
| Normative Services (Sheridan, Wyo.) | Ray George Jr. | Chief Administrator | $1,154,375 | |||
| Catholic Healthcare System (New York) | Karl P. Adler | Chief Executive Officer | $1,145,037 3 | |||
| Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio) | Douglas E. Olesen | Chief Executive Officer | $1,129,128 | |||
| Memorial Hermann Healthcare System (Houston) | Dan Wilford | Chief Executive Officer | $1,123,769 | |||
| Vanderbilt University (Nashville) | Harry Jacobson | Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs | $1,104,052 | |||
| Novant Health (Winston-Salem, N.C.) | Paul M. Wiles | President | $1,100,303 | |||
| Saint Vincents Catholic Medical Centers of New York | David J. Campbell | Chief Executive Officer | $1,100,235 | |||
| St. Johns Regional Medicine of the Ozarks (Springfield, Mo.) | Walter Gaska | Director | $1,089,670 | |||
| Northwestern Memorial Foundation (Chicago) | Kathleen G. Murray | Chief Executive Officer | $1,055,447 | |||
| Legacy Health System (Portland, Ore.) | Robert J. Pallan | President | $1,055,004 | |||
| St. Joseph Health System (Orange, Calif.) | Richard Statuto | Chief Executive Officer | $1,043,562 | |||
| Valley Baptist Health System (Harlingen, Tex.) | Ben M. McKibbens | Chief Executive Officer | $1,030,482 | |||
| St. John’s Physicians & Clinics (Springfield, Mo.) | Kelvin Vanosdol | Chairman | $1,014,203 | |||
| Baylor Medical Center (Dallas) | Michael F. O’Keefe | President | $1,008,405 | |||
| NYU Hospitals Center (New York) | Theresa A. Bischoff | President | $1,007,205 1 | |||
| Note: Includes all people listed as officers, directors, and key employees on the organization’s informational tax form. | ||||||