The latest IRS 990 forms for both the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and its subsidiary nonprofit, the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, were released last week and I’ve gone over them and excerpted revenue and salary information to share with you. You can find the SFAF tax returns at SFAF tax return.
The Pangaea 990 form is available from the agency, if you call them at 415-581-7000.
Frankly, it doesn’t surprise me in the least that executive salaries at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation rose again. The avarice of the people running the foundation knows no limits.
However, what I do find shocking is that the foundation’s Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation pays its director, Dr. Eric Goosby, a former administrator for HIV/AIDS programs under Donna Shalala when she headed the Department of Health and Human Services, a cool quarter of a million dollars. How the executive director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation allowed anyone associated with her two AIDS nonprofits to earn substantially more than her amazes me.
Direct services for people living with HIV and AIDS are facing budget shortfalls, but don’t expect the greedy executives at these two nonprofit foundations to cut back on their excessive salaries because their priorities have always been executives first, patients last.
Keep in mind, as you read these salary levels, that the Wall Street Journal on July 9, 2002, reported that the head of the global AIDS fund, “Dr. [Richard] Feachem also startled some UN officials with his salary package of at least $200,000 a year.”
Imagine how those UN authorities would react if they knew how much the executives of Pat Christen’s two AIDS foundations were making.
I hope I live to see the day when the salaries of AIDS executives are cut and the savings passed along to AIDS patients.
Without further ado, here are the numbers. Read ‘em and weep.
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San Francisco AIDS Foundation
IRS 990 form for FY 2001
Total revenue: $22,677,609
Pat Christen, executive director
$212,033
Lance Henderson, finance director
$174,054
David Taylor, human resources director
$149,588
John Vasconcellos, development director
$136,927
Brian Byrnes, programs director
$125,265
Susan Haikalis, director of client services
$124,012
Subtotal: $921,879
Contributions to employee benefit plans:
$14,959, for each of the six directors.
Subtotal: $89,754
Total: $1,011,633
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Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation
(An affiliate of the SF AIDS Foundation)
IRS 990 form for FY 2001
Total revenue: $5,923,598
Dr. Eric Goosby, chief executive officer
$166,672
Goosby also received payment for program design services, and that amount was:
$83,340
Subtotal for Goosby: $250,012
Barbara Lawson, project director
$143,163
Rene Durazzo, international programs director
$89,124
Deborah Von Zinkernagel, program design
$143,556
Dr. Allen Ronald, program services
$132,500
Dr. Merle Sande, program services
$120,694
Paul Bouey, program design
$83,340
Subtotal: $962,389
Plus, the top three directors each received $17,277 in contributions to employee benefit plans, for a subtotal of: $51,831
Total: $1,014,220
Just remember one thing: when you donate your hard-earned bucks to the SFAF beg-a-thons, through events like the Lifecycle AIDS bike ride to LA that kicks off this weekend, or the AIDS Walk in July in Golden Gate Park, part of your donation is used to pay these high salaries.
SFAF contributors should find other AIDS groups to donate to; ones that pay a decent salary to the top folks, but also deliver more direct services and care to patients.
The waste and avarice at SFAF is shameful, and they deserve all the bad publicity they get. Heck, the SFAF executives need to be taken to task in public about their sky-high salaries, and persuaded to take pay cuts.
BTW, government grants SFAF received in FY 2002 was a total of $5,312,407.
But that figure is not broken down by source; local, state or federal government agency.
You can rest assured that a portion of the $5M-plus amount is from the city's General Fund.
Let me also remind folks that the executive director of SFAF once believed nonprofit sunshine could be deadly, according to a news story.
Tuesday, November 25, 1997
SF Chronicle
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The proposal was prompted by allegations that some AIDS patients have been turned away by nonprofit AIDS health organizations without proper explanation -- and sometimes due to political motivations, according to Jeff Sheehy of the Harvey Milk Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Democratic Club. ``Nonprofits that provide health care on behalf of the city are wearing the city hat, and provide essential services that people need to live,'' said Sheehy, who accused the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Shanti and the San Francisco AIDS health clinic of unfairly terminating clients from AIDS treatment. ``They ought to have to follow the same process of the city.'' But the accusations were swiftly and vehemently denied by representatives of nonprofits, who said Ammiano's proposal would divert both crucial funding and attention away from their first mission -- saving lives. ``The purpose of the foundation is very clear and sweeping -- to end the HIV epidemic and human suffering,'' said Pat Christen, executive director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. ``I do not believe lengthy discussions around the sunshine ordinance will further that mission.'' While public and private institutions must work in partnership, forcing nonprofit groups ``to mimic the government'' would reduce their ability to respond swiftly to events, Christen said. She also said the proposal would force the agencies to take fewer risks in dealing with the public health crisis, and require them to divert funding to deal with bureaucratic responses instead of care. ``That would be literally deadly,'' she said.
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While I am no medical professional, and can't state it with total certainty, I seriously doubt that the San Francisco sunshine ordinance has killed a single client of the SFAF.
Here's Chrisen's listed pay over the years, which includes both salary and payments to her benefit plan.
FY 1994
$134,137
FY 1995
$162,294
FY 1996
$176,742
FY 1997
$197,014
FY 1998
$201,320
FY 1999
$214,390
FY 2000
$221,288
FY 2001
$226,992
Total: $1,534,177
With a salary like that, the nonprofit world has been very profitable for at least one executive director. Avarice is alive and well at Pat Christen's AIDS Foundation.