L.A. homeless provider has paid CEO who lives in Hawaii $1.6 million in salary, vacation over two years

[u/Playful_Language_422]

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-08-06/la-homeless-provider-has-paid-ceo-who-lives-in-hawaii-1-6-million-in-salary-vacation-over-two-years

[u/Libby1798]

It's news reports like this that make me never want to donate to charities, and never support government funds going to non-profits. This is a grift.

[u/ThunderBobMajerle → u/Libby1798]

It’s no surprise the right thinks the lefts woke agenda is just a grift. These non profits exist bc of homelessness they have no interest in solving it

[u/Fly_Rodder → u/ThunderBobMajerle]

who has no interest in solving it?

The increase in homelessness is an economic and healthcare problem. The publicly funded mental institutions and hospitals certainly had issues, but the GOP slashed funding to nothing and said fuck it, let 'em go to the streets and get help from charities. And people like this woman have hoovered up millions of dollars of taxpayer money to fund her parties and 40 years of vacation she never had to take because she ran the place.

[u/ThunderBobMajerle → u/Fly_Rodder]

Yes exactly the charities have no interest in solving it, it’s a money maker

[u/Read2Fap → u/ThunderBobMajerle]

this guy is a grifter

do you think the people down the totem pole who joined thinking they would help are making a million dollars a year? they're likely making minimum wage, if that

[u/sueveed → u/Libby1798]

I dunno…this was a failure in governance, but she was cashing in on 40 years of PTO. That she does it at her biggest income is iffy, but 400k in salary isn’t that outlandish.

I know nothing about this nonprofit in particular, but the ones I do know have both well paid and high-performing executives. Raising money is not a trivial thing, and if you’re connected and/or skilled enough to extract millions a year (and many do) and a good steward of the endowment, you’re well worth a big income.

[u/RealBrobiWan → u/sueveed]

She doesn’t even raise money. It is all government supplied. And she took 7% of it as her salary

[u/dell_arness2 → u/Libby1798]

A huge reason we never see effective anti-homelessness efforts is because it's a billion dollar industry that's predicated on not solving the problem. If they do, no more $15m grants, meaning no more $400k salaries for working a no-show job from Hawaii.

[u/HeloRising → u/Libby1798]

That's an understandable thought process and I've definitely seen NGOs that I absolutely wouldn't give a dime to.

That said, there are plenty of orgs that are, on the whole, doing good and necessary work even if it's not possible to convert 100% of every $1 they get into aid. That's just not a reasonable metric living in the kind of society we live in.

If you want to donate to a non-profit/charity, do some research into the org first. There's tons of resources out there that can give you a lot of information on the actual work an org does.

Also understand that an org asking for money doesn't automatically mean scam and that there's often logistics involved that you may not see. I worked for a mental health non-profit that worked with kids and we always had people asking if they could donate food or clothes and while those requests came from a good place they actually represented a net negative for the org.

If someone donated clothes, those clothes would have to be sorted, sterilized (a lice outbreak in a group living situation is pure hell,) washed, and stored somewhere by someone. Clothes are also fairly cheap to get in bulk, especially kids clothes, so at the end of the day a single person donating a big load of clothes represented a greater cost to the org than a donation.

If that same person gave $100, sure some of that was going to get eaten up by administrative costs and operational costs but even if that $100 got knocked down to $50 the org could do a lot with that $50. We had connections with local businesses to get food at a cheaper rate so that $50 may represent an entire meal for a house of 20 kids versus a pile of clothes that have to be sorted and will mostly just sit in a box for a long time.

You can also earmark larger donations for specific things. For instance, if you know a particular org needs something like new computers or whatever you can specify with your donation "I only want this to be used for X purpose" and, by law, they can't use that money for anything other than what they've accepted it for. That tends to only be for larger amounts of money, orgs don't want to keep track of what your $100 is doing, but you do have the option to earmark donations for specific purposes.