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Highest single salary at organizations with under $1M revenue

“Small Org, Big Check”

Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing. Report an error.

What this counts

The best-paid person at organizations that took in less than $1 million that year.

Exact rule: One row per filing: the person with the largest total pay (as on Highest-paid people) where total revenue was under $1,000,000. Institutions excluded. Filings from organizations reporting at least $10,000,000 in revenue or $50,000,000 in total assets that year (so these are asset-rich organizations with small revenue).

Revenue can be low in a year when investments lost value, and private foundations often pay staff from assets rather than revenue.

Coverage: tax years 2008 to 2025, e-filed returns only. 2,226 rows. Refreshed 2026-10-17. Person matches are tagged Exact when every record on the person's page has the same name, Fuzzy when some were joined across name variants; the tag links to the evidence.

Top row: Bernard Tyson, $35,479,539, tax year 2019 Copy

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