BINGO!!! My wife and I spend a great deal of our time volunteering for legitimate organizations like the USO, etc. At least half and probably a significantly larger percentage of the people and organizations claiming to raise money for “wounded veterans” are not legit. Even some of the “legit” organizations pay their lead people ridiculously large sums of money... hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in many cases.
This is of course not that unusual, many “charities” pay their CEOs exorbitant amounts of money. Take St. Jude Medical Center, during years when we could barely make our house payment my wife was contributing thousands of dollars to them.
Daniel Starks CEO
St. Jude Medical (NYSE: STJ)
Total pay
2012: $6.72 million, up 2 percent
2011: $6.57 million
2010: $9.44 million
John Heinmiller, executive vice president: $4.56 million, up 11 percent
Michael Rousseau, group president: $4.53 million, up 12 percent
Denis Gestin, president, International Division: $3.06 million, up 4 percent
Donald Zurbay, vice president, finance and chief executive officer: $1.69 million (He was not listed as an executive officer in previous years)
And St. Jude is considered to be totally legit with even Donald Trump’s son being a major fund raiser. Many of the groups claiming to raise money for veterans are more questionable. One should always do their homework before giving money to charities.
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2013/03/05/ceo-pay-st-jude-starks.html
Take a closer look at the webpage you posted from.... St. Jude Medical is a "global medical device company headquartered in Little Canada, Minnesota." (from Wikipedia) It has no affiliation with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.