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NY seeks salary, compensation data from nonprofits
MICHAEL GORMLEY, Associated Press
Updated 04:35 p.m., Thursday, August 25, 2011

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state on Thursday began seeking data on salaries at nonprofit social service agencies that receive state funding and tax breaks while some of them are paying six-figure salaries.

The task force of Cuomo administration personnel and legislators wants to evaluate how appropriate the salaries are compared to the agencies' missions and if taxpayers are getting an adequate return.

The task force began sending letters seeking specific data from thousands of nonprofits.

Some nonprofit operators have argued, however, that some six-figure salaries are necessary to attract doctors, effective managers and other professionals to serve often low-income, underserved neighborhoods when they could command much higher wages in the private sector. Nonprofits are created to provide public health care, education, housing and other services often in low-income areas at a lower cost than government could.

Task Force Chairman Benjamin Lawsky said he suspects most of the agencies carrying out health care and other services are fine, but "patches of outliers" pay salaries that may be out of whack.

"There are nonprofits who pay very high compensation and the question is, as they receive state funds, what justifies them having nonprofit status, what good works are they doing, and how much money are they receiving from the state and through tax benefits that are going to their good works and how much is going to their top executives?" Lawsky said........................>>>>..................>>>>................Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/ne.....69.php#ixzz1W8KQItQE

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Reaping Millions in Nonprofit Care for Disabled
By Russ Buettner New York Times  August 2, 2011

Medicaid money created quite a nice life for the Levy brothers from Flatbush, Brooklyn.

The brothers, Philip and Joel, earned close to $1 million a year each as
the two top executives running a Medicaid-financed nonprofit
organization serving the developmentally disabled.

They each had luxury cars paid for with public money. And when their
children went to college, they could pass on the tuition bills to their
nonprofit group.

Philip H. Levy went as far as charging  the organization $50,400 for his
daughter's living expenses one year when she attended graduate school at
New York University. That money paid not for a dorm room, but rather it
helped her buy a co-op apartment in Greenwich Village.

The rise of the Levy brothers, from scruffy bearded social workers in
the 1970s to millionaires with homes in the Hamptons, Sutton Place and
Palm Beach Gardens, reveals much about New York's system for caring for
the developmentally disabled - those with conditions like cerebral palsy...

Article continues at  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08.....-oversight.html?_r=1

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I think Ellis Hospital should be looked at.  They do a $63 million expansion including a new facility in Clifton Park but the hospitals in Schenectady are laying off staff left and right.