Diving into the Data: Issues Specific to the Chief Executive Officer
Continuing our blog post series about the 2015 Grantmakers Salary and Benefits Report (GSB), this week let’s take a look at the third chapter, “Issues Specific to the Chief Executive Officer.”
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What You’ll Find
Chapter three focuses on questions that are unique or specific to chief executives, and can be a valuable resource both to foundations that are hiring new leaders as well as to those institutions with more tenured executives. The first half of the chapter is dedicated to foundation chief executive officers (CEOs) and covers topics such as:
- Total cash compensation
- Bonuses
- Deferred compensation
- CEO-exclusive benefits
- Discretionary grantmaking
- Written formal contracts or letters of agreement
The second half of the chapter provides much of this same data, but specifically for chief giving officers (CGOs) of corporate grantmakers. It also includes information about:
- Job titles
- Who CGOs report to
- Division where corporate giving programs are located
- Additional program activities, and non-program related duties within the corporation for which CGOs are responsible
You will find additional benchmarking data on CEOs in chapters 2 and 6 that will complement the figures in this chapter.
How to Use
As we’ve done throughout the report, most of the tables in chapter 3 show data broken down by grantmaker type, asset group, and census region. We also provide breakdowns in this chapter by staff size of the organization. These breakdowns will allow you to benchmark your organization’s practices to those with similar characteristics.
Data of Note
- Almost half of CEO/CGOs were permitted to make discretionary grants in 2014
- Slightly less than half of CGOs had additional duties outside of their foundation and/or corporate giving program.
- One third of CEO/CGOs were offered bonuses in 2014
What's Next?
Come back and visit our blog in two weeks to dive into the next chapter on salary administration.
