The CEO make $824,000 in salary in 2018.. non-profit my ass.
I have to say that I agree with this sentiment. The CEO of a non-profit organization with a revenue of 52 million dollars should not be compensated with 824.000 dollars.
Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
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Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
#22Not that familiar with Khan Academy, but shouldn't their income also be at 250% normal load?
Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a nonprofit organization. I'm not that educated on the topic but I think that means it's possible to find a breakdown of their expenses somewhere.
You can find their 2018 IRS filing here: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/261... I've never read one before, but it looks like their IT spend was $5m of $49m total expenses on page 10. I think it's very plausible that a sudden unanticipated increase in IT costs could cause a cash crunch.
Thanks for linking to this.
A unique string to find this line item in the linked filing is "Information technology"
This was their second-largest functional expense area for 2018, behind "Other salaries and wages".
Although I'm not an accountant it also seemed noteworthy to me that their "Revenue less expenses" was negative for 2018 (not overwhelmingly in relation to their assets, but still by a sizable amount).
I'm not really qualified to comment on what that means, but naively it does seem to imply to me that they can continue to benefit from donations and external funding.
Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
#24Not that familiar with Khan Academy, but shouldn't their income also be at 250% normal load?
They don't charge anything for the content.
Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
#25Not that familiar with Khan Academy, but shouldn't their income also be at 250% normal load?
they are non-profit
Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
#26Not that familiar with Khan Academy, but shouldn't their income also be at 250% normal load?
It’s primarily a free website.
Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
#27(Replying to a trollish comment, but don't want to push it to the top).
There was a comment about the salary that CEO Sal Khan takes, with is over $800,0000 per year.
I think Khan Academy is fantastic, and was going to donate until I saw this figure (verified). I think that it's entirely inappropriate to extract that much from the donations.
Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
#28Worthy internet causes: Khan Academy, Wikipedia and Electronic Frontier Foundation Any other suggestions?
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Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
#29Not that familiar with Khan Academy, but shouldn't their income also be at 250% normal load?
It's a non-profit educational organization.
Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
#30I’m a bit surprised it’s so little. Our servers are at something like 1000% of normal load. We’re a data visualisation company: naively I would have expected online education to be affected more than us, rather than less.