See who is making the most money at Greater Washington's nonprofits

Just because we're talking about nonprofit organizations, doesn't mean some executives aren't bringing home some pretty paychecks.

While producing our annual List of the 25 highest-paid executives at Greater Washington’s 501(c)(3) organizations this year, I wanted to delve deeper into nonprofit pay.

So, I pored through the 990 tax forms of every organization on all three of our nonprofit Lists — including the 50 largest, the 25 largest that are regionally focused, along with the 25 highest-paid executives. I put together a database that included the highest-paid person at each of those organizations (excluding only those with either no 990 filed or zero paid employees). This resulted in a list of 80 people.

Here are some quick facts about the 80 men and women who were the highest paid person at their organizations:

30 percent of them are women.

The average compensation of those women was $453,456.

Two-thirds of the women work in a District-based organization, while a fifth work in Virginia and about 12 percent in Maryland.

The average revenue of the organizations employing these highest-paid women was $276.9 million.

The highest-paid woman is Paula Kerger, president and CEO of Public Broadcasting Service, who made $962,594 in the organization's most recently filed Form 990.

The largest organization with a highest-paid woman was American National Red Cross, which made more than $2.7 billion in revenue, and paid President and CEO Gail McGovern a total compensation of $556,772.

Among the 70 percent of this list who are men, the average compensation was$813,237.

Nearly half of the men work in District-based organizations, about 38 percent in Virginia and another 12 percent in Maryland.

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