Rightly or wrongly, the Wounded Warrior Project tends to be loved or hated. Its critics blast its finances on several fronts, claiming, among other things, it excessively compensates its leadership compared to how much money goes back out to help wounded warriors. Using IRS 990s, Brandi Kay at Freedom Outpost recently noted the following numbers for 2013:

Revenue: $234,682,943
Steven Nardizzi, CEO: $375,000

That’s 0.16% of the revenue back to the CEO as compensation.

For comparison, for 2013 Michael “Mikey” Weinstein’s MRFF numbers were 

Revenue: $701,535
Mikey Weinstein, President: $299,634

That’s 42.7% of the MRFF’s donations, or about the same paycheck as the WWP for about 1/300th the revenue. The MRFF also puts almost no money out to actual “clients,” requiring its attorneys to work pro bono and spending most of its money on Weinstein’s salary, a few support personnel, and other non-descript “program services.”

In his self-declared “war” against Christians in the US military, Weinstein actually has the gall to fundraise from “clients” who may make in an entire year what he takes as pay from their donations in a single month.

But WWP is bigger, so it gets more attention.

To be fair, Weinstein was stung by these financial “revelations” in an Air Force Times article last year. But it is notable that people can be bothered by charities whose financials are orders of magnitude less egregious than Mikey Weinstein’s MRFF.

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