Franklin Graham takes pay he once gave up. Six years ago, Franklin Graham decided to give up his pay as head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.“I feel that God has called me to this ministry and that calling was never based on compensation,” he wrote then in a memo to the BGEA staff. But since 2. 01. 1, at the urging of the Charlotte- based ministry’s board of directors, Graham has been receiving a salary again. That’s in addition to the more than $6. Samaritan’s Purse, an international relief agency based in Boone. His 2. 01. 3 compensation from Samaritan’s Purse alone made him the highest- paid CEO of any international relief agency based in the U.

S., according to data provided by Guide. Star, the world’s largest source of information on nonprofit organizations. Graham’s total compensation last year from the two charities was more than $8.

BGEA. That total is less than the $1. The board spoke up (in 2. Listen, we think you should be paid,’ And he agreed. He decided to accept it. Graham spokesman Mark De.

Moss. It doesn’t matter that some board members wanted him to get money again. He’s a big boy. He could have said, ‘no.’Pablo Eisenberg, Georgetown University Center for Public & Nonprofit Leadership. Graham, 6. 3, inherited the BGEA from his famous father – Charlotte- born evangelist Billy Graham, now 9. Samaritan’s Purse since 1.

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Both are Christian organizations that evangelize and send rapid response teams – including chaplains – to the scenes of natural disasters or to cities such as Ferguson, Mo., undergoing turmoil. In 2. 00. 9, questions raised by the Observer about Graham’s rising financial compensation during tough economic times prompted the evangelist to announce he would – “for the time being” – give up future contributions to his retirement plans from both BGEA and Samaritan’s Purse. This came after BGEA’s revenues dropped 1. Graham acknowledged to the Observer then that, whatever the explanation, his compensation total “looks terrible” and that “people won’t understand it.” At the time, Graham was clear the suspension of payments to his retirement was temporary, and they could resume “if or when the economic situation improves significantly,” as Graham spokesman Mark De. Moss told the Observer then. Two days later, Graham sent a memo to BGEA employees that he had made another decision.

He said he had asked the BGEA board of directors “to consider that I work for no compensation.” Graham made no mention of a time limit or any other qualifiers. But his decision to give up a salary at BGEA lasted only one year. In 2. 01. 1, he was paid $1. That grew to $1. 09,2.

Graham did decline all contributions to his retirement plan until late in 2. By 2. 01. 4, his retirement, health care and insurance compensation from BGEA accounted for an additional $1. The Observer made repeated requests last week to interview Graham but was told he was not available. Also unavailable for an interview: C. William Pollard, who headed the BGEA board’s compensation committee. Watch Coldplay Live 2012 Mediafire. Graham spokesman De. Moss told the Observer in an email that Graham “never said he would give up his pay forever.

He chose to give up his salary and retirement benefits for a season, in part because of the national economy in 2. De. Moss added that the move to resume paying Graham came in 2. Watch The Little Mermaid 2: Return To The Sea Online Free HD.

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BGEA board of directors’ compensation committee, not from Graham – who chairs the ministry’s board as well as being president and CEO.“The board spoke up (in 2. Listen, we think you should be paid,’” De. Moss said in a follow- up phone interview. And he agreed.”Graham got the same pitch from the board back in 2.

De. Moss said. At the time, De. Moss put it this way to the Observer: “They said to him that the CEO ought to be compensated. But he’s at the point where, ‘Here’s what I’m going to do. I make a comfortable salary at Samaritan’s Purse.’”In 2. Graham’s two salaries, two retirement packages and other payments totaled $1.

Most of that, Graham pointed out at the time, was due to accelerated contributions to his retirement. He’d received no retirement his first five- plus years at Samaritan’s Purse and his first year at BGEA. The boards said they were playing catch- up to satisfy Graham’s goal of working for free when he reaches 7. The economy has since rebounded, there have been no more layoffs at BGEA, and revenues at both charities headed by Graham have been rising every year – at BGEA, from $9. Graham’s 2. 01. 4 compensation from BGEA was about 6.

De. Moss said in an email.$6. Franklin Graham’s total compensation from BGEA in 2.

His compensation (for health care and auto use) in 2. His compensation in 2. Several nonprofit experts, though, said Graham should have stuck with his decision to forgo pay from BGEA.“It gives the appearance that he went back on his word and can’t be trusted,” said Ken Berger, a nonprofit consultant and former CEO of Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits for donors. It’s worrisome. It appears sneaky.”Pablo Eisenberg, a senior fellow at the Georgetown University Center for Public & Nonprofit Leadership, agreed.“It doesn’t matter that some board members wanted him to get money again,” Eisenberg said.

He’s a big boy. He could have said, ‘no.’ ”De. Moss’ reply: “This organization has earned the trust and prayers of those who support it with their financial and prayer support for more than 6. Same issues Nonprofit watchdogs raise questions about the size of Graham’s overall compensation and whether one person should do – and get paid for – two full- time jobs. Those are the same two issues that sparked controversy in 2. It seems impossible for one person to run both organizations. Sandra Miniutti, Charity Navigator(Whether one person could lead both Samaritan’s Purse and the BGEA) would be a fair question if one or both organizations were going backward.

I don’t hear anybody making that argument. Graham spokesman Mark De. Moss. Graham’s pay is “definitely an outlier for the nonprofit sector,” said Sandra Miniutti, Charity Navigator’s chief financial officer.“When you start getting compensation above a half million dollars,” she said, “it’s probably not appropriate for the nonprofit sector.”Plus, leaders of larger international relief groups make less than Graham. Food for the Poor, which has a budget more than twice as large as Samaritan’s Purse, provided CEO Robin Mahfood a 2. Graham received from Samaritan’s Purse alone.

Food for the Poor provides food, housing, clean water, health care and other services in 1. Caribbean and Latin America. Gail Mc. Govern, the CEO of the American Red Cross, had $5. June 2. 01. 4. That was lower than what Graham got from Samaritan’s Purse, even though Red Cross’ budget is about $3 billion – about seven times larger than Samaritan’s Purse’s. De. Moss said both the BGEA and Samaritan’s Purse boards use independent compensation studies when considering Graham’s pay. He said the studies look at executive compensation at organizations of comparable size.

Though Graham was named BGEA board chairman in October 2. CEO – he “does not participate in deliberations about his compensation,” said De. Moss. Three other Graham family members also sit on the 1. BGEA board – Graham’s son Will, his sister Anne Graham Lotz and his cousin Melvin. But De. Moss said none of them are on the board’s compensation committee, which sets pay.

CEO of 2 nonprofits. There’s also the issue that prompted the Observer to look into Graham’s pay in 2.