The person listed as our CEO is no longer on staff. How do I input the new CEOs information?
At Charity Navigator we report the CEO for each organization according to what it provided in its most recently filed 990, even when that organization’s CEO has changed in subsequent months. We only change the CEO information posted on our site when we obtain a new 990. Why? We are trying to provide an objective resource that allows donors to compare charities, including CEO pay. Such comparisons are only possible when information is consistently reported and consistently identified as to from where it came. We report, for example, an organization’s income statement according to its most recent 990, not according to current information. Similarly, we want the giver to know where the figure for the CEO’s pay came from and for what period of time it covered. We believe there’s an implicit connection between a CEO’s compensation and the financial information provided in its income statement–that is to say, they are derived from the same financial circumstances. If we updated CEO informat
