L.A. homeless provider has paid CEO who lives in Hawaii $1.6 million in salary, vacation over two years

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Set us as preferred As public spending on homelessness has come under increasing scrutiny, a nonprofit that runs domestic violence shelters in Southern California has paid its CEO, who lives in Hawaii, more than $1.6 million in salary, vacation pay and other compensation for the last two years of tax filings, a sum that is several times larger than the compensation of executives running similar organizations.In the nonprofit’s 2024 tax form, the latest to be made public, Carol Adelkoff, the chief executive officer of 1736 Family Crisis Center, earned $742,181.Adelkoff earned even more the year before.According to forms filed with the IRS, in 2023 she pocketed $907,923, a payout that included a $495,000 bonus, a number that exceeded her base pay at the time.The next highest-paid employee that year, the nonprofit’s finance director, made $206,000.When asked about her pay, Adelkoff said the unusually high compensation was the result of a payout of unused vacation time that had accrued over the 40 years she has worked at the nonprofit.

She said the kind of work ethic needed to grow an organization such as hers meant it was challenging to take time off.“The salary didn’t jump like that,” said Adelkoff, who was earning a little over $400,000 a year before that number shot up in 2023.She said her base salary over the last several years has remained around $405,000, meaning that the vacation payout totaled roughly $824,000 over two years.

“It was simply a matter of reducing accrued vacation liability on the books and paying it out,” Adelkoff said.A letter sent to The Times from the center’s attorney, Kerry Garvis Wright, said the nonprofit’s board worked with legal counsel and financial experts to find a way to lower the increasing liability, including a vacation payout to Adelkoff before her retirement.The 2024 ta...