The tax status of an organization has NOTHING to do with what they decide to pay their employees, so it isn’t even an optics issue as it relates to their tax filing status.
Now, it may be optics for parents who wonder, “why am I paying so much tuition when the President of the college gets paid so much?” But if they also paid $250k (4 year full cost of a college) for a Ferrari, I doubt they would ask why the President of Ferrari gets paid so much.
FYI, the commissioner of the non-profit NFL got $120M in his first seven years.
@gator88ne The Boy Scouts has about 1M members and is the 7th most popular charity/non-profit in America, so if by “crazy salary” you mean that a $391k salary is way too little, then I agree.