A CEO of a non-profit in Los Angeles receives a 1.6 million dollar annual salary and lives in Hawaii.
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The Dan Bongino ShowOct 16, 2026
The sources support that the CEO of a Los Angeles-based nonprofit (1736 Family Crisis Center, Carol Adelkoff) lived in Hawaii, but the $1.6 million figure is her total compensation over two years (2023-2024), not an annual salary.
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What was said
… That's, that is what it is. That's where the money's going. What does that mean? There's two components to it. The first is a network of politically connected non-profits. Uhm, non-profit sounds very nice. These are, these have become massive enterprises. One non-profit leader in Los Angeles, CEO of a non-profit getting millions of dollars in homelessness funding, she's paid 1.6 million dollars a year salary and lives in Hawaii. That's what we're dealing with here. And the money that these non-profits get goes, is all directed into programs based on two ideologies. One is called harm reduction, and the other is housing first, and they're connected. …
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Contradicts. The reported figures show annual totals of $907,923 in 2023 and $742,181 in 2024, with a base salary of about $405,000, so the claim's '$1.6 million annual salary' overstates the annual figure.[2][3][4]
Supports. Carol Adelkoff, CEO of the Los Angeles-based 1736 Family Crisis Center, lived primarily in Hawaii, which matches the claim's residence element.[1][3][5]
Supports. The nonprofit paid Adelkoff more than $1.6 million in total compensation over two years, which matches the claim's dollar figure only as a two-year total.[1][2]
Context. Adelkoff attributed much of the two-year total to a payout for accrued unused vacation time, not to salary, so the $1.6 million is not a salary figure.[2][3][4]
Sources
5 sources: 1 primary, 4 not rated
- 1Burchett Investigates Fraud-Plagued Los Angeles ...oversight.house.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 2L.A. homeless nonprofit paid CEO $1.6M over 2 years: reportktla.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports, context
- 3California homeless non-profit has paid its Hawaii-living CEO $1.6 million salary the last two years: reportthe-independent.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports, context
- 4L.A. Crisis Nonprofit Paid CEO $1.6M Over Two Yearslamag.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, context
- 5L.A. nonprofit rented luxury Santa Monica apartment, BMW ...latimes.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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