Cindy Cohn (Executive Director of EFF) is a Millionaire, Earned Almost $30,000 Per Month Before Departing While the EFF Lost Money
If only donors knew where most money comes from and where it goes... they'd feed animals instead of paying salaries to already-rich humans
According to the latest IRS records on file, the EFF lost $1,201,175, but that needn't bother Cindy Cohn because she still made close to 30,000 dollars a month, not per year, which means she's already a millionaire. This salary represents a considerable increase, about 50% more than in 2016 (less than a decade earlier). For one reason or another, at the FSF the salary of Zoe Kooyman (Executive Director) nearly doubled in a year (up from $78,268 to $141,630 the following year) despite the FSF losing about a million dollars in two years:
If pay is tied to performance, then it is difficult to make sense of this and criticising those whom you like it sometimes acceptable.
Anyway, back to the EFF: Cohn has cost a lot of money, but did not deliver as much as predecessors did. In recent years the EFF's activism has been weak to say the least. I had to drop it from my RSS feeds. It got so bad that EFF people kept lobbying for Fentanylware (TikTok) and didn't talk about any of the harms.
Well...
Now she's leaving, having accumulated about 2.5 million dollars in salaries in the past decade alone.
EFF is "Big Business". It's funded by "Big Business" [1, 2]. It is fronting for "Big Business".
It wasn't always like that. Cohn is not a techie but a lawyer. According to media reports, John Gilmore brought her to the EFF; she is the one who later pushed him out or participated in that. Gilmore is now in the FSF. █