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Nation’s top 5 highest-paid fund-raisers are with NYC nonprofits

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Published April 22, 2014, 6:49 a.m. ET
Anne McSweeney is among the one of the top paid fund-raisers in the city, earning $1.2 million last year.
Anne McSweeney is the highest-paid fund-raiser in the country, earning $1.2 million last year. Patrick McMullan

The five highest-paid fund-raisers in the country are all from New York City nonprofit organizations, according to a new report.

The top US rainmaker was Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Anne McSweeney, who received more than $1.2 million for her fund-raising prowess in 2011, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

The second-highest-paid fund-raiser was Susan Fea­gin, who made more than $1 million for her work at Columbia University.

Daniel Forman, vice president of Yeshiva University, received compensation of $922,542, while a second Sloan-Kettering fund-raiser, Richard Naum, made more than $872,000.

Mark Kostegan, senior vice president for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, was paid more than $870,000.

The fund-raisers raked in mountains of cash for their institutions — with Feagin bringing in a staggering $1 billion for her Ivy League school.