Chance to make an impact, but it requires your career to be sacrificed - Anonymous employee Kauffman Foundation Employee Review

Salary - Pay is not good. I made almost $50k more the moment I left the Foundation. When you benchmark salaries to the average in a conservative metro area, what you get is pay that's below average. I couldn't afford to stay very long when I knew I could make a lot more elsewhere. Benefits - They would like to think that benefits are great. They are not--just average. The holiday break is great and retirement matching is very good, but the rest are average or below average. Leadership - I had a number of bad bosses while at the Foundation, including one that was openly abusive to me and others. Many team members including some leaders made reports to HR that went ignored, exit interviews were ignored. There was no leadership accountability for years. Now there is no team left. Strategy - The Foundation has an inability to see a strategy through. Leadership is constantly "pivoting", undergoing a "strategy change", or a "reorg" every couple of years, so no plans are ever finished. This is so destructive to grantees that depend on Kauffman funding and are constantly having to navigate strategy whiplash.