Charities are becoming a lot more generous with pay at the top.

The tax-exempt organizations, which include many hospitals and colleges as well as traditional charities such as the United Way, provided seven-figure compensation to roughly 2,700 employees in 2014, an analysis of newly available data shows.

The total is higher by a third than in 2011, The Wall Street Journal found, after analyzing about 100,000 organizations that filed electronic returns with the Internal Revenue Service all four years. READ MORE