If you can't plan and see that far ahead, If you don't have enough cash reserves, that you have to resort to cutting pay. You are doing a bad job. It's bad for publicity and workers moral and puts a black eye when needing to hire more in the future...major fail.
If I work for a construction company and the boss is driving a new truck every year, bought a large new house, then work suddenly slows down but he has more bills to pay, and say "hey I need you to take a pay cut."
Nothing was stopping altru from saving ten million dollars by not donating it.