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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Vermont Stage Company

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 030342411
VT · NTEE A650
FY ending 2024-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Noah A Blocker-glynn Until 11824, Executive Director / CEO ($60,000) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 320 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 65th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Noah A Blocker-glynn Until 11824 — reported title “EXECUTIVE DI”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

320 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 320 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$689 total compensation of comparable organizations → $137,762 $60,000
$13,44910th
$34,32525th
$51,159Median
$67,30175th
$85,62090th
$60,000This org · 65th
p10$13,449
p25$34,325
p50$51,159
p75$67,301
p90$85,620
$60,000

Comparable organizations

Each figure is Form 990 Part VII columns D + F (reportable pay plus other compensation and benefits; column F may include amounts from related organizations), normalized to VT cost of living (BEA RPP, 2023) and to its filing year (CPI-U); the reported amount is on each linked 990.

OrganizationStateRevenueMatched titleComp
(reported)
Comp
(adjusted)
FY
Halifax Repertory Theatre FL$485,446 President $22,500 $20,459 2025
Salt Pa PA$486,137 Vice President $37,233 $37,979 2023
Six Points Theater MN$483,858 Producing Artistic Dir $83,875 $82,341 2024
Mabou Mines Development Foundation Inc NY$488,018 President $18,120 $16,268 2024
Rome Little Theatre Inc GA$481,871 Executive Director $51,691 $51,638 2024
Great Barrington Public Theater Inc MA$488,819 Development Director $41,250 $36,828 2024
Krymov Lab Inc NY$480,680 Managing Director $26,486 $23,778 2024
Shattered Globe Theatre IL$490,442 Director $75,000 $73,256 2024
Lifeline Productions Inc IL$493,881 Managing Dir. $30,010 $28,556 2025
Fort Hill Performing Arts Center Inc NY$494,348 President $36,067 $32,380 2024
Educational Theatre Company VA$494,757 Managing Director $78,896 $77,919 2023
Theatre 831 CA$494,859 Artistic Director $50,400 $44,516 2023
Tennessee Theater Company TN$495,163 Director $96,000 $100,255 2024
Georgia Ensemble Theatre Company GA$497,310 Producing Artistic Director $38,347 $38,307 2024
One More Productions Inc CA$498,048 President $80,514 $69,073 2024
The Hatch Inc VT$472,296 Executive Director $80,840 $80,840 2024
Solas Nua Inc DC$499,950 President $75,000 $65,388 2024
Augusta Mini Theatre Inc GA$500,509 Executive Direc $31,777 $32,682 2023
Prospect Theater Project CA$500,736 Executive Dir. $29,449 $25,264 2024
The Sacred Fools Theater CA$501,859 Managing Director $27,500 $23,592 2024
Siudy Flamenco Dance Theatre Inc FL$468,461 Executive Dir. $44,790 $43,039 2023
Plan-b Theatre Company UT$467,893 Managing Dir $53,117 $54,012 2024
Hartbeat Ensemble Inc CT$467,053 Managing Director $59,333 $56,904 2023
The Inheiritance Project Ltd NY$466,527 Executive Dir. $74,750 $67,108 2024
Sweet Jane Productions Inc NY$465,782 President & Chairman $57,077 $52,756 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to VT cost of living and 2024 dollars. Click any organization to verify the figure on ProPublica.

Methodology

Comparable organizations were drawn from electronically filed IRS Form 990 returns and matched on sector (NTEE code), budget (a size-adaptive revenue band that tightens as the organization grows), and geography (same-state first, broadening only when too few peers qualify); every organization within the band forms the peer set. To compare fairly across regions and years, peer compensation is normalized to VT cost of living (BEA Regional Price Parities, 2023) and to the subject's filing year (CPI-U). The figure benchmarked is Form 990 Part VII, Section A, columns D + F — reportable pay plus other compensation, benefits, and deferred amounts (column F may include amounts from related organizations) — with the chief executive matched by role. Related-organization amounts (column E) and institutional trustees are excluded. Full methodology: peerbasis.org/methodology.

Sample, role match & sensitivity

Sensitivity — the subject's percentile under alternative compensation definitions:

BasisSubject percentile
Total compensation (D + F), cost-of-living + inflation adjusted — the PeerBasis default65th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)59th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted67th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted64th

If the percentile moves materially across these definitions, the result is sensitive to methodology choices, and the board should weigh which basis best fits its facts.

Rebuttable presumption of reasonableness · 26 CFR 53.4958-6

Compensation paid by a tax-exempt organization is presumed reasonable — shifting the burden to the IRS — when three requirements are met. This report supplies the comparability data for the second. The board should record the following in its minutes concurrently with its decision:

Draft board minutes — executive compensation

  1. The compensation of the Executive Director / CEO (Noah A Blocker-glynn Until 11824) was approved in advance by [the Board / Compensation Committee], composed of members with no conflict of interest with respect to the arrangement.
  2. Prior to its determination, the authorized body obtained and relied upon appropriate comparability data, namely the PeerBasis Compensation Comparability Determination dated June 9, 2026, comparing compensation against 320 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (A65), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $60,000 is reasonable (approximately the 65th percentile of comparable organizations) and documented the basis for this determination concurrently, on [date], by a vote of [__ for / __ against].

Sources: IRS Form 990 e-file data (apps.irs.gov); IRS Business Master File (NTEE classification). Every figure traces to an original public filing — click any organization above to verify it on ProPublica. PeerBasis is a service of Prismind Analytics; its methodology is published, was commissioned for independent adversarial review, and discloses its own limitations. This report is comparability data to support a board's good-faith determination under IRC 4958; it is not legal or tax advice. Generated by PeerBasis on June 9, 2026.