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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Safe Harbor A Children's Justice Center

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 113709321
WY · NTEE I72
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Lynn Huylar, Executive Director / CEO ($48,591) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 58 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 24th percentile of comparable organizationsbelow the typical range for comparable organizations

Benchmarked executive: Lynn Huylar — reported title “EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

58 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 58 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$2,648 total compensation of comparable organizations → $107,044 $48,591
$34,06110th
$49,60825th
$58,354Median
$69,92275th
$81,72990th
$48,591This org · 24th
p10$34,061
p25$49,608
p50$58,354
p75$69,922
p90$81,729
$48,591

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 WY 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
Family Nurturing Center Of Florida FL$259,042 Executive Di $87,307 $78,857 2023
Windham County Safe Place Child Advocacy VT$259,817 Executive Director And Int $76,927 $72,308 2024
Hero House The Childrens Advocacy GA$248,817 Executive Direc $65,030 $61,062 2024
First Judicial District Casa-gal Program MT$248,664 Executive Director $54,683 $55,047 2024
Family & Children's Council IA$247,648 Executive Director $78,000 $82,113 2023
Sarah's Friends Inc OH$241,243 Executive Di $51,010 $51,945 2023
Patchworks House Inc OH$236,972 Executive Di $50,000 $49,455 2024
North Star Family Advocacy Center MN$279,355 Executive Dir. $106,000 $97,813 2024
Child Assault Prevention Project Of Washoe County NV$280,285 Executive Director $65,000 $59,277 2025
The Vermont Children's Alliance VT$232,894 Executive Director $65,944 $61,985 2024
Warren Washington Care Center NY$232,516 Executive Dir. $57,081 $48,169 2024
Front Range Casa Gal Inc MT$230,891 Executive Director $69,351 $69,812 2024
African Institute For Children Studies AZ$285,614 Executive Director $72,813 $63,709 2025
Prevent Child Abuse Oregon OR$285,797 Executive Dir. $95,708 $83,002 2024
Casa Of Hill County Texas TX$225,648 Exec Dir 6.2 $36,300 $34,911 2023
Connecticut Center For Nonviolence CT$223,380 Executive Dir. $69,998 $63,101 2023
The Blue Ribbon Project MD$291,188 Presidednt&director $25,622 $23,031 2023
Heartland Casa NE$222,415 Executive Di $47,000 $45,992 2025
Childrens Advocacy Center Of Guernsey County OH$222,174 Director $50,130 $51,049 2023
Bennington County Association Against VT$221,558 Executive Dir. $59,660 $54,632 2025
Casa Of Houston County Inc GA$218,780 Executive Di $79,590 $76,941 2023
Over The Rainbow PA$297,345 Executive Director $75,304 $70,129 2024
Edu4life AZ$300,636 Chief Executive Officer $65,943 $59,225 2024
Unsilenced Project Inc CA$302,540 President $38,640 $32,079 2023
Bold Solutions WA$210,452 Director $41,387 $37,086 2022

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to WY 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 WY 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 default24th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)21st
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted21st
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted22nd

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 (Lynn Huylar) 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 58 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (I72), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $48,591 is reasonable (approximately the 24th 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.