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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Chenango Valley Nursery Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 150612135
NY · NTEE B21Z
FY ending 2025-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Robin Stolarcyk, Executive Director / CEO ($49,509) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 288 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 47th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Robin Stolarcyk — reported title “Executive Dir.”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

288 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 288 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$393 total compensation of comparable organizations → $170,443 $49,509
$18,33410th
$38,17125th
$51,915Median
$67,43975th
$85,28390th
$49,509This org · 47th
p10$18,334
p25$38,171
p50$51,915
p75$67,439
p90$85,283
$49,509

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 NY 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
Sunshine And Rainbows Early TX$336,330 Director $35,770 $39,597 2025
Berkeley Hills Parents Association CA$340,360 Exec. Direct $77,439 $75,958 2024
Creative Play Children's Learning FL$341,063 Director $49,252 $54,110 2023
Kidz R Us Too IA$334,845 Secretarydirector $50,700 $63,059 2024
Mid-mitten Montessori MI$333,251 Ex Officio $44,444 $52,109 2024
Miss Ruby's Kids SC$332,288 Executive Director $72,397 $83,583 2025
Cisco Center Foundation Inc MD$344,268 Ex Officio A $31,500 $33,452 2024
Fallston Country Pre-kindergar MD$344,539 Teacher $46,295 $47,898 2025
Little Disciples Learning Center OH$331,624 Director/pre $77,780 $93,579 2024
St Thomas Day School Inc GA$331,192 Director $35,271 $39,247 2025
Kaleidoscope School WA$346,306 President/treasury $63,064 $62,483 2025
East End Preschool TX$330,142 Director $44,520 $49,283 2025
Rockport Christian Service Inc TX$346,774 Director $54,365 $63,599 2023
Dayspring Childrens Center OH$329,522 President $84,600 $99,161 2025
Growing Tree Inc TN$347,057 Director $46,760 $55,832 2024
Gazelle Creative Learning School CA$329,372 President $102,550 $100,589 2024
School Of The Beartooths MT$328,664 Executive Director $52,082 $65,656 2023
Suburban Nursery School Inc MD$328,391 Teacher $36,658 $40,080 2023
Children's Rocky Mountain School Inc CO$328,351 Executive Director $65,341 $71,171 2024
Community Farm School Inc MA$327,842 Clerk $24,576 $25,086 2024
Altadena Nursery School Inc CA$326,868 Director $47,895 $45,768 2025
Scribbles Preschool Inc NJ$349,805 President $47,085 $47,754 2024
Harborlight Nursery School Inc MA$350,619 Executive Director $73,000 $74,515 2024
Community Nursery School Of Wayland MA$350,992 Registrar $44,998 $44,748 2025
Creative Beginning Child Care Center NY$351,556 Executive Director $56,288 $56,288 2025

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to NY cost of living and 2025 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 NY 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 default47th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)55th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted47th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted46th

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 (Robin Stolarcyk) 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 288 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (B21), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $49,509 is reasonable (approximately the 47th 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.