Live preview — download the board-ready PDF to attach to your minutes.Download the free PDF
Email yourself a copy:
PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Project Lee Ministries Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 161511903
NY · NTEE X99Z
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Juanita Coplin, Executive Director / CEO ($70,200) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 182 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 72nd percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Juanita Coplin — reported title “PRESIDENT CEO”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

182 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 182 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$975 total compensation of comparable organizations → $180,748 $70,200
$13,80610th
$27,33625th
$49,789Median
$75,08775th
$107,77790th
$70,200This org · 72nd
p10$13,806
p25$27,336
p50$49,789
p75$75,087
p90$107,777
$70,200

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
Alameda Muslim League CA$179,144 Imaam Minister $46,700 $45,944 2023
Assembly Care Ministries Inc NC$179,905 Director $10,000 $11,435 2024
Full Gospel Baltimore Church MD$179,955 Pastor $23,965 $25,527 2023
Unison Harvest International Inc CA$180,657 President $174,296 $171,476 2023
Harbor House Of Rochester Inc NY$181,868 Executive Director $58,226 $59,946 2023
Good News Radio Broadcasting Inc AZ$182,391 President $114,600 $121,968 2024
Cdaide Inc ID$176,553 Executive Dir. $81,580 $93,564 2025
Transformation Prayer Ministry SC$183,294 Director $95,000 $109,678 2024
Camp Presmont Inc OH$174,442 Executive Director $24,833 $29,966 2023
Be The One Ministries AR$184,620 President $22,266 $28,516 2023
Institute For Biblical Counseling & Discipleship LA$184,730 Managing Director $800 $975 2024
His Healing Light Ministries CO$173,266 Founding Director $42,716 $45,328 2024
Anchor House Inc FL$186,398 Executive Director $52,820 $54,912 2024
Isnag Ministries Foundation NC$171,898 President $30,000 $34,304 2024
Common Grace Ministries Inc IN$171,687 Exec Directo $53,655 $64,467 2023
Randydon Ministries MI$187,387 President $98,506 $112,519 2024
Beauty For Ashes Ministries Inc TN$187,796 Executive Director Vice Pres $29,500 $35,329 2023
The Momentum Group ID$188,950 Ceo $43,661 $51,400 2024
North Georgia Interfaith Minis GA$189,684 Exec Director $51,365 $58,843 2023
Mision De Jesucristo Fuente De Salvacion CA$168,982 Minister $26,400 $25,228 2024
Eternal Awakenings TX$168,858 President $6,000 $6,642 2024
The Katz-helen And Ray Whittle Jr GA$168,587 Executive Dir. $26,460 $30,313 2023
Gracepoint Institute NE$168,467 Ceo $56,250 $68,929 2023
Lxi Inc TN$166,895 Executive Di $43,500 $50,601 2024
Vaad Hakashruth Of Kansas City Inc KS$192,474 Executive Director (Term Ended October 2023) $51,223 $63,049 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to NY 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 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 default72nd
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)77th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted74th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted69th

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 (Juanita Coplin) 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 182 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (X99), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $70,200 is reasonable (approximately the 72nd 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.