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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Rose Hill Foundation Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 161518379
NY · NTEE T70
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of James Button, Executive Director / CEO ($47,523) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 142 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 80th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: James Button — reported title “CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

142 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 142 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$584 total compensation of comparable organizations → $307,709 $47,523
$4,79710th
$10,92025th
$24,638Median
$39,86175th
$82,36590th
$47,523This org · 80th
p10$4,797
p25$10,920
p50$24,638
p75$39,861
p90$82,365
$47,523

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
Taylor Strickland Legacy Foundation GA$51,150 Officer $15,000 $16,691 2024
Woodland Public Charity MO$50,822 Program Manager $12,500 $14,651 2024
Martha O'bryan Foundation Inc TN$50,818 Ceo $20,575 $24,641 2023
George T Swain & Olga C Swain WV$50,444 Director $500 $584 2025
Robert J Levenson Family Supporting MI$50,398 Treasurer $26,189 $29,914 2024
Lawrence C Sherman Family Foundation OH$50,287 Treasurer Thru 6/29/23 $40,331 $48,668 2023
The Miss America Foundation Inc NJ$50,215 Ceo $174,352 $177,359 2023
Nathalie & Theodore Jones Charitable MA$52,285 Trustee $10,643 $10,584 2024
The Howard V Moore Foundation AZ$52,403 Director $10,000 $10,957 2023
The Joseph B Vandervelden Foundation OR$52,502 President $3,000 $3,175 2023
The Emily Program Foundation MN$49,487 Secretary $17,084 $19,233 2023
Downtown South Bend Inc Foundation IN$49,393 Exec Directo $13,631 $15,908 2024
Nathalie & Theodore Jones Charitable MA$49,309 Trustee $9,499 $9,446 2024
Uja-add Foundation Inc NJ$49,052 Charity Class Trustee $1,576 $1,604 2023
Hilliard Family Foundation Inc WI$53,060 Board Secretary $4,819 $5,570 2024
Trust Uw Of William C Goertz NJ$53,273 Trustee $4,800 $4,743 2024
United Way Of Ne Sd Foundation SD$48,801 Executive Director $11,976 $14,627 2024
Maine Better Transportation ME$53,343 Secretary/tr $11,610 $12,865 2024
Hospice Foundation Of Oklahoma OK$53,633 Secretary $25,864 $32,448 2023
United Way Of Rusk County Inc TX$53,642 Cmp Chr/exe Dir $4,810 $5,482 2023
Beech Grove Education Foundation Inc IN$48,063 Executive Dir. (Until 6/2023) $38,000 $45,656 2023
Kids Against Hunger - Your Quad Cities IA$54,173 President / Secetary $18,000 $21,811 2024
The Irene M Auberlin Foundation MI$47,624 President/ceo $26,155 $30,759 2023
Kay Trust Co Twin Lakes Baptist Church CA$54,511 President $116,052 $110,899 2024
Sts Philip And James Grade School OH$54,606 Trustee, Principal $11,166 $13,088 2024

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 default80th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)82nd
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted0th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted86th

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 (James Button) 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 142 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (T), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $47,523 is reasonable (approximately the 80th 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.