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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Soteni Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 200041518
OH · NTEE P99
FY ending 2025-03-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Dr Pooja Rachewad Md, Executive Director / CEO ($44,769) 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 41st percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Dr Pooja Rachewad Md — reported title “Operations Manager”, selected as the organization's highest-paid individual — no exact title match, so confirm this is a comparable 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

$766 total compensation of comparable organizations → $535,666 $44,769
$11,81410th
$28,45725th
$56,007Median
$74,16675th
$93,91390th
$44,769This org · 41st
p10$11,814
p25$28,457
p50$56,007
p75$74,166
p90$93,913
$44,769

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 OH 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
Senior Charity Care Foundation UT$284,718 Executive Di $22,965 $22,779 2024
Birth Companions Community Center CA$281,781 Director $21,600 $18,076 2024
The Ohio Legislative Black Caucus Foundation OH$281,386 President And Ceo $94,700 $97,206 2024
Moving Waters TX$280,705 Exec Directo $42,969 $41,656 2024
Pohaku Pelemaka HI$280,366 Executive Di $84,728 $73,516 2024
Nuestra Alianza De Willits CA$277,613 Exec. Director $11,274 $9,713 2023
Loveone OR$276,616 Executive Director $21,287 $19,724 2023
Dry Dock Corporation CA$290,465 Executive Director And Treasurer $59,700 $51,436 2023
Aging Together Corporation VA$275,643 Executive Dir. $90,932 $82,895 2025
Greater Boston Real Estate Board MA$291,834 Ceo $39,071 $35,031 2023
Mountain View Christian Counseling SC$274,984 Director $78,750 $81,971 2023
Wiley Kennedy Foundation SC$274,637 Executive Director $28,975 $30,160 2023
Elder Orphan Care NC$292,680 Executive Director $59,208 $61,041 2023
Thoroughfare Representative Services Incorporated MN$271,711 Executive Director $110,481 $108,923 2023
Destiny Of Hope MO$295,413 Executive Dir. $20,833 $21,384 2024
Crisis Consulting International CA$271,599 President $30,000 $25,847 2023
Edgehill Neighborhood Partnership TN$271,179 Executive Dir. $93,280 $97,830 2023
Connections Ministry Inc LA$296,729 President $78,997 $84,301 2024
Newbirth Outreach Center AL$297,290 Director $15,960 $17,203 2023
Moco Pride Center Inc MD$297,753 Ceo $80,000 $72,484 2024
Project Athena Foundation AZ$267,730 Secretary $26,500 $25,429 2023
Gold Star Peak Inc AK$300,450 President $80,000 $76,312 2023
Improving Healthcare Culture MA$266,237 President $60,000 $53,796 2023
A Loving Choice Adoption Associates NJ$266,226 Executive Dir. $39,000 $33,746 2024
Federation Of Families Of Florida Inc FL$265,746 Executive Director $64,250 $60,223 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to OH 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 OH 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 default41st
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)41st
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted45th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted37th

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 (Dr Pooja Rachewad Md) 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 (P99), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $44,769 is reasonable (approximately the 41st 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.