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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Ancestral Knowledge Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 200118546
MD · NTEE O30
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Bill Kaczor, Executive Director / CEO ($69,500) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 584 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: Bill Kaczor — reported title “Executor Director”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

584 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 584 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$19 total compensation of comparable organizations → $173,346 $69,500
$9,97110th
$25,85425th
$49,760Median
$71,97275th
$91,48390th
$69,500This org · 72nd
p10$9,971
p25$25,854
p50$49,760
p75$71,972
p90$91,483
$69,500

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 MD 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
Elevate Your G A M E CA$200,362 Exec Director/secretary $67,127 $62,000 2024
Child Evangelism Fellowship Inc Of Schuylkill County PA$200,490 Director $42,310 $46,464 2023
Penn Hawaii Youth Foundation HI$200,041 President $20 $19 2024
Holly Area Community Coalition MI$200,022 Director $54,923 $60,637 2024
Free All Minds NJ$200,611 President $40,246 $38,435 2024
Hana Youth Center HI$199,970 Exec Dir $52,154 $51,420 2023
Child Wellness Institute Inc NJ$199,940 Executive Director $24,603 $23,496 2024
Team Long Run ME$199,912 Executive Dir. $56,500 $60,515 2024
Kinston Teens Inc NC$200,814 Chief Executive Officer $55,000 $62,582 2023
Mid-il Big Brothers Big Sisters IL$199,618 Executive Di $40,860 $44,236 2023
Photo Start NY$199,295 Founding Director $46,500 $46,271 2023
The Connection Fund Realty Inc CT$199,188 Ceo $25,203 $26,022 2023
Youth Excited About Sports MO$199,154 Executive Di $70,167 $79,492 2024
The Shepherds Door GA$201,446 Pastor $61,275 $65,901 2024
Girls On The Run Of Sedgwick County KS$201,716 Executive Director $64,420 $74,441 2024
Game Devs Of Color Inc NY$198,781 Executive Director $21,250 $21,146 2023
First Priority Greater Nashville TN$201,874 Executive Director $51,966 $60,152 2023
Oak Ridge Outdoor Foundation IL$198,584 Manager $19,500 $21,111 2023
Legacy Sports Training TX$202,305 Executive Director $131,402 $140,595 2024
E-town Area Youth Alliance PA$202,331 Executive Di $74,880 $77,813 2025
Arkansas Advanced Energy AR$202,462 Executive Di $90,606 $108,937 2024
My Architecture Workshops Inc CT$202,787 President $10,000 $10,029 2024
Black Surf Santa Cruz Inc CA$202,836 President $85,067 $80,891 2023
The Lovelife Foundation CA$202,869 Director/chairman $21,276 $20,231 2023
Child Evangelism Fellowship Of Nh Inc NH$203,030 Secretary $32,234 $32,776 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to MD 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 MD 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), adjusted73rd
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 (Bill Kaczor) 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 584 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (O), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $69,500 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.