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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Focus Press Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 203857449
TN · NTEE A33
FY ending 2023-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Will Harrub, Executive Director / CEO ($28,000) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 50 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 28th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Will Harrub — reported title “EMPLOYEE”, selected as the organization's highest-paid individual — no exact title match, so confirm this is a comparable role.

How comparable organizations were selected

50 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 50 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1,400 total compensation of comparable organizations → $171,586 $28,000
$11,56010th
$26,13425th
$50,751Median
$73,19675th
$93,98990th
$28,000This org · 28th
p10$11,560
p25$26,134
p50$50,751
p75$73,196
p90$93,989
$28,000

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 TN 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
Anyone Corporation NY$239,192 Vp & Treasurer $30,000 $25,050 2024
Rain Taxi Inc MN$238,044 Executive Director $45,958 $43,202 2023
Republic Of Letters WA$236,809 President, Publisher, Editor $67,750 $56,050 2024
Evangelical Press Association Inc AZ$235,359 Executive Director $83,936 $72,670 2025
The Land Cle OH$234,577 Executive Director $79,000 $77,319 2024
Bibliographical Society Of America NY$254,548 Executive Director $84,584 $70,628 2024
The Observer IN$227,989 Editor-in-chief $5,396 $5,414 2023
The Massachusetts Review Inc MA$262,636 Managing Editor $36,864 $31,515 2023
Reconciliation An Intl Network Of Churches And PA$262,893 President $12,500 $11,518 2024
Gospel Tract Society Inc MO$263,217 President $49,879 $50,259 2023
Dzanc Books Inc MI$217,668 Editor-in-chief $50,000 $49,098 2023
Sustainability Institute Inc VT$216,115 Co-director $87,245 $83,542 2023
Oklahoma Media Center Inc OK$272,439 Executive Dir $94,344 $95,996 2024
Inlandia Institute Inc CA$213,419 Executive Director $64,220 $51,243 2024
Superstars Writing CO$212,953 Member $24,570 $22,413 2023
Targum Publishing Company NJ$209,199 Editor In Chief - Member $10,226 $8,437 2024
American Heritage Education Foundation Inc TX$278,273 President $64,011 $57,643 2025
The Denver Homeless Voice CO$201,906 Executive Director $56,375 $51,427 2023
Bellevue Literary Review Inc NY$284,941 Executive Dir. $39,600 $33,066 2024
Fellowship For Intentional Community Inc MO$200,800 Manager $19,462 $19,048 2024
Dignity Usa Inc MA$288,091 Executive Di $112,921 $93,766 2024
Ashland News OR$295,181 Executive Editor $54,600 $48,238 2023
Latin American Perspectives Inc CA$190,599 Vice President $19,875 $15,859 2024
Spectator Publishing Company Inc NY$296,078 Editor In Chief $4,250 $3,549 2024
The Io Foundation WI$296,207 Secretary/ed $90,687 $85,262 2025

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to TN cost of living and 2023 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 TN 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 default28th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)24th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted28th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted28th

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 (Will Harrub) 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 50 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (A33), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $28,000 is reasonable (approximately the 28th 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.