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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Theatre Lab Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 204610606
NY · NTEE A65
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Orietta Crispino, Executive Director / CEO ($21,000) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 53 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 32nd percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Orietta Crispino — reported title “President”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

53 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 53 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1,030 total compensation of comparable organizations → $99,857 $21,000
$4,96110th
$16,00025th
$40,922Median
$59,49975th
$74,21690th
$21,000This org · 32nd
p10$4,961
p25$16,000
p50$40,922
p75$59,499
p90$74,216
$21,000

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 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
Musical Theatre Factory Inc NY$313,462 President $50,000 $51,477 2023
Theater For Personal Growth Inc NY$306,579 Mgr Director/secty $95,500 $95,500 2024
Boundless Theatre Company Inc NY$306,353 Founding Member $16,331 $16,331 2024
Rosendale Theatre Collective Inc NY$302,387 Managing Director $59,499 $59,499 2024
New York City Players Inc NY$296,648 President $2,875 $2,960 2023
Bond Street Theatre Coalition Ltd NY$295,067 Vice Preside $31,200 $31,200 2024
The Paper Bag Players Inc NY$336,631 Executive Di $20,576 $20,576 2024
Pulse Ensemble Theatre Inc NY$278,685 President $6,600 $6,795 2023
Developing Artists Theaters Company Inc NY$344,610 Executive Dir. $74,833 $74,833 2024
Labyrinth Inc NY$346,568 Interim Managing Director $16,000 $16,000 2024
The Movement Theatre Company Inc NY$274,101 President $67,980 $67,980 2024
National Queer Theater NY$273,780 Director $39,748 $40,922 2023
North American Cultural Laboratory NY$347,461 Executive Di $45,013 $45,013 2024
Stageworks On The Hudson Inc NY$272,369 Exec. Artist $32,417 $33,375 2023
Mohawk Valley Center For The Arts Inc NY$269,570 Executive Director $48,567 $47,315 2025
Franklin Stock Company NY$266,791 Ex-officio/ad $50,000 $51,477 2023
The Children's Theatre Company Inc NY$356,467 Executive Artistic Director $4,800 $4,942 2023
New York Neo-futurists NY$358,046 Co-artistic Director $67,734 $69,735 2023
Chinese Theatre Works Inc NY$262,698 Exec Director $32,650 $32,650 2024
Noor Theatre Inc NY$262,003 Treasurer/secretary/executive Director $12,500 $12,500 2024
Soho Think Tank Inc NY$362,005 Member/ad $47,536 $48,940 2023
Co Lab Theater Group Inc NY$369,803 Executive Director Resigned 1/14/24 $89,374 $89,374 2024
Broken Box Mime Theater NY$248,740 Artistic Director $77,258 $79,540 2023
Poetry Society Of New York Inc NY$248,150 Chair, Treasurer & C.e.o. $48,700 $48,700 2024
American Friends Of Chicken Shed Inc NY$374,584 Ceo & President $55,328 $56,962 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 default32nd
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)32nd
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted32nd
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted32nd

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 (Orietta Crispino) 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 53 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (A65) + NY + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $21,000 is reasonable (approximately the 32nd 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.