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Compensation Comparability Determination

Ranchers Stewardship Alliance

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 208422515
MT · NTEE C30
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Angel Devries, Executive Director / CEO ($73,178) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 138 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 25th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

138 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 138 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$16,908 total compensation of comparable organizations → $380,670 $73,178
$52,52510th
$73,18725th
$94,932Median
$121,13075th
$162,08290th
$73,178This org · 25th
p10$52,525
p25$73,187
p50$94,932
p75$121,130
p90$162,082
$73,178

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 MT 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
Headwaters At The Comal TX$1,418,954 Managing Director $31,286 $29,033 2024
Kansas Alliance For Wetlands And Streams KS$1,419,706 Executive Director $55,809 $55,933 2024
Golden Sands Resource Conservation And WI$1,410,268 Executive Director (Thru Beg August) $40,592 $40,489 2023
Swan Valley Connections MT$1,426,064 Co-executive Director $76,963 $76,963 2024
Wisconsin Land And Water Conservation WI$1,402,250 Executive Director $108,194 $104,824 2024
🔒 133 more comparable organizations — included in the purchased report

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to MT 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 MT 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 default25th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)20th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted28th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted23rd

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:

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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.