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Compensation Comparability Determination

Columbia River Maritime Museum Endowment

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 208790449
OR · NTEE T30
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Bruce Jones, Executive Director / CEO ($8,156) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 212 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 4th percentile of comparable organizationsbelow the typical range for comparable organizations

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

How comparable organizations were selected

212 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 212 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$466 total compensation of comparable organizations → $366,304 $8,156
$17,96010th
$39,02025th
$76,405Median
$114,40775th
$179,79790th
$8,156This org · 4th
p10$17,960
p25$39,020
p50$76,405
p75$114,407
p90$179,797
$8,156

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 OR 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
Wayzata Sailing Foundation MN$712,379 Executive Director $81,800 $87,037 2024
The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc KY$713,578 Executive Di $129,338 $145,775 2025
Tsc Alliance Endowment Fund Inc MD$709,763 President & Ceo $32,143 $32,359 2024
Purposity Foundation Inc GA$716,033 President & Ceo $80,000 $86,618 2024
Philanthropy For Active Civic Engagement DC$716,946 Executive Director $192,880 $187,645 2023
🔒 207 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 OR 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 OR 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 default4th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)5th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted0th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted71st

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.