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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Off The Wall Productions

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 208889020
PA · NTEE A65
FY ending 2023-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Viginia Gruenert, Executive Director / CEO ($5,627) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 176 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 13th percentile of comparable organizationsbelow the typical range for comparable organizations

Benchmarked executive: Viginia Gruenert — reported title “EXECUTIVE AR”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

176 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 176 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$793 total compensation of comparable organizations → $109,337 $5,627
$4,34610th
$11,59825th
$27,531Median
$43,04875th
$55,36290th
$5,627This org · 13th
p10$4,346
p25$11,598
p50$27,531
p75$43,048
p90$55,362
$5,627

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 PA 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
Crearte Latino Cultural Center Corp FL$188,130 Director $60,000 $54,901 2024
Friends Of Hart Inc OR$187,904 President $15,250 $13,439 2025
North Canton Playhouse OH$189,127 Executive Director $27,490 $28,359 2024
Rubber City Shakespeare Company OH$190,570 Ex-officio $11,843 $12,217 2024
Margret And Ha Rey Center Inc NH$190,958 Director $56,160 $50,508 2024
Origin Theatre Company Inc NY$184,758 Artistic Dir $67,500 $61,164 2023
Uptown Theater For Creative Arts Inc NY$192,481 Executive Director $16,375 $14,838 2023
Running To Places Theatre Company Ltd NY$194,342 Resident Director $31,552 $27,770 2024
Bricolage PA$194,428 Principal Creative & Co-fo $58,112 $58,112 2023
Alton Little Theater Incorporated IL$194,676 Executive Director $36,050 $34,520 2024
Bandit Theater WA$195,227 Executiveartistic Director $57,991 $52,064 2023
Enlightened Theatrics OR$195,716 Executive Director $65,000 $60,530 2023
Heartwood Regional Theater Company ME$181,076 Executive Director $55,000 $52,259 2025
Lakewood Community Players WA$196,531 Producing Artistic Director $4,928 $4,298 2024
Jion Academy CA$180,108 President $9,900 $8,326 2024
State Theatre Company TX$179,853 Secretary/ceo $9,664 $9,416 2024
Fort Totten Little Theater Company ND$198,130 President $1,500 $1,651 2023
Lynnville Area Arts Association Inc TN$198,597 Executive Director $16,900 $17,814 2023
Orange Park Community Theatre Inc FL$178,121 President $900 $823 2024
What A Do Theatre MI$198,941 Executive Di $53,109 $52,017 2025
Iron Crow Theatre Company Inc MD$177,985 Director $3,620 $3,212 2025
Classical Theatre Company TX$199,643 Executive Artistic Director, Treasurer $35,000 $33,222 2025
Delaware Children's Theatre Ltd DE$199,891 Vice President $30,000 $29,456 2023
Dunes Art Foundation Inc IN$176,991 Managing Dir $2,000 $2,055 2024
The Nola Project Inc LA$176,949 Executive Director $8,177 $8,769 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to PA 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 PA 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 default13th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)13th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted14th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted13th

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 (Viginia Gruenert) 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 176 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (A65), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $5,627 is reasonable (approximately the 13th 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.