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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Maine Association Of Conservation Districts

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 222503739
ME · NTEE C030
FY ending 2023-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Carol Weymouth, Executive Director / CEO ($35,055) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 494 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 30th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Carol Weymouth — reported title “Executive Director (contracted)”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

494 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 494 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$602 total compensation of comparable organizations → $400,561 $35,055
$11,49610th
$30,06925th
$53,849Median
$73,87775th
$97,85190th
$35,055This org · 30th
p10$11,496
p25$30,069
p50$53,849
p75$73,877
p90$97,851
$35,055

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 ME 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
Three Rivers Land Trust ME$214,866 Executive Director, Outgoing $28,719 $28,719 2023
Affta Fisheries Fund MT$215,150 Executive Dir. $70,000 $75,355 2023
People For Urban Progress Inc IN$215,173 Executive Director $52,911 $54,124 2024
I-20 Wildlife Preserve & Jenna Welch TX$214,236 Executive Dir. $59,249 $59,188 2023
Champions Kids Camp Inc TX$215,477 President $41,460 $40,230 2024
Treasure Valley Canopy Network Inc ID$214,161 Executive Director $52,734 $56,023 2023
North Shore Latino Business Center MA$215,700 Clerk $111,122 $96,861 2024
Delray Beach Children's Garden Inc FL$215,927 President $39,996 $37,523 2023
Indiana Land Protection Alliance IN$213,769 Executive Director $77,500 $81,619 2023
Kittitas Environmental Education Network WA$213,581 Environmental Education Director $33,804 $29,357 2024
Nation Ford Land Trust SC$216,144 Director $44,162 $43,538 2025
School Garden Project Of Lane County OR$216,246 Executive Dir. $57,975 $52,224 2024
Heroic Gardens PA$216,500 Executive Dir. $54,150 $52,380 2024
Assoc Of Us Delegates To The Gulf Of ME$216,510 Executive Director & Counc $73,905 $71,785 2024
Outdoor Inclusion Coalition PA$212,979 President & $80,000 $77,386 2024
Philadelphia Community Farm Inc WI$212,883 President $4,548 $4,608 2024
Project O CA$216,852 President & Ceo $54,000 $46,567 2023
Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear MI$216,955 Executive Director $32,000 $32,039 2024
Rail-trail Council Of Northeastern PA$212,660 Executive Director $26,088 $25,236 2024
Friends Of Lake Elmo's MN$217,060 Board Member $2,013 $1,929 2024
Patagonia Area Resource Alliance AZ$217,200 Co Chair And Mission Coordinator $29,466 $28,300 2023
Valley In Motion PA$212,338 President $89,675 $86,745 2024
Bucks Beautiful Inc PA$212,217 Executive Di $40,083 $38,773 2024
Mundo Gardens CA$212,039 President $75,000 $64,676 2023
Restore The Earth Foundation Inc MD$217,709 Executive Director $249,996 $226,714 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to ME 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 ME 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 default30th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)28th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted30th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted27th

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 (Carol Weymouth) 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 494 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (C), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $35,055 is reasonable (approximately the 30th 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.