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Compensation Comparability Determination

Connecticut Legal Rights Project Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 223069277
CT · NTEE Z99Z
FY ending 2025-06-30
June 10, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Kathleen Flaherty, Executive Director / CEO ($163,587) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 171 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 78th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Kathleen Flaherty — reported title “EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

171 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 171 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1,153 total compensation of comparable organizations → $453,755 $163,587
$38,85910th
$81,53325th
$113,064Median
$153,16375th
$230,25290th
$163,587This org · 78th
p10$38,859
p25$81,533
p50$113,064
p75$153,163
p90$230,252
$163,587

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 CT 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
Love Inc Of The Treasure Valley ID$1,737,654 Director $78,707 $91,661 2024
The Jan And Niles Davies Learning Center NY$1,746,007 Executive Dir. $76,892 $78,313 2023
3core Inc CA$1,731,568 Executive Director $123,675 $113,900 2025
Agc Of Washington Education Foundation WA$1,731,453 Executive Director $239,970 $235,205 2024
The University Heights Center For The Community Association WA$1,723,463 Executive Director $170,448 $167,064 2024
🔒 166 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 CT cost of living and 2025 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 CT 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 default78th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)80th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted64th
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 10, 2026.