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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Women's Education Project

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 223862361
NY · NTEE B82
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Zoe Timms, Executive Director / CEO ($83,000) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 205 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 75th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Zoe Timms — reported title “EXE.DIRECTOR”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

205 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 205 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1 total compensation of comparable organizations → $208,446 $83,000
$7,90210th
$23,77925th
$50,305Median
$83,02575th
$115,60590th
$83,000This org · 75th
p10$7,902
p25$23,779
p50$50,305
p75$83,025
p90$115,605
$83,000

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 NY 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
Always Giving Back Foundation IL$288,776 Director $2,550 $2,856 2023
Blessing Hands Inc KY$288,863 Key Employee $16,029 $18,567 2025
Laradon Foundation Inc CO$288,976 Ceo Thru 4/2 $9,096 $9,404 2025
Society Of Explosives Engineers OH$287,106 Exectutive Director $23,936 $28,056 2024
Impact-u Foundation Inc MA$286,945 Secretary $16,609 $17,005 2023
Hba Of Durham Orange & Chatham NC$286,753 Executive Director $14,925 $17,066 2024
Spanish Scholarship Fund PA$290,289 Treasurer/director $36,000 $38,705 2025
Navy League Foundation VA$290,370 Nlus Ceo $30,248 $32,321 2024
Eagle Foundation PA$290,481 Executive Di $53,988 $61,341 2023
The Hannon Cup Association TX$286,071 Executive Director $28,500 $32,481 2023
Joseph L Wolcott Scholarship Fund OH$292,973 Treasurer $6,563 $7,494 2025
Chicago Association Of Realtors Educational Foundation Inc IL$283,593 Top Mgmt Offical & Car Ceo $40,393 $43,946 2024
St Helena Preschool For All Inc CA$283,013 Executive Dir. $77,400 $76,148 2023
Barnes-jewish St Peters & Progress MO$295,910 Director/president $69,196 $83,501 2023
The Jet Award Foundation & Trust NE$280,216 Executive Di $146,514 $174,391 2024
Dartmouth Dragon Foundation Inc NH$297,223 Exec Directo $96,000 $100,995 2023
American Public Transportation DC$298,069 President And Ceo, Apta $68,023 $68,009 2023
La Crosse Promise Inc WI$278,523 Executive Di $72,000 $81,069 2025
Nevada Hands & Voices NV$278,168 Executive Dir. $62,634 $69,479 2024
Kids Unlimited Inc FL$298,632 President $70,000 $72,773 2024
Wisconsin Credit Union Foundation Inc WI$299,368 Director $44,784 $51,759 2024
Central Insurance Companies Educational OH$276,455 Director $13,287 $16,033 2023
Wisconsin Troopers' Benevolent WI$300,169 Secretary/treasurer $540 $624 2024
Mason Isd Scholarship Foundation TX$300,662 Director $2,320 $2,568 2024
Foundation Of Central Christian College KS$275,099 Ccck President $36,985 $45,523 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to NY 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 NY 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 default75th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)80th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted81st
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted50th

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 (Zoe Timms) 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 205 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (B82), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $83,000 is reasonable (approximately the 75th 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.