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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Heavenly Grace Assistant Livin

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 223891982
MD · NTEE L20
FY ending 2023-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Brenda West, Executive Director / CEO ($55,700) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 228 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 69th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Brenda West — reported title “PRESIDENT”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

228 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 228 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$419 total compensation of comparable organizations → $240,217 $55,700
$7,00110th
$18,35325th
$36,474Median
$58,90775th
$80,56890th
$55,700This org · 69th
p10$7,001
p25$18,353
p50$36,474
p75$58,907
p90$80,568
$55,700

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 MD 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
Bvarc Housing RI$165,091 Chief Executive Officer $223,152 $216,577 2025
Jfm No 3 Corp ME$165,623 Ceo $14,253 $14,445 2025
American Housing Preservation Inc OR$165,794 President $77,652 $74,920 2024
Mark Lane Housing Corp CT$164,496 President $10,337 $10,069 2024
Housing Opportunities Team OR$164,319 Secretary $15,525 $15,421 2023
385 Third Avenue Housing Development NY$166,146 Ceo $60,217 $58,202 2023
Hope House Iii Inc MA$166,386 President, Ceo $31,555 $29,460 2024
Minnesota American Indian Chamber Of MN$163,730 Interim Executive Director $44,215 $45,390 2024
Bailey Holt House Housing Development NY$167,092 Member $29,779 $28,783 2023
Tiny Hope Village TX$167,165 Executive Director $52,780 $54,853 2024
Rebuilding Together Pitt County Nc Inc NC$162,896 Executive Director $9,757 $10,204 2025
Fernclif Housing Development Fund NY$162,877 President $58,380 $56,427 2023
Home For A Home CA$167,690 Executive Dir. $77,700 $71,766 2023
Rejuvenate Housing Inc IA$167,696 Executive Dir $12,500 $14,219 2024
Sanders County Community Housing Organization MT$168,172 Exective Director $33,168 $37,145 2024
Robert Street Realty Corp RI$162,161 President/ Ceo $16,653 $17,080 2023
Regional Housing Solutions AR$160,792 Chief Executive Officer $7,580 $8,853 2024
Vernon Street Housing Inc CA$169,826 Ceo $47,732 $44,086 2023
Margaret Bock Housing IA$169,941 Board Member $43,492 $49,475 2024
Green New Deal Housing MN$160,016 Board Chair $9,350 $9,882 2023
St Edmund's Redevelopment Corporation IL$159,519 President $209,061 $213,534 2024
Changing The World Inc PA$171,073 President $23,350 $24,192 2024
Loretto Apartments At O'brien Road NY$171,702 Chairperson $27,907 $26,199 2024
Kennedy Institute Housing Corporation Ii DC$158,663 President And Ceo $14,495 $13,215 2024
Habitat For Humanity Hiawathaland MI$158,496 Executive Director $41,821 $46,172 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to MD 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 MD 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 default69th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)71st
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted88th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted19th

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 (Brenda West) 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 228 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (L20), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $55,700 is reasonable (approximately the 69th 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.