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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Centennial Education Foundation

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 232946167
PA · NTEE B82
FY ending 2024-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Jennifer Schultz, Executive Director / CEO ($16,154) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 119 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 29th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

119 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 119 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$387 total compensation of comparable organizations → $333,506 $16,154
$6,97910th
$13,24125th
$36,000Median
$61,60475th
$85,25490th
$16,154This org · 29th
p10$6,979
p25$13,241
p50$36,000
p75$61,604
p90$85,254
$16,154

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
Yuda Bands UT$136,783 Secretary $28,500 $29,250 2024
Oregon Education Assoc Foundation OR$138,017 Oea President $33,341 $31,048 2024
Monster Education Foundation Nfp IL$136,651 Executive Director- President $7,200 $7,098 2024
Laborers' Local 300 Scholarship Fund CA$136,560 Chairman/trustee $163,840 $141,869 2024
Baptist Medical Dental Fellowship AL$134,845 Executive Dir. $54,000 $60,228 2023
Police Benevolent Associaton FL$134,541 President $11,611 $11,261 2023
St Ursula Academy Scholarship Granting OH$134,005 President $16,697 $17,734 2024
Educate Lanka Foundation Inc MD$141,292 Executive Director $126,000 $118,125 2024
Olentangy Education Foundation OH$141,530 Executive Di $41,730 $44,321 2024
Entrepreneurs Scholarship Program TX$132,075 Director $375 $387 2023
Namic Mutual Insurance Foundation IN$131,399 Executive Di $41,231 $43,601 2024
Hardrock Hundred Endurance Run CO$143,862 Event Director, Ex Officio $3,000 $2,885 2024
Alpha Educational Foundation-ddl Inc FL$130,244 Executive Director $23,600 $22,232 2024
The Weinreb-berenda-carter Foundation Inc NY$144,674 Secy-treas./director $23,000 $20,841 2024
South Dakota Retailers Association SD$129,954 Executive Di $20,203 $22,359 2024
William Paul Hatfield Scholarship Trust MO$129,818 Trustee $48,615 $51,634 2024
Oregon Turfgrass Foundation OR$129,438 Executive Director $12,991 $12,098 2024
Pennsylvania Pharmacists PA$145,417 Secretary/tr $12,566 $12,937 2023
The Grandville Education Foundation MI$145,647 Exec Directo $15,250 $15,377 2025
National Guard Youth Foundation DC$146,358 President $10,000 $8,573 2025
Stanley Scholarship Funds Inc ND$127,935 President $2,900 $3,191 2024
Mahoning Valley College Access OH$127,712 Executive Director $64,708 $68,726 2024
Misa Foundation VA$127,195 President $63,240 $61,230 2024
Lincoln County Rotary Student NC$147,759 Director $36,846 $38,177 2024
St Louis Association Of Credit IL$126,306 President $24,402 $23,436 2025

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to PA 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 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 default29th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)29th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted65th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted22nd

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 (Jennifer Schultz) 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 119 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (B82), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $16,154 is reasonable (approximately the 29th 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.