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Compensation Comparability Determination

Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 237395681
NY · NTEE R20Z
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Kevin Jennings, Executive Director / CEO ($831,602) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 14 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 86th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

14 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 14 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$236,133 total compensation of comparable organizations → $921,757 $831,602
$247,37210th
$274,78325th
$402,673Median
$734,22675th
$852,35590th
$831,602This org · 86th
p10$247,372
p25$274,783
p50$402,673
p75$734,226
p90$852,355
$831,602

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
The Voter Participation Center DC$57,968,925 President & Ceo $274,540 $266,611 2024
Naacp Empowerment Programs Inc MD$60,637,077 President And Ceo $890,918 $921,757 2024
Center For Disability Rights Inc NY$56,069,244 President/ceo $254,861 $254,861 2024
Individual Advocacy Group Inc IL$61,623,448 Ceo/executive Director $276,167 $300,461 2024
Institute For Justice VA$55,276,320 President And Chief Counsel $859,654 $894,880 2025
🔒 9 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 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 default86th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)86th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted86th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted86th

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 9, 2026.