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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Today Ministries

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 261382137
TX · NTEE X20
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Jim Piper, Executive Director / CEO ($143,500) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 137 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 91st percentile of comparable organizationsabove the 90th percentile — board review recommended

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

How comparable organizations were selected

137 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 137 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1,809 total compensation of comparable organizations → $282,000 $143,500
$16,19010th
$36,54025th
$60,832Median
$86,48375th
$129,07190th
$143,500This org · 91st
p10$16,190
p25$36,540
p50$60,832
p75$86,483
p90$129,071
$143,500

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 TX 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
Blast & Cast Mens Ministries TX$332,577 Executive Director $82,485 $84,921 2023
Your Kingdom Come TX$327,800 President $87,525 $87,525 2024
Create Hope TX$325,990 President $34,200 $34,200 2024
Teresia Wairimu Evangelistic Ministry TX$323,950 Revceo $38,763 $38,763 2024
You Are Inc TX$342,215 Ceo $51,563 $50,234 2025
Hamoreh Ministries TX$342,313 President $85,172 $85,172 2024
Christian Campus Center At Uta Inc TX$342,409 President $40,000 $40,000 2024
West Texas Christian Ministries TX$343,180 Secretary/treasurer $13,701 $13,348 2025
Lift Ministries TX$343,442 President $111,161 $111,161 2024
International Breakthrough Ministries Inc TX$343,594 President $155,012 $159,591 2023
Center For Christian Studies TX$345,061 Executive Di $91,572 $91,572 2024
Ghb3 TX$320,827 Vice President $7,667 $7,667 2024
Global Leadership Outreach Development TX$320,610 President $282,000 $282,000 2024
Mosaic Center For Spiritual Formation TX$320,551 Executive Dir. $30,600 $30,600 2024
Grace Assembly Christian Church Of Gatesville Inc TX$320,129 Senior Pastor $1,809 $1,809 2024
Waters Edge Encampment TX$346,830 President $5,503 $5,666 2023
Word Of God Speak TX$348,595 Executive Director $60,000 $60,000 2024
Stronghold Ministry TX$350,024 Executive Director $80,960 $83,351 2023
Moms In The Making TX$315,177 President $63,000 $64,861 2023
Main Street Crossing TX$315,132 Secretary $8,960 $8,960 2024
Frontline Evangelism Inc TX$354,092 Officer $33,000 $33,000 2024
James F Myers Ministries Inc TX$311,732 President $65,000 $65,000 2024
Freedom In Jesus Ministries Inc TX$354,631 President $25,988 $26,756 2023
Practice Ministries Inc TX$311,370 Co-founder $91,616 $94,322 2023
Sparkle Living Inc TX$354,774 President $9,615 $9,899 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to TX 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 TX 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 default91st
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)93rd
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted82nd
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted91st

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 (Jim Piper) 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 137 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (X20) + TX + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $143,500 is reasonable (approximately the 91st 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.