Live preview — download the board-ready PDF to attach to your minutes.Download the free PDF
Email yourself a copy:
PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Center For Adaptive Riding

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 262361245
NV · NTEE E50
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Nikki Landa, Executive Director / CEO ($10,500) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 60 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 5th percentile of comparable organizationsbelow the typical range for comparable organizations

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

How comparable organizations were selected

60 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 60 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$264 total compensation of comparable organizations → $128,385 $10,500
$14,40210th
$23,31125th
$53,866Median
$63,04475th
$77,27990th
$10,500This org · 5th
p10$14,402
p25$23,311
p50$53,866
p75$63,044
p90$77,279
$10,500

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 NV 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
Camelot Therapeutic Horsemanship Inc AZ$281,224 President $80,291 $77,035 2024
Genuine Animate Navigate Assist Succeed CA$281,355 Executive Director $77,542 $68,772 2023
Childrens Therapy Clinic WV$281,494 Executive Director $51,325 $57,078 2023
Watch Us Farm Inc IN$281,604 Executive Director $13,000 $13,677 2024
Rascal Rodeo WA$287,600 Executive Director $76,664 $68,475 2024
Willow Creek Ranch Inc WI$287,616 Executive Director $32,261 $33,612 2024
Boise Services Group Inc ID$287,658 President $65,828 $69,861 2024
Healing Reins Of Kentucky Inc KY$271,770 Director $14,095 $15,107 2024
Manes And Motions Therapeutic Riding CT$291,123 President & Ceo $19,923 $18,636 2024
Grow Pediatric Therapy Services MO$291,608 Secretary $250 $264 2024
Wilderwood Equine Therapy NM$263,853 Executive Di $81,625 $87,584 2024
Central New York Regional Emergency NY$261,182 Excutive Director $90,934 $79,863 2025
Stable Friendships Foundation Inc NY$258,980 Vice President $21,000 $18,931 2024
Willowind Therapeutic Riding Center Inc ME$303,502 Executive Director $94,308 $94,211 2024
Help Me Grow Pediatric Rehab Services NH$256,370 Executive Director $22,500 $20,726 2024
Gestalt Training Institute Of Philadelphia Inc PA$252,225 Ex. Director Until 1/20/23 $61,300 $62,787 2023
School Of Service MO$310,410 Executive Director $39,046 $42,476 2023
Hopewell Ranch Inc MI$251,146 Executive Di $21,300 $22,581 2023
Heartstrides Therapeutic Riding WA$251,000 Founding Director $60,625 $54,149 2024
Form5 Prosthetics Inc OH$314,173 Founder/ Ceo $55,000 $58,115 2024
Adaptive Physical Education CA$246,621 Vice President $62,388 $53,745 2024
Berkeley Acupuncture Project Of Ca CA$316,423 President $54,937 $47,326 2024
Two Bear Therapeutic Riding Center Inc MT$317,556 Executive Dir. $55,000 $60,894 2023
New Hope Equine Assisted Therapy TX$320,848 Executive Dir. $36,279 $35,271 2025
Meg Foundation CO$238,925 Executive Director $122,019 $116,724 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to NV 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 NV 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 default5th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)7th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted12th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted5th

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 (Nikki Landa) 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 60 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (E50), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $10,500 is reasonable (approximately the 5th 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.