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Compensation Comparability Determination

Montana Innocence Project

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 262603477
MT · NTEE I80
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Amy Sings In The Timber, Executive Director / CEO ($119,001) 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 80th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Amy Sings In The Timber — reported title “Executive Dir.”, 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

$1,134 total compensation of comparable organizations → $311,081 $119,001
$46,60310th
$70,35825th
$86,570Median
$109,08975th
$135,87290th
$119,001This org · 80th
p10$46,603
p25$70,358
p50$86,570
p75$109,089
p90$135,872
$119,001

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 MT 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
Helping Educate To Advance The Rights Of DC$601,903 Executive Director $86,698 $72,664 2023
Casa Jefferson Inc LA$588,823 Executive Director $22,605 $23,091 2024
Nonprofit Legal Services Of Utah UT$604,681 Director $101,564 $96,432 2024
Centro De Ayuda Legal Para CA$585,036 Exec Dir. $46,215 $36,067 2025
The Liberty Fund Inc NY$582,654 Executive Director $1,314 $1,134 2023
🔒 114 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 MT 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 MT 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 default80th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)71st
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted75th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted77th

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.