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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Americans For The Competitive Enterprise

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 262763757
PA · NTEE B90
FY ending 2024-05-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Stacy Bartholomew, Executive Director / CEO ($71,924) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 340 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 74th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Stacy Bartholomew — reported title “SECRETARY & EXEC DIRECTOR”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

340 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 340 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$10 total compensation of comparable organizations → $230,309 $71,924
$11,41210th
$24,16025th
$50,593Median
$73,88375th
$97,07990th
$71,924This org · 74th
p10$11,412
p25$24,160
p50$50,593
p75$73,883
p90$97,079
$71,924

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
Your Own Greatness Affirmed Inc CA$223,129 Executive Director $70,500 $61,046 2024
Northwest Education Alliance NC$223,335 Secretary $43,200 $44,761 2024
Summer Work Experience In Law Inc OH$223,422 Executive Director $22,975 $24,402 2024
Cine Las Americas TX$223,628 Executive Director $52,126 $52,287 2024
Acton Academy Amarillo TX$223,681 Board Member $7,530 $7,553 2024
Pasadena Education Network CA$223,742 Executive Director $77,899 $67,453 2024
Vision Tutoring Educational Foundation Inc GA$222,378 Executive Director $64,418 $66,870 2023
Stem Leadership Center Inc CT$222,300 Director $37,688 $35,435 2024
National Voices For Equality Education And Enlightenment Inc FL$222,277 Executive Director $49,510 $48,017 2023
Steaming Ahead For Success Inc NM$222,048 Ceo $60,000 $66,624 2023
The Thinking Project Institute CO$221,314 President $102,588 $101,556 2023
New Day Ministries Inc KY$221,206 Executive Director $82,167 $91,137 2023
Community Campus VT$221,131 Director $59,510 $60,064 2024
Economics Arkansas Foundation AR$220,831 Executive Director $17,065 $19,235 2024
Central Jersey Rider Training Inc NJ$220,807 Executive Director $47,600 $43,876 2023
Camp Sweet Life Adventures Inc MN$219,685 Exec Director/key Ee $36,750 $37,489 2023
Learning Environments Action Research TX$219,583 Executive Director (Thru 10/31/24) $54,319 $54,487 2024
Hodos Institute WA$219,466 President, Board Member $96,500 $89,195 2023
Futuro Inc TN$219,010 Executive Officer $70,000 $73,784 2024
Lighthouse Academies Inc FL$218,951 Ceo $145,913 $137,454 2024
Sherman Apartments Association IL$227,426 Secretary/treasurer $12,317 $12,501 2023
Create Inc TN$218,914 President $33,000 $34,784 2024
Livingston County Education Alliance In NY$227,485 Preaident/ Ceo $10,868 $9,848 2024
Elevate West Alabama AL$218,833 Executive Director $76,249 $80,474 2025
Economic Club Of Nashville TN$227,921 Executive Dir. $41,000 $42,102 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 default74th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)73rd
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted68th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted69th

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 (Stacy Bartholomew) 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 340 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (B90), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $71,924 is reasonable (approximately the 74th 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.