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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Team Telomere Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 263776187
ID · NTEE G20
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Katherine Stevens, Executive Director / CEO ($125,000) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 366 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 92nd percentile of comparable organizationsabove the 90th percentile — board review recommended

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

How comparable organizations were selected

366 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 366 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$176 total compensation of comparable organizations → $698,033 $125,000
$19,45210th
$42,11025th
$68,840Median
$92,09175th
$113,77190th
$125,000This org · 92nd
p10$19,452
p25$42,110
p50$68,840
p75$92,091
p90$113,771
$125,000

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 ID 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
Richmond County Cancer Care Treasure Shop NC$428,648 President $106,483 $106,482 2023
Ellie's Army Inc FL$426,319 Assistant Director $61,077 $53,937 2024
Sickle Cell Disease Association Of America PA$431,379 Executive Director $80,000 $74,995 2024
New York State Rheumatology Society Inc NY$431,860 President $6,500 $5,521 2024
Wyoming Breast Cancer Initiative WY$432,506 Executive Di $71,205 $73,792 2023
Legal Information Network For Cancer VA$424,157 Executive Director $87,599 $81,857 2023
Beautiful Gate Outreach Center Inc DE$423,891 Program Director $66,083 $62,622 2023
National Education Alliance For NJ$433,633 Executive Director $144,250 $124,646 2023
Ashland County Cancer OH$433,810 Executive Di $63,499 $65,090 2023
Pink Hands Of Hope PA$433,918 Executive Di $50,738 $48,969 2023
Corporacion El Punto En La Montana PR$422,445 Velez $46,080 $46,080 2024
Good Samaritan Institute For Research And Education CA$435,247 System President & Ceo $38,737 $31,444 2024
Autistic Self-reliance Support Network OH$435,416 Cofounder And Co-executive Director $82,152 $81,794 2024
National Pain Advocacy Center CO$435,642 Executive Director $176,815 $159,378 2024
The Parkinson Council PA$420,894 Chief Executive Officer $118,511 $111,096 2024
Next Step Kansas City Inc KS$436,300 Executive Director $59,855 $62,582 2023
Partners For Breast Cancer Careinc FL$420,454 Executive Di $99,245 $87,642 2024
Association For The Visually Impaired NY$437,032 Ceo/ed $41,132 $34,939 2024
My Time Inc NY$439,914 Executive Directors $99,595 $84,600 2024
Mitoaction Inc MI$416,574 Ceo $111,765 $108,443 2024
Nplex OR$440,776 Exec Dir $108,915 $97,888 2023
Huntington's Disease Youth Organization MI$415,962 Executive Director $110,000 $106,730 2024
Down Syndrome Association Of South TX$441,715 Executive Director $85,229 $80,143 2024
Me Squared Cancer Foundation TX$442,014 Executive Director - Start Date 7/16/2024 $32,813 $30,855 2024
Autism Society Of Texas TX$442,890 Executive Director $81,600 $78,997 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to ID 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 ID 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 default92nd
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)89th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted94th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted85th

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 (Katherine Stevens) 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 366 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (G), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $125,000 is reasonable (approximately the 92nd 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.