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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Sustainable Woodstock Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 271178081
VT · NTEE C20
FY ending 2024-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Jenevra Wetmore, Executive Director / CEO ($51,433) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 28 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 43rd percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

28 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 28 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$2,181 total compensation of comparable organizations → $232,208 $51,433
$10,55910th
$21,21425th
$57,094Median
$74,90975th
$96,65090th
$51,433This org · 43rd
p10$10,559
p25$21,214
p50$57,094
p75$74,909
p90$96,650
$51,433

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 VT 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
Champaign County Environmental Stewards IL$313,037 Executive Director $12,490 $12,200 2024
Orleans Land Restoration Corporation NY$303,646 C.e.o./c.f.o. $23,698 $21,275 2024
Western Pa Coalition For Abandoned PA$330,871 Executive Di $73,442 $74,913 2023
Pacific Sound Resources Environmental WA$336,662 Trustee $2,382 $2,181 2023
Alliance For Nuclear Responsibility CA$337,058 Executive Director $22,770 $20,112 2023
Friends Of Bayou Lafourche Inc LA$290,045 Executive Director $51,458 $57,958 2023
Clean Air Coalition Of Western NY$338,710 Executive Dir. $64,223 $57,657 2024
Babb Creek Watershed Association PA$342,759 Director $14,400 $14,267 2024
Upper Peninsula Land Conservancy MI$344,028 Interim Exec $20,508 $21,030 2024
Local Environmental Action Demanded Agency Inc OK$277,875 Executive Director $4,917 $5,379 2024
Bikeventura CA$272,422 Director $43,108 $36,983 2024
Greater Indiana Clean Cities Inc IN$270,798 Exec Director $77,426 $83,517 2023
Oregon Physicians For Social OR$358,036 Executive Dire $61,270 $56,530 2024
Community Climate Solutions CA$257,065 President And Program Manager $89,625 $74,908 2025
San Bruno Mountain Watch CA$256,427 Executive Dir. $85,293 $73,173 2024
Neighbors For Clean Air OR$372,899 Co-executive Director $67,059 $61,871 2024
Tejas Roadrunners Non Profit TX$247,008 Director $28,058 $27,885 2024
Cottonwood Environmental Law Center Inc MT$242,672 Executive Director $120,000 $132,310 2023
Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action CA$396,132 Interim Ed $76,000 $65,201 2024
Material Innovation Institute CA$231,821 Chief Executive Officer (Thru July) $82,609 $70,871 2024
Toxics Action Center Inc MA$227,403 President $7,321 $6,729 2023
Sustainable Learning Inc NY$404,621 Executive Director $44,100 $39,592 2024
Restore The Earth Foundation Inc MD$217,709 Executive Director $249,996 $232,208 2024
Santa Fe Watershed Association NM$412,814 Executive Di $50,195 $55,222 2023
Guadalupe-blanco River Trust TX$427,195 Executive Director $33,000 $32,796 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to VT 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 VT 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 default43rd
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)46th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted43rd
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted36th

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 (Jenevra Wetmore) 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 28 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (C20), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $51,433 is reasonable (approximately the 43rd 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.