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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Awakenings Art

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 271747959
IL · NTEE I73
FY ending 2025-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Laura Kinter, Executive Director / CEO ($87,500) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 498 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 79th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

498 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 498 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$451 total compensation of comparable organizations → $424,766 $87,500
$24,75410th
$43,07825th
$62,558Median
$83,29175th
$106,86890th
$87,500This org · 79th
p10$24,754
p25$43,078
p50$62,558
p75$83,291
p90$106,868
$87,500

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 IL 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
Columbia Gorge Casa OR$282,100 Executive Dir. $59,267 $57,465 2024
Lex Rex Institute CA$281,879 Ceo And Attorney $471,140 $424,766 2024
Peoples Law Center WI$281,834 Executive Director $138,000 $154,920 2023
Rivington Housing Development Fund NY$281,793 President/ed $61,872 $58,374 2024
Washington Wage Claim Project WA$281,506 Staff Attorney $183,961 $171,962 2024
Montgomery County Bar Foundation AL$283,016 Executive Director $90,360 $101,923 2024
Momentum Nonprofit Partners TN$281,398 Chief Executive Officer $123,166 $139,165 2023
Citizens Crime Commission Of Delaware Valley PA$283,394 President $50,000 $53,598 2023
Roosevelt Park Ministries Inc MI$280,833 Executive Director $78,751 $87,374 2023
The Four-seven Inc OH$280,797 Executive Director $73,392 $81,160 2024
Restorative Arlington VA$280,733 Executive Director $68,091 $68,644 2024
Court Appointed Special Advocates AL$283,833 Executive Director $54,298 $61,247 2024
Child Assault Prevention Project Of Washoe County NV$280,285 Executive Director $65,000 $66,273 2025
Medical Justice Allianceinc NY$284,557 Executive Director $66,796 $63,019 2024
North Star Family Advocacy Center MN$279,355 Executive Dir. $106,000 $109,358 2024
Conflict Resolution Center Inc NC$285,387 Executive Director $44,101 $46,351 2025
African Institute For Children Studies AZ$285,614 Executive Director $72,813 $71,229 2025
Prevent Child Abuse Oregon OR$285,797 Executive Dir. $95,708 $92,798 2024
Wings Of God Transition Home Inc MI$278,652 Executive Director $37,886 $42,035 2023
Friendship Community Development Corporation CA$277,388 Ceo $53,125 $49,310 2023
South Lake Tahoe Family Resource Center CA$288,622 Executive Dir. $50,002 $46,412 2023
Virginia Mentoring Partnership VA$275,801 Executive Di $83,246 $81,758 2025
Columbia Basin Dispute Resolution Center WA$288,772 Executive Dir. $53,000 $51,006 2023
Fr Michael Mission Inc MD$289,115 President $10,113 $10,163 2023
A Safe Space Of St Charles LA$289,384 Executive Director $26,004 $29,896 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to IL cost of living and 2025 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 IL 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 default79th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)81st
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted81st
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted75th

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 (Laura Kinter) 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 498 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (I), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $87,500 is reasonable (approximately the 79th 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.