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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Bell Tech Career Institute

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 271800561
TX · NTEE B30
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Kike Bello, Executive Director / CEO ($81,816) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 63 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 57th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Kike Bello — reported title “TRUSTEE”, selected as the organization's highest-paid individual — no exact title match, so confirm this is a comparable role.

How comparable organizations were selected

63 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 63 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1,710 total compensation of comparable organizations → $177,703 $81,816
$28,55410th
$41,14325th
$73,653Median
$98,02775th
$130,80590th
$81,816This org · 57th
p10$28,554
p25$41,143
p50$73,653
p75$98,027
p90$130,805
$81,816

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 TX 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
Chedvas Bais Yaakov OH$451,871 Trustee $49,756 $52,683 2024
Restore Texas Ministries TX$449,381 Ceo $68,624 $70,651 2023
Berkeley Herbal Center CA$460,216 Exec Directo $91,616 $79,086 2024
Total Beauty Institute FL$465,191 President $51,269 $48,148 2024
Ironworkers Local #12 Education And NY$434,499 Trustee $75,954 $68,613 2024
Plumbers & Steamfitters Local 568 Appren MS$433,287 Former Union Trustee $49,040 $54,601 2024
Chicago School Of Violin Making Inc IL$427,305 Executive Director $95,699 $94,054 2024
Wisconsin Education Innovations Inc WI$421,906 Executive Director $57,720 $60,262 2024
Friends Of Amateur Rocketry Inc CA$485,160 President $8,532 $7,583 2023
Montana Iec Education MT$487,047 School Admin $72,336 $77,950 2024
Aim Inc - Ambitious Imaginative Motivated NJ$488,357 Director Ceo $57,890 $51,670 2024
Regional Training Institute Inc AL$489,416 Director Of Education $38,540 $42,852 2023
Northeast Iowa Ironworkers IA$413,362 Trustee Alte $9,513 $10,145 2025
Plumbing-heating-cooling Contractors Academy Of San Diego CA$497,446 Cheif Executive Officer $30,720 $27,301 2023
Unite Here Local 54 Training & NJ$406,192 Chairperson/union Trustee $28,157 $25,874 2023
Journi Incorporated MI$500,222 Chief Executive Officer $96,427 $99,498 2024
Iowa State Trowel Trades Apprentice IA$385,735 Trustee $102,959 $112,698 2024
Spirit Of Aloha Outreaches HI$375,679 President $102,291 $94,257 2023
Open Roads Academy Inc CA$530,969 Secretary $60,000 $51,794 2024
South Carolina Indian Development Council Inc SC$368,454 Exec. Director $63,346 $64,362 2025
Circadium PA$367,508 Executive Director $28,516 $29,268 2023
York Community Resource Center PA$540,353 Executive Director $114,544 $111,248 2025
York Electrical Institute PA$540,839 Training Director $141,313 $137,246 2025
Cast Metals Institute IL$540,912 Chief Executive Officer $35,509 $35,930 2023
Chafer Theological Seminary NM$362,482 President $42,350 $46,881 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to TX 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 TX 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 default57th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)56th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted62nd
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted48th

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 (Kike Bello) 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 63 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (B30), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $81,816 is reasonable (approximately the 57th 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.