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Compensation Comparability Determination

Heritage Action For America

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 272244700
DC · NTEE E01
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Ryan Walker, Executive Director / CEO ($415,882) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 932 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 86th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Ryan Walker — reported title “EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

932 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 932 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1,972 total compensation of comparable organizations → $10,616,201 $415,882
$49,84210th
$132,56525th
$230,807Median
$327,34475th
$524,86690th
$415,882This org · 86th
p10$49,842
p25$132,565
p50$230,807
p75$327,344
p90$524,866
$415,882

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 DC 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
Parker At Somerset Inc NJ$15,513,182 President/ceo $69,513 $70,726 2024
Bethel Lutheran Nursing & Rehabilitation ND$15,500,949 Ceo/administrator $211,521 $264,521 2024
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation NY$15,517,244 President & Director $947,460 $1,004,455 2023
Greeley County Health Services Inc KS$15,519,154 Ceo/cfo $215,441 $273,067 2023
Virginia League For Planned VA$15,519,255 President/ce $340,304 $374,436 2024
🔒 927 more comparable organizations — included in the purchased report

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to DC 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 DC 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 default86th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)88th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted82nd
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted64th

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:

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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.