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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

The Houston Parks Board Foundation

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 274576670
TX · NTEE C99
FY ending 2024-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Beth White, Executive Director / CEO ($29,230) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 47 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 19th percentile of comparable organizationsbelow the typical range for comparable organizations

Benchmarked executive: Beth White — reported title “HPB President & CEO”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

47 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 47 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$2,528 total compensation of comparable organizations → $263,839 $29,230
$12,04510th
$37,43725th
$66,778Median
$102,24075th
$124,19790th
$29,230This org · 19th
p10$12,045
p25$37,437
p50$66,778
p75$102,240
p90$124,197
$29,230

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
Valley Advocates For ID$339,513 Executive Di $102,141 $108,623 2024
Bethesda Green Inc MD$341,433 Executive Director $119,508 $111,694 2024
Grand Island Area Clean Community NE$343,860 Executive Di $81,649 $87,791 2024
Havens Harvest Inc CT$350,790 Executive Director $90,884 $85,187 2024
The Resource Exchange PA$303,956 Executive Director Ceo $47,168 $47,023 2024
Wilderness Louisville Inc KY$302,359 Executive Director $91,749 $98,541 2024
African Hope Fund Inc CA$300,697 Operations Manager $35,500 $30,645 2024
Portland Harbor Community Coalition OR$300,429 Executive Director $45,224 $43,225 2023
Citizens For Nuclear Technology Awareness SC$296,011 Current Exec Dir $62,750 $65,443 2024
The Mid-atlantic Chapter Of The Intl Society Of Ar VA$369,824 Executive Director $71,395 $70,949 2023
Truckee Dirt Union CA$370,119 Employee $12,325 $10,954 2023
Triple Bottom Line Foundation CO$376,878 President/secretary $30,000 $28,757 2024
Nh Businesses For Social Responsibility NH$376,890 Advocacy Director, Past Executive Director $60,899 $54,765 2025
River Bend Nature Center Inc WI$377,874 Executive Director $72,000 $77,391 2023
Youth For Environmental Sanity CA$377,943 Community Learning & Partnership $12,000 $10,359 2024
Montana Conservation Society MT$285,400 Executive Director $110,000 $118,537 2024
The Little Forks Conservancy Inc MI$379,505 Executive Dir. $108,087 $111,529 2024
Bee The World Corp TX$280,446 President $2,593 $2,593 2024
Seattle Reconomy WA$384,298 Exec Director $43,057 $38,537 2024
808 Cleanups HI$278,781 Executive Director $43,200 $38,665 2024
Wilderness Volunteers Giving Something Back AZ$269,117 Executive Director $69,457 $66,778 2024
Pacific Beach Coalition CA$265,137 President $52,000 $44,888 2024
Live Green Connecticut Inc CT$260,833 President $137,500 $132,688 2023
Earth Guardians Inc CO$410,445 Executive Director $47,297 $46,677 2023
Ohio River Way OH$248,751 Executive Dir. $38,262 $40,513 2024

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 default19th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)17th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted0th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted98th

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 (Beth White) 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 47 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (C99), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $29,230 is reasonable (approximately the 19th 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.