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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

At The Table Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 275284715
AR · NTEE K35
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Jennifer Sorey, Executive Director / CEO ($39,539) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 393 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 47th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

393 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 393 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$11 total compensation of comparable organizations → $412,314 $39,539
$9,80210th
$25,51125th
$40,992Median
$58,14475th
$77,73590th
$39,539This org · 47th
p10$9,802
p25$25,511
p50$40,992
p75$58,144
p90$77,735
$39,539

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 AR 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
Utah Dairy Herd Improvement Assoc UT$275,091 Manager $39,739 $36,183 2024
Meals On Wheels Of Evansville Inc IN$274,945 Executive Director $27,715 $26,002 2024
Project Milk Mission OH$274,762 President $92,209 $89,452 2023
Hollywood Farmers Market Inc OR$273,190 Interim Market Director $37,583 $31,967 2023
Old Marbach School Water Supply TX$273,088 Key Employee $28,969 $25,780 2024
All Faiths Pantry OH$277,295 Executive Director $30,870 $29,947 2023
Natural Soybean And Grain Alliance Inc AR$277,315 Director $112,400 $112,400 2024
Food For The Spirit Inc NY$272,637 Executive Director $65,769 $52,872 2024
Grace Filled Table MN$272,537 Executive Di $34,066 $29,946 2024
Thimbleberry Collaborative Farm OR$277,743 Exec Dir $49,433 $42,046 2023
Chester Agricultural Center Inc NY$277,859 Executive Director $110,000 $88,429 2024
Global Garden Refugee Training Farm IL$278,708 Executive Director $70,000 $61,223 2024
International Center For Food Ontology CA$278,964 Chair $103,250 $81,660 2023
Loaves & Fishes Of The Fox Valley Inc WI$279,217 Executive Director $53,605 $49,805 2024
Passion And Compassion Inc MD$279,365 Executive Dir. $57,000 $48,809 2023
Hartford Food System Inc CT$279,495 Executive Dir. $87,539 $75,177 2023
Paulding County Area Foundation - OH$270,088 Executive Di $57,000 $53,709 2024
Gardenshare Inc NY$270,002 Executive Di $60,909 $48,965 2024
The Body Positive CA$269,542 Executive Direc $129,918 $99,804 2024
Community Kitchens Of Birmingham AL$281,398 Executive Director $58,942 $58,323 2023
Madras Community Food Pantry OR$281,766 Executive Director $12,000 $9,914 2024
Nicollet County Agricultural Society MN$267,949 Exec Secretary $1,375 $1,209 2024
Feeding Our Kids IL$282,181 Executive Director $38,644 $33,799 2024
Hillsdale Farmers Market Inc OR$267,831 Manager $44,925 $37,116 2024
Raleigh City Farm Inc NC$282,282 Executive Director $53,248 $48,947 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to AR 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 AR 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 default47th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)40th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted49th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted45th

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 (Jennifer Sorey) 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 393 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (K), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $39,539 is reasonable (approximately the 47th 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.