Live preview — download the board-ready PDF to attach to your minutes.Download the free PDF
Email yourself a copy:
PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Iowa Statewide Independent Living

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 300335173
IA · NTEE R23
FY ending 2024-09-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Amy Robasse, Executive Director / CEO ($23,696) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 291 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 22nd percentile of comparable organizationsbelow the typical range for comparable organizations

Benchmarked executive: Amy Robasse — reported title “FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

291 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 291 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$599 total compensation of comparable organizations → $290,777 $23,696
$12,65310th
$25,81325th
$51,380Median
$77,98175th
$101,39390th
$23,696This org · 22nd
p10$12,653
p25$25,813
p50$51,380
p75$77,981
p90$101,393
$23,696

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 IA 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
Mississippi Rising Coalition MS$215,781 President $44,450 $45,214 2024
The Diverse Future Foundation Inc NY$215,800 Director $40,000 $33,986 2023
Stono Institute For Freedom Justice FL$214,334 President $46,250 $39,681 2024
Secular Coalition For America Inc DC$214,141 Exec Director $60,656 $48,612 2024
New York Birth Control Action Fund NY$213,837 Executive Dir. $96,665 $85,499 2022
One Nation Under God OH$213,748 Assistant Treas $16,875 $16,805 2023
Floridians For Alternatives To The Death FL$213,697 Executive Director $65,000 $55,768 2024
Collateral Consequences Resource Center DC$217,125 Executive Director $156,500 $129,131 2023
Cofa Alliance National Network OR$213,286 Board Member $15,544 $13,573 2023
North Dakota Family Alliance ND$217,303 Executive Di $92,497 $92,706 2024
Iowa Center For Children's Justice IA$217,376 Executive Director $76,325 $78,579 2023
Healing Racism Institute Inc MA$213,172 Executive Director $120,000 $101,393 2023
Stand Up Indiana Inc IN$213,136 Eecutive Dir $11,538 $11,441 2023
New Tolerance Campaign AZ$217,821 President $67,500 $59,288 2024
People Acting For Community Together FL$212,694 Executive Director $65,000 $57,415 2023
Black Skeptics Los Angeles CA$217,917 Board Member $1,308 $1,032 2024
Milwaukee Freedom Fund Incorporated WI$212,208 Eecutive Dir $85,115 $83,582 2023
San Bois Casa Inc OK$218,393 Executive Director $41,369 $41,603 2024
Eddy County Casa Auxiliary NM$218,495 Executive Di $56,333 $55,336 2024
Montana Racial Equity Project MT$218,498 Exec Director $60,701 $61,524 2023
American Liberties Institute Inc FL$211,598 President $127,748 $117,467 2022
Western Justice Legislative Fund OR$210,931 Director, Secretary, Treas $35,919 $31,364 2023
Immigration Coalition Corporation FL$219,900 President $53,000 $45,472 2024
My Sisters Lighthouse A Nj Nonprofit NJ$219,977 Executive Director $43,818 $35,730 2024
Peer Defense Project NY$210,259 Co-founding Executive Director $36,512 $30,133 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to IA 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 IA 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 default22nd
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)19th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted25th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted19th

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 (Amy Robasse) 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 291 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (R), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $23,696 is reasonable (approximately the 22nd 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.