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

The Education Foundation Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 311512495
OH · NTEE B82
FY ending 2025-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Sarah Hastings, Executive Director / CEO ($25,938) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 205 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 34th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Sarah Hastings — reported title “EXECUTIVE DI”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

205 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 205 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1 total compensation of comparable organizations → $190,988 $25,938
$6,49510th
$20,42025th
$43,105Median
$67,27175th
$91,73290th
$25,938This org · 34th
p10$6,495
p25$20,420
p50$43,105
p75$67,271
p90$91,732
$25,938

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 OH 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
These Numbers Have Faces OR$259,701 Executive Director $90,000 $83,392 2023
Scholarchips Inc DC$261,153 Founder And Executive Directo $99,342 $86,980 2023
Red Legacy Recovery Inc TN$258,828 Executive Director $55,120 $57,809 2023
The Piston Foundation Inc CT$258,541 Secretary $115,562 $105,008 2024
Bolivar Educational Advancement MO$262,684 Secretary Tr $5,348 $5,489 2024
Calculated Genius Inc IL$262,815 Executive Director $80,000 $76,222 2024
East Valley Institute Of Technology Education Foundation Inc AZ$262,844 Board Member $14,400 $13,421 2024
Greene County Fair Association Inc AR$263,615 Manager $2,119 $2,308 2024
Foundation For Eden Prairie Schools MN$264,008 Executive Director $30,541 $29,246 2024
Georgia Association Of Realtors GA$255,748 Ceo/ga Assoc. Of Realtors $21,554 $20,462 2025
John P Burke Memorial Fund RI$264,645 Executive Director $35,833 $33,299 2024
Shenandoah Valley Scholars Latino Initiative Inc VA$264,770 Managing Director $2,733 $2,557 2024
African American Teaching Fellows VA$264,812 Executive Di $82,442 $77,144 2024
Orme Primavera Schools Foundation AZ$264,877 Treasurer $1,700 $1,544 2025
American Student Association Of Community Colleges UT$264,911 Executive Director $14,584 $15,504 2022
Texas Architectural Foundation TX$264,935 Txa Evp $29,217 $28,324 2024
The Eagan Foundation Incorporated MN$254,993 Executive Di $45,124 $44,488 2023
Missouri Community Health Foundation MO$254,821 Ceo $82,247 $86,917 2023
Raymore-peculiar Public School MO$254,610 Executive Di $55,000 $55,000 2025
Kensap Inc NJ$265,787 Executive Director $96,000 $85,521 2023
North Coast Builders Exchange CA$253,168 Chief Executive Officer $17,698 $15,248 2023
Germantown Community Scholarship Fund Inc WI$267,938 Executive Director $34,000 $35,428 2023
Tbi Warrior Foundation TX$268,167 President $7,000 $6,986 2023
The Claymont Foundation Inc OH$268,956 Financial Secretary $6,000 $6,159 2024
Native Agriculture Education Fellowship Program ND$268,969 Executive Director $100,298 $109,821 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to OH cost of living and 2025 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 OH 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 default34th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)32nd
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted51st
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted22nd

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 (Sarah Hastings) 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 205 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (B82), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $25,938 is reasonable (approximately the 34th 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.