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

Akron Bar Foundation

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 341503646
OH · NTEE E80Z
FY ending 2025-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of C Allen Nichols, Executive Director / CEO ($6,825) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 31 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 3rd percentile of comparable organizationsbelow the typical range for comparable organizations

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

How comparable organizations were selected

31 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 31 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$3,930 total compensation of comparable organizations → $512,402 $6,825
$19,72810th
$48,71325th
$79,257Median
$119,89375th
$174,24090th
$6,825This org · 3rd
p10$19,728
p25$48,713
p50$79,257
p75$119,893
p90$174,240
$6,825

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
Advocates For Better Health MN$423,545 Executive Di $114,741 $109,877 2024
Tepeyac Qalicb Inc CO$424,150 President $20,098 $18,677 2024
Love Button Global Movement CA$413,096 Executive Director $36,000 $30,127 2024
Reproductive Freedom Fund Of New Hampshire NH$397,166 Executive Director $70,000 $62,640 2024
Medical Research Analytics And IL$371,208 Secretary $4,125 $3,930 2024
Business For Health Solutions International Inc NY$367,837 Ceo And Board Member $144,246 $126,321 2024
Better Health Of Cumberland County Inc NC$361,831 Executive Director $70,403 $68,682 2025
Oregon Cancer Foundation OR$488,965 Executive Director $86,700 $78,029 2024
Carepoint Clinic WA$357,518 Executive Director $33,082 $29,552 2023
Pennsylvania School-based Health Alliance PA$490,668 Cousler $46,000 $44,457 2024
Christiana Care West Grove Inc DE$355,825 Director, President & Ceo $214,949 $209,996 2023
Medtech Color MD$499,746 Executive Director $192,308 $174,240 2024
Frasier Living Inc CO$501,339 President And Ceo $8,505 $7,903 2024
Culpeper Adult Day Care Center Inc VA$344,525 Executive Director $62,250 $56,748 2025
Peak Health Alliance CO$341,570 Exec Dir-beg $57,000 $52,969 2024
C-tac Innovations Inc DC$319,832 Executive Director $138,360 $117,667 2024
Texhealth Central Texas TX$318,553 President And Ceo $157,834 $153,009 2024
Kickin Cancer In Sublette County WY$314,746 Secretary $18,465 $19,728 2023
Napa County Bicycle Coalition CA$312,072 Executive Director $89,125 $74,584 2024
Putnam Hospital Center Foundation Inc NY$537,399 President - Putnam Hospital $45,894 $40,191 2024
International College Of Dentists MI$542,423 Secretary General $69,000 $71,060 2023
Urban Health And Wellness Inc GA$542,748 Executive Director $81,620 $79,535 2024
Community Life Support Inc FL$301,597 Chairman $125,000 $113,803 2024
Greater Gift Initiative Inc NC$301,369 Ceo $138,750 $143,044 2023
Global Parents For Eczema Research CA$554,281 Executive Director $124,587 $107,340 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 default3rd
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)3rd
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted0th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted77th

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 (C Allen Nichols) 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 31 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (E80), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $6,825 is reasonable (approximately the 3rd 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.