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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Indiana Land Protection Alliance

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 352065591
IN · NTEE C30
FY ending 2023-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Andrea Huntington, Executive Director / CEO ($77,500) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 100 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 84th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

100 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 100 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1,506 total compensation of comparable organizations → $146,459 $77,500
$11,39910th
$24,94325th
$54,026Median
$67,80275th
$82,75290th
$77,500This org · 84th
p10$11,399
p25$24,943
p50$54,026
p75$67,802
p90$82,752
$77,500

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 IN 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
I-20 Wildlife Preserve & Jenna Welch TX$214,236 Executive Dir. $59,249 $56,201 2023
Philadelphia Community Farm Inc WI$212,883 President $4,548 $4,375 2024
Valley In Motion PA$212,338 President $89,675 $82,367 2024
Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear MI$216,955 Executive Director $32,000 $30,422 2024
Friends Of Lake Elmo's MN$217,060 Board Member $2,013 $1,832 2024
Ocean Agency RI$209,769 President & Ceo $105,173 $92,887 2024
Monterey Audubon Society CA$208,868 Executive Director $27,221 $21,092 2025
Netcorps OR$207,493 Executive Di $67,458 $57,700 2024
Paddle Antrim MI$207,391 Executive Di $80,128 $76,177 2024
The North Skunk River Greenbelt Association IA$207,310 Treasurer Executive Director $16,273 $16,896 2023
Blue Mountains Forest Partners OR$206,916 Executive Dir. $77,700 $66,461 2024
The River Project CA$220,622 President $6,384 $5,227 2023
Wisconsin Bear Hunters Association Inc WI$206,383 President $6,000 $5,772 2024
Lake Heritage Parks Foundation Inc IN$221,458 Executive Director $11,495 $11,165 2024
Coastal Shores Inc VA$205,828 President $42,769 $38,035 2024
Restoring The Lake Depths NV$205,234 Executive Dir. $69,856 $64,494 2024
Riverwood Nature Center Inc WI$223,054 President $18,862 $18,144 2024
Downwinders At Risk Education Fund TX$203,759 Executive Dir. $43,750 $40,309 2024
One Earth Conservation NY$202,605 Vice President & Secretary $22,982 $19,128 2024
Overland Expo Foundation Incorporated IN$202,559 Executive Director $32,000 $31,082 2024
The New Nature Foundation PA$225,354 President $59,000 $54,192 2024
Energy & Conservation Law CO$225,726 Executive Dir. $132,385 $116,920 2024
Bull Run Mountains Conservancy Inc VA$228,778 Executive Director $127,013 $110,044 2025
Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Center I NY$231,005 President/founder $92,223 $82,264 2022
Ocean Fest Inc NC$195,966 Event Operations Manager $22,917 $22,454 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to IN cost of living and 2023 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 IN 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 default84th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)77th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted85th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted82nd

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 (Andrea Huntington) 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 100 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (C30), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $77,500 is reasonable (approximately the 84th 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.