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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Casa - 15th Judicial Circuit

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 363641086
IL · NTEE R200
FY ending 2024-07-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Trisha Tayon, Executive Director / CEO ($71,250) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 64 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 66th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

64 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 64 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1,680 total compensation of comparable organizations → $132,569 $71,250
$21,87110th
$38,41625th
$63,631Median
$77,87375th
$104,81590th
$71,250This org · 66th
p10$21,871
p25$38,416
p50$63,631
p75$77,873
p90$104,815
$71,250

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 IL 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
Moveon Education Fund OR$265,211 Executive Director $7,769 $7,339 2024
Court Appointed Special Advocate Of CA$264,947 Former Executive Director $76,923 $67,564 2024
The Buffalo Trace Casa Program Inc KY$268,498 Executive Dir. $72,431 $77,114 2025
Palm Beach Fellowship Of Christians And FL$270,435 Executive Director $78,350 $74,868 2024
Strategic Advocacy For Human Rights Inc CA$261,338 Co-executive Director $33,723 $30,495 2023
Casa Partners 4nmkids Inc NM$256,941 Executive Director $45,000 $49,231 2024
Muslim Justice League MA$256,525 Executive Director $87,374 $77,806 2025
Casa Of Southwest Georgia Inc GA$254,994 Executive Di $54,288 $57,164 2023
Central Georgia Casa Inc GA$253,174 Executive Di $70,000 $69,748 2025
Cair National Legal Defense Fund Inc DC$249,901 Director/secretary $25,927 $23,142 2024
Before Racism MN$284,539 Vice President & Secretary $30,795 $31,866 2023
Carroll County Casa Inc GA$247,723 Executive Dir. $63,840 $63,609 2025
National Organization For The Reform Of DC$285,744 Board Member $23,500 $20,976 2024
Muslim American Leadership Alliance IL$246,473 Chairperson $75,617 $75,617 2024
Sampson County Child Advocacy NC$246,315 Executive Di $52,670 $55,357 2024
Colonial Court Appointed Special VA$288,982 Executive Di $79,495 $78,074 2024
Carolina For All Education Fou SC$289,237 Director $59,970 $65,517 2023
Jefferson Childrens Advocacy Center LA$291,233 Executive Director $1,500 $1,680 2024
Casa Of Southern Illinois Inc IL$240,246 Executive Dir. $67,056 $65,328 2025
Gideons Army Grassroots Army TN$293,442 Executive Dir. $96,000 $99,996 2025
Loud And Proud MI$238,733 Executive Director $20,313 $21,326 2024
Father S Group OR$294,383 Ed $83,078 $78,476 2024
Rappahannock Casa Inc VA$233,323 Executive Director $62,658 $63,356 2023
Fw Black Collective WA$232,327 Executive Director $70,758 $64,438 2024
Massachusetts Casa Association MA$231,759 Executive Director $106,716 $100,425 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to IL 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 IL 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 default66th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)61st
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted69th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted63rd

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 (Trisha Tayon) 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 64 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (R20), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $71,250 is reasonable (approximately the 66th 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.