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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Operation Snowball Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 371236909
IL · NTEE F21Z
FY ending 2025-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Gerald Deloss, Executive Director / CEO ($32,780) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 49 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 20th percentile of comparable organizationsbelow the typical range for comparable organizations

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

How comparable organizations were selected

49 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 49 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$12,318 total compensation of comparable organizations → $128,546 $32,780
$25,58610th
$43,27525th
$61,860Median
$85,73175th
$110,60990th
$32,780This org · 20th
p10$25,586
p25$43,275
p50$61,860
p75$85,731
p90$110,609
$32,780

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
Monroe County Coalition Inc FL$358,422 Executive Di $74,891 $73,455 2024
Marin Healthy Youth Partnerships CA$347,416 President $91,345 $80,231 2025
Columbus County Dream Center Inc NC$364,138 Exe Director $52,010 $56,109 2024
Christine Ortoll Recovery FL$346,095 Director/pro $81,555 $85,731 2022
Overton County Anti-drug Coalition Inc TN$344,408 Director $100,053 $109,806 2024
Project White Butterfly OH$342,179 Executive Dir. $14,648 $16,199 2024
Travis House Inc CO$338,784 Executive Dir. $30,000 $30,035 2024
Come To Him Ministries CA$336,946 President $59,998 $54,092 2024
Influence Foundation Inc VT$333,588 President & Executive Director $115,315 $124,763 2023
Recovery Community Network Inc MN$330,973 Director $58,240 $61,860 2023
What's Important Now Foundation OK$380,972 Executive Director $104,459 $120,095 2024
My Life Foundation Inc MD$385,986 President $32,180 $31,411 2024
Phillips County Coalition For Healthy MT$323,786 Executive Director $21,825 $25,289 2023
Family Alliance Of Paulding Inc GA$323,600 Executive Director $39,186 $44,090 2022
Alcap AL$388,306 Executive Director $71,045 $80,136 2024
Coalition For Youth Drug Abuse AZ$322,094 President $52,000 $53,756 2023
Life Align Inc MI$390,123 Executive Di $102,064 $109,991 2024
Favor Western Pennsylvania PA$320,914 Executive Di $18,144 $19,449 2023
Partnership For A Drug Free Community Inc AL$391,838 Executive Director $59,301 $66,889 2024
Massac County Drug Awareness C IL$316,847 Program Dir $52,821 $54,219 2024
Communities Confronting Substance Use & NJ$400,942 President $22,846 $21,926 2023
Dream Of Hattiesburg Inc MS$402,862 Excutive Director $84,768 $98,573 2024
Community Prevention Services Inc NC$412,682 President $49,999 $55,533 2023
525 Foundation Inc IN$296,807 President $61,000 $69,147 2023
The Peggie And Paul Shevlin Family PA$292,653 Executive Di $71,859 $74,819 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to IL 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 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 default20th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)20th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted0th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted98th

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 (Gerald Deloss) 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 49 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (F21), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $32,780 is reasonable (approximately the 20th 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.