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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Illinois Alliance For Retired Americans

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 371767607
IL · NTEE R25
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Krystle Able, Executive Director / CEO ($58,058) 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 63rd percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Krystle Able — reported title “Executive Dir.”, 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

$83 total compensation of comparable organizations → $205,516 $58,058
$7,63610th
$23,29925th
$44,581Median
$72,01375th
$93,53490th
$58,058This org · 63rd
p10$7,636
p25$23,299
p50$44,581
p75$72,013
p90$93,534
$58,058

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
Virginia Coalition For Open VA$109,373 Executive Di $61,000 $59,910 2024
League Of Women Voters Of CA$108,868 Executive Director $72,560 $63,732 2024
A Is For NY$107,850 Executive Director $26,000 $24,604 2023
Unitarian Universalists For Social Justice DC$107,475 Executive Director $33,456 $30,745 2023
Center For The Healing Of Racism TX$112,124 Executive Director $75,000 $78,565 2023
Medgar And Myrlie Evers Institute MS$106,645 Executive Director $64,170 $74,843 2023
New York Civil Rights Coalition Inc NY$106,226 President & Ceo $95,000 $89,898 2023
Sankofa Impact WA$113,817 Executive Director $123,013 $115,334 2023
Center For Digital Democracy DC$105,491 President $126,259 $112,699 2024
The Fund For Northern Tier Development PA$114,107 Executive Director $56,000 $56,804 2024
Rhode Island State Right To Life Committee Inc RI$114,176 Executive Director $43,350 $43,530 2023
Ulysses S Grant Institute For The Study AL$105,077 President And Ceo $187,022 $205,516 2024
Unity Women's Desk Inc NC$115,519 Pres. / Coor $64,828 $68,135 2024
Trunorth Foundation CO$115,536 President & Ceo $75,000 $73,151 2024
Progress Texas TX$116,557 Executive Director $12,138 $12,716 2023
Rhode Island Cross Disability Coalition RI$117,708 Operations Manager $4,641 $4,527 2024
Immigrant Hope MN$119,748 Board Member $28,252 $29,234 2023
Equalitymaine ME$120,560 Pgm Director/exec Dir. $17,666 $17,993 2024
Right To Life Of Southwest Indiana IN$120,757 Executive Director $82,323 $90,914 2023
Word Is Bond OR$120,761 Executive Director $68,895 $67,001 2023
Christian Womens Job Corps Of Rusk TX$121,524 Executive Dir. $45,691 $46,490 2024
The Wclp Endowment Foundation CA$97,190 Executive Dir./president $19,853 $17,952 2023
Memphis For All TN$124,252 Board Member $38,642 $42,536 2023
Institute For Research On Presidential Elections CA$94,829 Vice President, Director $84,000 $75,959 2023
Oregon Firearms Federation OR$125,325 Director $55,000 $53,488 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 default63rd
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)61st
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted63rd
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted47th

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 (Krystle Able) 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 major group (R), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $58,058 is reasonable (approximately the 63rd 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.