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

Junior Achievement Of The Michigan

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 381402160
MI · NTEE Q320
FY ending 2025-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Connie Poisson, Executive Director / CEO ($78,154) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 37 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 46th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

37 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 37 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$14,099 total compensation of comparable organizations → $230,007 $78,154
$27,74410th
$51,32325th
$79,583Median
$102,57775th
$124,55990th
$78,154This org · 46th
p10$27,744
p25$51,323
p50$79,583
p75$102,577
p90$124,559
$78,154

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 MI 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
Conservation Through Poverty Alleviation International Inc MA$387,360 Managing Director $49,763 $44,471 2024
Georgie Badiel Foundation Inc NY$373,925 Ceo $98,010 $90,676 2023
Soul Foundation Inc MD$372,845 Chair $96,921 $90,110 2024
Joycorps Project AR$409,694 Executive Director $52,653 $58,857 2024
Thomas Jefferson Institute For The Study Of World Politics DC$365,689 President $256,004 $230,007 2023
Sanabel Microfinance Network Of The $425,004 Executive Director $21,394 $22,609 2023
Go Love SC$427,042 Executive Director $13,200 $14,099 2023
Missions Development International TN$431,475 President $78,116 $84,068 2023
Peri Support Fund Inc MA$432,226 President $32,455 $29,860 2023
Junior Achievement Of Southern Ma MA$346,789 President & Ceo $90,424 $83,194 2023
Junior Achievement Of Eastern North NC$345,533 President And Ceo $105,074 $105,186 2025
Manas Development Group DC$442,276 President $29,068 $26,116 2023
Discipling Marketplace Leaders MI$453,546 President $50,000 $51,323 2024
Junior Achievement Of Arkansas Inc AR$460,297 President $92,049 $105,934 2023
Sembrando Sentido Inc PR$460,511 Executive Director $99,933 $102,577 2024
Junior Achievement Of The Ocoee Region TN$310,470 President $93,593 $95,313 2025
The G-24 Liaison Office DC$474,405 Director $231,941 $202,409 2024
Junior Achievement Of Southwest VA$302,302 President $82,581 $79,295 2024
One World Goods Inc NY$300,498 Store Manager $59,387 $53,367 2024
Grow Ahead Foundation OR$293,206 Executive Director Board Pre $21,000 $19,966 2023
Native Future ME$286,586 President $62,500 $62,238 2024
Junior Achievement Of The Desert Southwest TX$285,477 President $78,018 $79,903 2023
20 Liters MI$284,894 Executive Director $28,087 $28,830 2024
Jungle Ministry WA$284,502 President/ex $80,422 $71,604 2024
Nehemiah Gateway Usa Inc CO$281,973 President $85,000 $81,054 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to MI 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 MI 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 default46th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)46th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted54th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted41st

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 (Connie Poisson) 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 37 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (Q32), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $78,154 is reasonable (approximately the 46th 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.