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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Doug & Kaisa Levine Family

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 383548910
MI · NTEE T11
FY ending 2024-05-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Dorothy Benyas, Executive Director / CEO ($26,189) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 57 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 47th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Dorothy Benyas — reported title “TREASURER”, selected as the organization's highest-paid individual — no exact title match, so confirm this is a comparable role.

How comparable organizations were selected

57 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 57 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$764 total compensation of comparable organizations → $725,481 $26,189
$7,56510th
$13,41625th
$27,352Median
$42,77775th
$71,57690th
$26,189This org · 47th
p10$7,565
p25$13,416
p50$27,352
p75$42,777
p90$71,576
$26,189

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
Utec Hub Inc MA$277,009 Clerk $853 $764 2023
Foundation For Flint MI$277,197 President And Ceo $20,050 $20,642 2023
Arizona School Choice Administrative AZ$278,354 Chairman $125,000 $119,909 2023
Place Of Hope In Haiti Inc FL$275,225 Managing Director $47,000 $42,777 2024
Lakeshore Support Organization AL$279,190 President $24,357 $25,494 2024
United Way Of Forsyth County NC$273,672 President An $23,279 $23,992 2023
Richcroft Foundation Inc MD$282,311 Ceo $43,604 $39,495 2024
Northern Illinois Research Foundation IL$266,075 President $61,049 $56,649 2025
Game Changing Men Inc GA$288,569 President & Ceo $40,626 $39,576 2024
Etcf Support Foundation TX$289,181 President $5,992 $5,979 2023
Hillcrest Healthcare Foundation TN$292,853 President $10,586 $10,781 2024
Real Estate Charitable Foundation MO$294,355 Executive Director $38,697 $39,709 2024
Fairfield Public Library IA$256,196 Vice-preside $14,217 $15,082 2024
Franklin County Foster Closet MO$297,686 President $38,500 $39,507 2024
Spencer Wilson Charitable Trust WY$300,545 Trustee $108,000 $112,044 2024
Peter And Julie Stott Foundation OR$251,400 Assistant Treasurer $75,412 $69,853 2023
Healthy Brighton Title Holding IL$247,279 President $9,452 $9,003 2024
Ach Landowner TX$308,576 Ceo $25,128 $25,072 2023
Stand Together Foundation Inc WI$242,619 Director/senior Vp - Community Impact $4,819 $4,876 2024
Marjorie M & Lawrence R Bradley Endowment Fund NC$318,157 President & Ceo $40,250 $40,293 2024
Avon Education Foundation IN$231,119 Executive Dir. $55,000 $56,193 2024
Cape Cod Tech Foundation Inc MA$230,754 Clerk/execut $27,000 $22,901 2025
Northcrest Foundation IA$228,134 Ceo $12,284 $13,416 2023
Richman Family Foundation Inc MD$225,830 President & Public Director $44,135 $41,157 2023
St John's Community Services Foundation DC$329,005 President & Ceo $87,229 $74,160 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 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 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 default47th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)46th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted0th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted72nd

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 (Dorothy Benyas) 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 57 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (T11), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $26,189 is reasonable (approximately the 47th 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.