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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Lyon County Historical Society

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 411774342
MN · NTEE W99
FY ending 2023-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Jennifer Andries, Executive Director / CEO ($41,709) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 48 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: Jennifer Andries — reported title “EXECUTIVE DI”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

48 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 48 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$203 total compensation of comparable organizations → $220,267 $41,709
$7,79710th
$14,39925th
$48,492Median
$73,79575th
$107,73590th
$41,709This org · 46th
p10$7,797
p25$14,399
p50$48,492
p75$73,795
p90$107,735
$41,709

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 MN 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
Civic Momentum MN$200,628 Director, Ceo, And Coo $70,000 $70,000 2023
Main Line Cycle Center MN$194,224 Executive Director $35,984 $35,984 2023
Allied Communities Of Tulsa Inspiring OK$201,803 Senior Organizer $71,500 $79,678 2023
Great Bend Center For Music WA$202,114 Director $56,250 $50,967 2023
21st Century Alliance CA$191,034 Executive Director $252,054 $220,267 2023
Pasos For Oak Cliff TX$204,656 Executive Director $1,044 $1,057 2023
Mashup Nashville TN$205,448 Chief Executive Officer $18,960 $20,169 2023
The Steel Horse Rally Inc AR$205,571 President $145,333 $160,583 2024
New Americans Initiative KY$207,754 Director Of Operations $99,680 $105,272 2024
The South County News MI$207,769 President $14,245 $14,453 2024
Values To Action OR$208,951 Trustee $15,593 $14,235 2024
Arise & Go CA$211,406 President $79,793 $67,730 2024
Through The Trees NC$183,310 Executive Di $27,388 $27,818 2024
Sandy Springs Arts Foundation Inc GA$212,856 Foundation Mgr. $85,000 $84,012 2024
Grandmother Collective Inc MA$181,647 Executive Director $80,557 $71,159 2024
Barrios Unidos NM$179,237 President And Executive Director $39,670 $43,181 2023
People Matter IL$216,495 Co-president $58,880 $55,435 2025
Celebrate Me Week MN$217,117 Camp Administrator $10,897 $10,897 2023
Crockett Mission TN$218,254 Ceo $8,250 $8,776 2023
Nine Muses Foundation NY$220,069 Executive Director $157,199 $143,758 2023
Banda Health TX$221,053 President $69,048 $67,895 2024
Rhode Island Coalition For Children & Families Education Fund Inc RI$224,854 Executive Director $96,121 $90,601 2024
The Pilcrow Foundation OR$225,026 President $56,250 $52,865 2023
Wyoming Family Alliance WY$165,943 Ceo/executive Director $34,489 $36,304 2024
Aranya Solutions MT$230,397 President $12,000 $13,091 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to MN cost of living and 2023 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 MN 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)48th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted46th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted42nd

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 (Jennifer Andries) 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 48 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (W99), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $41,709 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.