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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Ethos Literacy

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 412235848
NM · NTEE B60
FY ending 2024-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Esodie Gieger, Executive Director / CEO ($63,000) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 122 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 64th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Esodie Gieger — reported title “EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

122 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 122 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$241 total compensation of comparable organizations → $240,529 $63,000
$14,28910th
$27,32725th
$50,707Median
$70,82075th
$87,59790th
$63,000This org · 64th
p10$14,289
p25$27,327
p50$50,707
p75$70,820
p90$87,597
$63,000

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 NM 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
Leadership Kauai HI$226,010 Executive Dir. $70,000 $59,990 2023
Destiny Builders Inc OK$228,764 President $87,000 $89,069 2024
National Hbcu Business Deans Roundtable Inc NC$225,337 Managing Director $36,000 $35,606 2023
New York State Care Management NY$225,135 Executive Director $68,250 $57,340 2024
Remarkable Mens Practice CA$224,685 President $10,387 $8,586 2023
Skyline Agility Club Inc NY$229,644 Former President $8,750 $7,351 2024
The William And Lanaea C Featherstone MD$224,131 Founder $30,000 $26,847 2023
Minnesota Teachers Of English To Speakers Of Other Languages MN$231,475 Executive Assistant $15,450 $14,194 2024
Growing Oaks Association OK$232,819 Secretarytreasurer $73,000 $74,736 2024
The Reliance College Fund IL$221,037 Pres./treas. $88,008 $80,444 2024
Literacy Volunteers Of Broome-tioga NY$233,980 Executive Director $49,448 $40,472 2025
Kenosha Literacy Council WI$234,765 Executive Dir. $54,654 $51,701 2025
Iuoe Local 891 Education & Training Fund NY$218,825 Trustee $7,262 $6,281 2023
Columbia Bartending Agency Incorporated NY$218,310 Executive Director $7,120 $5,827 2025
National Coalition For Dialogue & Deliberation PA$236,025 Executive Director $16,800 $16,036 2023
True Initiative HI$217,550 Ed To 12/24 $79,935 $66,539 2024
Collaborative Law Institute Of Texas TX$237,143 Exec Director $76,546 $73,294 2023
Gull Island Institute Inc MA$237,443 Clerk $41,600 $34,756 2024
Health-care Education And Living In Poverty DC$216,000 President/ceo $80,000 $65,271 2024
Midcoast Literacy ME$239,926 Executive Director $42,498 $39,566 2024
Someone Who Cares Community Ce GA$213,323 President $6,560 $6,133 2024
Leadership Kitsap Foundation WA$213,097 Executive Director $85,250 $70,963 2024
Achieving Success On Purpose Inc NC$211,283 Executive Director $25,354 $25,077 2023
Mission Milby Community Development Corporation TX$210,845 Executive Director $130,000 $120,905 2024
Lawrence Funderburke Youth OH$210,661 President $98,500 $96,998 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to NM 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 NM 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 default64th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)60th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted68th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted56th

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 (Esodie Gieger) 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 122 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (B60), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $63,000 is reasonable (approximately the 64th 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.