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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Welcome Home Montrose Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 454103919
CO · NTEE P99
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of April Heard, Executive Director / CEO ($41,500) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 137 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 38th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

137 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 137 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$825 total compensation of comparable organizations → $187,778 $41,500
$13,22110th
$30,59425th
$52,924Median
$77,51175th
$94,74390th
$41,500This org · 38th
p10$13,221
p25$30,594
p50$52,924
p75$77,511
p90$94,743
$41,500

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 CO 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
Refuge Widowers Inc GA$229,326 Founder/ceo $91,567 $96,018 2024
Extended Family AL$230,175 Executive Director $39,646 $44,668 2024
The More We Love WA$226,863 Executive Director $59,918 $55,946 2024
Center For African Health And Education OR$226,533 President $40,840 $39,553 2024
Merrimack Valley Dream Center Inc MA$226,466 President And Execuitve Director $13,000 $12,183 2024
Kids In Crisis Intervention Team IN$225,640 Executive Director (Part Year) $31,806 $36,012 2023
Desert Sol Inc AZ$232,668 President/ceo $3,000 $3,009 2024
Northside Mennonite Child Care OH$225,537 Director $34,876 $39,661 2023
Mount Olives Community Center Inc MA$233,125 President $15,735 $15,182 2023
Ride For Joy ID$224,899 Executive Dir. $62,969 $69,858 2024
The Common Good Soup Kitchen Community ME$224,422 Executive Director $45,000 $46,993 2024
Little Wish Foundation Inc IN$224,381 President/ce $77,896 $88,199 2023
Crack House Ministries OH$234,126 President $78,230 $88,964 2023
Clothe Your Neighbor As Yourself In FL$223,988 President / $60,019 $60,538 2023
Victory Hill Therapeutic Horsmanship Inc NY$223,843 Director $850 $825 2023
Santa Fe Community Yoga Center NM$223,444 Executive Director $42,151 $48,676 2023
Seeds Of Harmony Inc AZ$237,318 Executive Dir. $56,791 $56,960 2024
Your Hometown Heroes Inc IN$220,770 President $95,271 $107,872 2023
Communities United For Action OH$237,858 Executive Director $77,297 $85,380 2024
Field Of Dreams Inc CA$238,158 Secretary $30,150 $27,151 2024
Victoria's Friends Inc GA$220,055 Ceo/president $55,071 $57,748 2024
Info For Families Inc GA$238,935 President $161,548 $169,400 2024
Webster Hope Inc NY$219,053 Director $54,183 $51,061 2024
Our Daily Bread Foundation NC$218,978 Executive Dir. $9,996 $10,771 2024
El Sistema Usa NC$240,424 Executive Director $95,000 $105,394 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to CO 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 CO 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 default38th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)41st
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted40th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted34th

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 (April Heard) 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 137 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (P99), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $41,500 is reasonable (approximately the 38th 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.