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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

The Green Urban Lunch Box

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 454320152
UT · NTEE C42
FY ending 2023-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Adele Pincock, Executive Director / CEO ($46,875) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 602 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 41st percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Adele Pincock — reported title “Executive Director March 2023 - December 2023”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

602 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 602 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$490 total compensation of comparable organizations → $391,898 $46,875
$11,51310th
$31,15225th
$54,943Median
$74,34675th
$100,66590th
$46,875This org · 41st
p10$11,513
p25$31,152
p50$54,943
p75$74,346
p90$100,665
$46,875

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 UT 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
Live Green Connecticut Inc CT$260,833 President $137,500 $125,964 2023
The Nature Of Wildworks CA$260,945 Executive Di $66,092 $54,162 2024
People & Plants International Inc VT$261,027 Co-director $93,000 $88,836 2024
Forest And Woodland Association Of Missouri MO$260,581 Executive Director $48,505 $47,499 2025
Bella Vista Recycling Foundation AR$261,197 Director $43,400 $47,665 2023
Friends Of Huddart & Wunderlich Parks CA$260,144 Program Director $75,000 $59,877 2025
Blue Ridge Prism Inc VA$261,741 Former Executive Director $66,694 $61,114 2024
Land Conservation Foundation IL$262,318 Executive Director $36,511 $34,066 2024
Bear Lake Watch UT$259,252 Past Exec. Dir. $37,912 $37,912 2023
Virginias United Land Trusts VA$259,231 Executive Dir. $98,537 $87,965 2025
Southeast Michigan Land Conservancy MI$262,599 Executive Director $88,281 $89,031 2023
Cwmu Association UT$259,051 Secretary $5,000 $5,000 2023
Wareham Land Trust Inc MA$262,864 Executive Dir. $47,878 $42,037 2023
Coast Ridge Community Forest CA$258,775 Executive Dir. $16,465 $13,891 2023
Land Trust Of The Treasure Valley ID$263,019 Executive Director (1 Month) $84,000 $87,309 2023
Sustainable Contra Costa CA$258,679 Ceo $34,425 $29,044 2023
Greater Oregon City Watershed Council OR$263,413 Executive Dir. $78,680 $69,343 2024
Resource Protection Group Inc VA$258,063 Secretary/tr $7,500 $6,873 2024
Beyond Our Shores Inc RI$263,786 President $73,150 $68,533 2023
Kanu Hawaii HI$257,751 Executive Director $64,996 $55,225 2024
The Greenwich Tree Conservancy Inc CT$264,196 Executive Director $54,590 $50,010 2023
Amos A Mid-iowa Organizing Strategy IA$257,465 Lead Organizer $111,772 $113,152 2025
Kahaluu Kuahewa HI$264,425 Executive Di $57,793 $49,105 2024
Jones River Watershed Associnc MA$264,493 Exec. Dir. $60,000 $51,169 2024
Community Climate Solutions CA$257,065 President And Program Manager $89,625 $71,554 2025

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to UT 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 UT 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 default41st
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)38th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted43rd
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted39th

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 (Adele Pincock) 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 602 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (C), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $46,875 is reasonable (approximately the 41st 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.