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Compensation Comparability Determination

Chicago Parks Foundation

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 454866050
IL · NTEE N11
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Willa Lang, Executive Director / CEO ($257,496) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 388 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 87th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

388 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 388 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$884 total compensation of comparable organizations → $812,181 $257,496
$82,52910th
$124,89925th
$165,306Median
$217,73775th
$282,24890th
$257,496This org · 87th
p10$82,529
p25$124,899
p50$165,306
p75$217,737
p90$282,248
$257,496

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 IL 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
Huron Mountain Club MI$4,904,249 General Mana $148,022 $155,407 2024
Bmw Car Club Of America Inc SC$4,904,797 Executive Director $217,387 $230,682 2024
Austin Golf Club TX$4,899,759 General Manager $183,614 $192,343 2023
Colorado Soccer Association CO$4,909,737 Ceo $189,665 $184,989 2024
Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation Inc TX$4,894,435 Co-president National Director $113,828 $115,819 2024
🔒 383 more comparable organizations — included in the purchased report

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to IL 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 IL 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 default87th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)86th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted90th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted84th

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:

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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.