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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Recovery Alliance Of Austin

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 461375930
TX · NTEE I19
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Harriet Mitchell, Executive Director / CEO ($59,675) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 536 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 37th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Harriet Mitchell — reported title “EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - UNTIL OCTOBER 2024”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

536 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 536 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$216 total compensation of comparable organizations → $406,703 $59,675
$28,91610th
$48,77825th
$69,492Median
$92,13675th
$114,64490th
$59,675This org · 37th
p10$28,916
p25$48,778
p50$69,492
p75$92,136
p90$114,644
$59,675

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 TX 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
Collective Climb PA$388,511 Executive Director $69,713 $69,498 2024
North Coast Drivers Inc CA$388,363 Ceo $41,531 $35,851 2024
Neighborhood Legal Support Of Kansas City MO$390,055 Executive Director $98,099 $103,870 2024
Headwaters At Incarnate Word Inc TX$390,236 Executive Dir. $77,000 $77,000 2024
100 E 182nd Street Housing NY$387,966 Treasurer/secretary $44,892 $40,553 2024
Court Appointed Special Advocates TX$387,568 Executive Di $66,867 $66,867 2024
The Fathers House AR$390,950 Executive Director $31,958 $36,972 2023
The Childrens Law Project Of Hawaii HI$391,252 Executive Director $46,565 $41,677 2024
Oklahoma Access To Justice Foundation OK$387,073 Executive Director $78,869 $86,818 2024
West Florida Center For Trafficking Advocacy Inc FL$391,812 Director $94,765 $88,997 2024
Building Hope Today Inc ID$386,410 Executive Dir. $98,917 $105,194 2024
Alliance For Freedom Restoration And TN$392,338 Cfo $11,000 $11,559 2024
Radkids Inc NC$385,662 Executive Di $96,000 $102,092 2023
Legal Works Inc OH$385,248 Non Voting M $94,000 $102,470 2023
The Association Of The Federal Bar Of The State Of New Jersey NJ$384,805 Executive Director $64,700 $56,260 2025
Asservo Project Inc PA$393,666 Chairman Exec Dir $120,000 $119,631 2024
Rescuing Hope Inc GA$393,714 Executive Dir. $41,650 $41,865 2024
No More Tears Inc CA$394,088 President $68,144 $60,562 2023
Frederick Douglass Project For DC$394,369 President $45,292 $39,733 2024
Wilmington Youth Rowing Association DE$383,901 Executive Director $34,842 $34,105 2024
Court Referral Services AL$383,578 Director $47,535 $51,338 2024
Healthy Kids A Family Resource Network ME$395,444 Executive Director $71,352 $71,425 2024
Megan Montgomery Foundation To Prevent Domestic Violence Inc AL$395,455 Executive Director $24,846 $27,626 2023
Native American Reentry Services WA$395,754 Executive Director $60,000 $55,288 2023
Peacemaker Resources MN$395,842 Executive Di $45,446 $46,217 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to TX 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 TX 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 default37th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)35th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted38th
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 (Harriet Mitchell) 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 536 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (I), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $59,675 is reasonable (approximately the 37th 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.