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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Exhale Women's Fellowship

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 461390755
NJ · NTEE L21
FY ending 2023-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Carol Clark, Executive Director / CEO ($19,200) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 193 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 20th percentile of comparable organizationsbelow the typical range for comparable organizations

Benchmarked executive: Carol Clark — reported title “EXECUTIVE DI”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

193 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 193 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$85 total compensation of comparable organizations → $188,338 $19,200
$8,08610th
$23,38925th
$40,606Median
$58,50175th
$82,86190th
$19,200This org · 20th
p10$8,086
p25$23,389
p50$40,606
p75$58,501
p90$82,861
$19,200

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 NJ 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
Spiti Housing Development Fund NY$309,417 Executive Director $24,759 $24,340 2024
River Grove Retirement Community Inc MI$310,149 President & Ceo $31,878 $36,853 2023
Tg 301 Inc TX$311,505 Executive Director $20,876 $23,389 2023
Keystone Development Inc TN$312,151 Executive Director $24,097 $27,556 2024
Independent Living Horizons Eight Inc GA$312,750 President/ceo $21,151 $23,819 2023
Roxbury Development Corporation MA$313,126 Director $4,247 $4,152 2024
Lancaster Housing Development Fund NY$313,548 Board Member/board President $25,080 $25,383 2023
Wider Path Home Foundation RI$313,582 Director (Jan-july); President (July-dec) $46,354 $48,354 2024
Snhs North Berwick Elderly Housing Inc NH$314,200 Treasurer $53,564 $52,419 2025
Culver City Rotary Plaza Inc CA$315,455 President/ceo $68,128 $63,999 2024
Greencastle Of Allerton IL$301,241 President & Ceo $50,615 $54,134 2024
Mike Foyes Homes Inc WA$301,198 President $22,967 $22,370 2024
South Lake Tahoe Supportive Housing MN$298,799 President $65,715 $72,727 2023
Los Robles Apartments Inc CA$319,840 Secretary $52,496 $49,314 2024
Bethany House Of Cumberland County PA$297,673 Executive Di $50,000 $55,846 2023
Partnership Housing Of Southwest Alabama AL$296,079 Executive Director $30,333 $36,703 2023
Alpha Properties Inc IN$322,189 Executive Director $1,800 $2,065 2024
Mcpherson Voa Elderly Housing Inc VA$322,828 President $183,373 $187,651 2025
Great Falls Elderly Housing Inc MN$323,409 President/tr $65,715 $70,641 2024
Lytle Trace Inc OH$293,086 Chief Executive Officer $8,517 $9,814 2024
Amber Village Housing Corporation KY$327,037 Exec Director, Secretary, Treasurer $15,600 $18,233 2024
Eliza Johnson Center For The Aging TX$289,575 Chairman $1,200 $1,344 2023
Nu-dimensions-west Hickory Inc NC$328,865 Ceo $17,706 $20,491 2023
Redmond Elderly Housing Association WA$288,174 President Of Ccs/chs & Ex-officio $47,074 $47,204 2023
Naomi WA$287,698 Executive Di $70,723 $68,884 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to NJ 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 NJ 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 default20th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)23rd
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted86th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted2nd

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 (Carol Clark) 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 193 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (L21), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $19,200 is reasonable (approximately the 20th 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.