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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Mission Starfish Haiti

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 463038845
IA · NTEE B122
FY ending 2023-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Silentor Esthil-henderson, Executive Director / CEO ($36,000) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 583 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 62nd percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Silentor Esthil-henderson — reported title “Director”, selected as the organization's highest-paid individual — no exact title match, so confirm this is a comparable role.

How comparable organizations were selected

583 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 583 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1 total compensation of comparable organizations → $391,450 $36,000
$4,34110th
$11,52925th
$26,191Median
$47,99175th
$70,57490th
$36,000This org · 62nd
p10$4,341
p25$11,529
p50$26,191
p75$47,991
p90$70,574
$36,000

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 IA 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
Vermillion Bend Academy LA$106,432 Director $7,608 $7,432 2024
Quad County African American IL$106,597 Chairman $9,000 $8,081 2023
Troup County College & Career GA$106,354 Ceo $137,034 $125,839 2023
Teachmeducation Group Inc NY$106,707 Executive Di $38,542 $30,895 2024
New Horizon Academy For Exceptional Studentsinc FL$106,713 President $28,206 $24,200 2023
The Sumner G Rand Jr Foundation FL$106,782 President $87,076 $70,695 2025
National Best Practices Conference Inc TX$106,980 Executive Director $45,500 $40,376 2024
American College Of Sports Medicine IN$106,033 Ceo & Secretary $20,396 $19,644 2023
Totally Local Vc Agricultural Education Foundation CA$106,012 President, Treasurer, Director $19,000 $14,554 2024
Bucyrus Redmen Athletic Boosters OH$105,936 Vice Preside $4,000 $3,758 2024
The Education Policy And Leadership Center PA$105,933 Executive Director $15,000 $13,270 2024
Pope John Xxiii Endowment Fund Inc NJ$105,895 Executive Director $49,255 $40,164 2023
The Human Potential Center TX$107,137 Executive Director $4,244 $3,877 2023
Osu Animal Science Alumni Association OK$105,770 Executive Secretary $12,000 $11,722 2024
North Dakota Farm Bureau Foundation ND$105,298 Sec-treas/executive Vp/ceo $69,187 $67,354 2024
Greater Madison Chamber Of Commerce WI$107,750 President $26,461 $24,515 2024
Foundation For Independence Through SC$107,755 Director $64,775 $61,717 2023
Ghes Building Company MN$107,956 Board Chair $5,654 $5,102 2023
Oelc At Kennedy Qalicb NE$108,000 Educare Of Omaha Executive Director $15,345 $14,641 2024
Advanced Nuclear Weapons Alliance VA$105,000 Director $28,000 $23,983 2024
Timothy Christian Schools Foundation IL$108,087 Secretary $39,775 $35,713 2023
Confrerie De La Chaine Des Rotisseurs NJ$108,104 Executive Director $16,971 $13,441 2024
Mosaic Housing Corp Xxii - Logan NE$108,255 President $26,896 $25,662 2024
Southern Connecticut Chinese School Inc CT$104,753 Principal $4,800 $3,992 2024
The Xanderena Foundation IL$108,315 Treasurer $4,400 $3,951 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to IA 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 IA 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 default62nd
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)57th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted74th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted50th

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 (Silentor Esthil-henderson) 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 583 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (B), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $36,000 is reasonable (approximately the 62nd 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.