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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Mycoses Study Group Education And

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 464283467
AL · NTEE H05
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Carolynn Thomas Jones, Executive Director / CEO ($26,400) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 148 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 16th percentile of comparable organizationsbelow the typical range for comparable organizations

Benchmarked executive: Carolynn Thomas Jones — reported title “EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (NON-VO”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

148 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 148 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$396 total compensation of comparable organizations → $439,461 $26,400
$22,38410th
$40,37725th
$68,102Median
$103,59475th
$161,28690th
$26,400This org · 16th
p10$22,384
p25$40,377
p50$68,102
p75$103,594
p90$161,286
$26,400

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 AL 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
Cancollaborate Inc MA$471,902 President $52,083 $44,602 2023
The Myocarditis Foundation TX$468,356 Executive Director $107,000 $99,074 2024
Autism Tree Project Inc CA$477,889 Executive Dir. $90,000 $71,936 2024
Global Vitiligo Foundation PA$478,511 Executive Director $83,694 $79,538 2023
St Louis Life Sciences Project MO$479,877 President/secretary/treasu $201,834 $203,722 2023
Dorn Research Institute Inc SC$460,393 Executive Di $125,000 $120,708 2024
Odylia Therapeutics Inc GA$482,047 Ceo/cso $225,220 $209,615 2024
Parkinson Association Of NC$482,140 Executive Dir. $78,138 $74,733 2024
American Cochlear Implant Alliance VA$483,427 Executive Director $201,375 $179,978 2024
Massachusetts Society For MA$457,668 President $121,978 $104,457 2023
American Board Of Medical Specialties IL$484,417 President & Ceo $114,596 $107,364 2023
American Society For Metabolic And FL$455,062 Dir/exec Dir '24 $47,782 $41,550 2024
Central New York Lyme And NY$486,936 Executive Director $107,120 $89,599 2024
Academy For Health & Lifespan NY$454,339 Executive Dir. $60,927 $52,467 2023
Tom Slick Memorial Trust For Sw TX$487,198 President & Ceo $65,374 $62,319 2023
Minkoff Center For Jewish Genetics AZ$453,924 Executive Director $132,870 $118,282 2024
North Carolina Association For NC$487,929 President $145,846 $139,491 2024
Knox Martin Foundation GA$488,266 President/ce $90,000 $86,238 2023
Neurofibromatosis Network IL$452,414 Executive Di $104,158 $94,785 2024
Behavioral Diabetes Institute CA$450,812 Director $222,395 $177,758 2024
Jayden Deluca Foundation Inc ID$492,957 Executive Director $28,300 $28,690 2023
Dubai Harvard Foundation For MA$447,941 Executive Director $69,603 $59,605 2023
Veterans Research & Education OK$493,862 Executive Di $51,364 $52,353 2024
Justin Parker Neurological Institute CO$444,788 Director Of Research $179,938 $159,708 2024
Gootter-jensen Foundation AZ$439,555 Vice President $6,000 $5,341 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to AL 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 AL 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 default16th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)11th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted23rd
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted12th

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 (Carolynn Thomas Jones) 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 148 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (H), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $26,400 is reasonable (approximately the 16th 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.