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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Backpacks For Life Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 471281873
NJ · NTEE T19
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Alexa D'alessandro, Executive Director / CEO ($40,000) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 792 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 33rd percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Alexa D'alessandro — reported title “Exec. Director”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

792 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 792 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$23 total compensation of comparable organizations → $1,889,676 $40,000
$12,95710th
$30,27125th
$57,978Median
$88,18775th
$118,48190th
$40,000This org · 33rd
p10$12,957
p25$30,271
p50$57,978
p75$88,187
p90$118,481
$40,000

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 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
Estero Bay Kindness Coalition CA$348,911 President $67,096 $66,808 2023
The School Foundation Inc SC$348,704 Executive Director $76,331 $89,189 2024
The Wanderer Family Foundation NY$350,000 Trustee $69,484 $72,400 2023
Arkansas Methodist Medical Center AR$350,052 Cfo/ceo $18,725 $23,574 2024
Gay For Good CA$348,240 Executive Director $88,535 $83,419 2025
Spur Inc MA$348,193 Executive Director $70,888 $73,454 2023
College Ministries Of Virginia VA$350,231 Executive Campus Minister $53,506 $59,572 2023
Osprey Village Thrift Stores Llc SC$347,951 Executive Director $1,500 $1,753 2024
Community Foundation Of The Klamath OR$347,880 Executive Director $35,000 $36,404 2024
Nalc Disaster Relief Foundation DC$347,720 President $37,805 $36,199 2025
Goods For Good DC$347,623 Executive Director $35,000 $34,400 2024
United Way Of Oxford & MS$347,526 Executive Di $77,330 $93,977 2025
Historic Paradise Foundation Nfp SC$347,501 Executive Director/vice Chair $92,500 $105,296 2025
The Waterhouse Charitable Trust HI$350,901 Co-trustee $109,480 $113,025 2023
The United Methodist Retirement NC$350,999 Chief Financial Officer $28,807 $33,338 2024
Creatives Want Change Inc NY$351,230 Director Of Programs $72,116 $75,143 2023
Reaching East African Lives For Christ TX$351,244 President $26,055 $29,191 2024
Friends With Benefit Charity Events Inc NC$347,090 Executive Directorboard Member $18,800 $21,757 2024
South Wood County Recreation Center Inc WI$346,935 Treasurer $1,000 $1,170 2024
Hand Up For Women TN$351,607 Executive Director $68,870 $83,475 2023
Punks With Lunch Lansing MI$351,688 Executive Director $51,600 $59,652 2024
Friends Of Mascoma Foundation NH$351,739 Interim Ex Director $46,800 $49,829 2023
Robert B Spencer Foundation NM$351,996 Secretary $32,419 $38,046 2025
Finn's Fighters Inc FL$346,041 President/exec. Dir. $40,778 $42,906 2024
Sav-a-life Of The Mississippi Gulf MS$352,354 Executive Di $50,808 $65,251 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to NJ 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 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 default33rd
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)38th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted44th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted19th

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 (Alexa D'alessandro) 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 792 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (T), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $40,000 is reasonable (approximately the 33rd 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.