Live preview — download the board-ready PDF to attach to your minutes.Download the free PDF
Email yourself a copy:
PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Leading Saints

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 474235935
UT · NTEE X19
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Kurt Francom, Executive Director / CEO ($101,383) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 38 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 82nd percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Kurt Francom — reported title “Executive Director”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

38 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 38 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$979 total compensation of comparable organizations → $250,102 $101,383
$20,07210th
$32,08925th
$61,726Median
$84,89475th
$124,77090th
$101,383This org · 82nd
p10$20,072
p25$32,089
p50$61,726
p75$84,894
p90$124,770
$101,383

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 UT 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
Ebecc Library Inc MA$259,122 Treasurer $34,379 $30,185 2024
Straightway Holdings Inc MO$260,017 President & Treasurer $89,114 $92,220 2024
Healthy Growing Leaders Inc SC$241,865 Chairman $94,500 $99,170 2023
Global Encounters Missions CA$232,377 Executive Di $51,440 $43,400 2024
Madonna Renewal Center IL$271,687 Exec Directo $18,000 $17,290 2024
The Rock Campus Outreach TN$271,933 President & Executive Director $103,846 $106,653 2024
Unity Temple Restoration Foundation IL$230,930 Executive Director $207,500 $199,317 2024
Star Lake Bible Camp Assn MN$229,531 Camp Directo $62,853 $60,681 2024
Impact For Living Inc FL$275,985 President / Director $161,696 $148,417 2024
Salt & Light Partners MN$226,459 Excutive Director $67,392 $66,986 2023
Trinity Roselle Foundation IL$277,146 President And Director $71,411 $70,621 2023
Hamilton Living Water Ministry Inc OH$222,466 Exec. Direct $48,846 $50,549 2024
Gaston Christian Center TX$281,468 Executive Director $74,908 $71,325 2025
Biblical Counseling Coalition Inc IN$287,638 Exec. Direct $71,524 $73,696 2024
Lightsys Technology Services Inc CO$288,665 President/ceo And Board Member $78,440 $73,489 2024
Training Pastors International VA$208,323 President, C $122,634 $119,109 2023
Restoration Ministries MN$206,537 Executive Di $72,000 $69,512 2024
Barnabas Ministries Inc MA$296,825 Executive Director $45,217 $38,677 2025
Awaken Hearts NE$204,190 President $24,022 $25,244 2024
National Latino Evangelical Coalition Inc FL$203,313 President $40,000 $37,799 2023
The Redimere Group CO$203,090 President $143,049 $137,979 2023
Love Inc Of Linn County OR$200,186 Executive Director $22,438 $21,820 2022
Gospel Care Ministry Inc KY$199,177 President $15,600 $16,376 2024
Reaching Mankind For Christ Ministries CA$188,603 Secretary $4,777 $4,030 2024
Mark Purkey Ministries Inc OK$187,072 President $100,000 $110,766 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to UT 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 UT 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 default82nd
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)84th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted89th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted74th

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 (Kurt Francom) 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 38 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (X19), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $101,383 is reasonable (approximately the 82nd 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.