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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Birthright Africa Incorporated

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 474649952
NY · NTEE Q20
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 13, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Walla Elsheikh, Executive Director / CEO ($26,207) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 58 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 48th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

58 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 58 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$100 total compensation of comparable organizations → $172,962 $26,207
$3,25410th
$13,14325th
$28,231Median
$49,90575th
$81,59890th
$26,207This org · 48th
p10$3,254
p25$13,143
p50$28,231
p75$49,905
p90$81,598
$26,207

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 NY 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
Thomas Merton Center Inc PA$75,200 Executive Director $46,848 $50,368 2025
Caribbean Resource Ministries MS$72,845 Exe Director $23,004 $29,190 2023
Global Gifts Inc IN$80,332 Former Exe Dir $37,500 $45,057 2023
Fountain Of Christ Ministries FL$80,969 Vice President $6,000 $6,238 2024
Global Solidarity Fund DC$68,907 President & Director $49,959 $48,516 2024
Creative Armenia CA$82,461 President $48,750 $46,585 2024
Los Medicos Voladores CA$68,270 Treasurer $19,774 $18,409 2025
Redwoods Global Missions Inc FL$82,758 President $18,500 $19,233 2024
Cambodian Outreach Project CO$67,818 Director $14,700 $15,599 2024
The Grace Children's Foundation NY$67,416 President & Ceo $40,000 $40,000 2024
Advance Access And Delivery Inc NC$83,613 Executive Di $54,406 $62,211 2024
Foundation Ministries Inc OH$66,635 Treasurer/secretary $2,400 $2,813 2024
Iron Kite International NC$84,586 President $67,500 $79,464 2023
The Lambi Fund Of Haiti DC$84,704 Executive Director $13,189 $12,808 2024
Edens Song Ministry Inc ID$65,239 President $22,500 $27,271 2023
Latin America Working Group Education Fund DC$85,653 Co-director $61,554 $61,542 2023
Nigerian American Multicultural Center Namc Inc TX$85,907 Admin Manager $2,436 $2,776 2023
Mapendo Inc FL$86,420 Treasurer/secr $1,200 $1,248 2024
Physicians For Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter CA$63,872 Executive Director $17,309 $16,540 2024
Compassion Corps PA$62,343 Executive Director $16,500 $18,209 2024
Project Hope Ministries MI$88,878 Co-executive Director $12,000 $13,354 2025
Nk Missions Inc VA$89,521 Secretary $66,396 $73,041 2023
Project Vic International Inc NJ$89,852 President $71,799 $73,038 2023
Health Access Connect Usa Inc FL$89,914 Executive Director $18,000 $18,713 2024
Ghanaian Mother's Hope Inc FL$60,932 President/treasurer $2,600 $2,703 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to NY 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 NY 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 default48th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)52nd
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted53rd
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted48th

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 (Walla Elsheikh) 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 13, 2026, comparing compensation against 58 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (Q), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $26,207 is reasonable (approximately the 48th 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 13, 2026.