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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Gakko Hojin Tokai Daigaku

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 521690609
HI · NTEE B40
FY ending 2024-03-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Oyama Seiko, Executive Director / CEO ($9,380) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 1540 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 11th percentile of comparable organizationsbelow the typical range for comparable organizations

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

How comparable organizations were selected

1,540 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 1,540 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1 total compensation of comparable organizations → $492,874 $9,380
$8,72110th
$22,82625th
$45,919Median
$69,40675th
$98,95590th
$9,380This org · 11th
p10$8,721
p25$22,826
p50$45,919
p75$69,406
p90$98,955
$9,380

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 HI 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
Professional Learning Us Inc NY$173,772 Chief Executive $40,000 $40,372 2024
The Home Team - Miami Inc FL$173,584 Director $79,425 $83,339 2024
Camden Schools Foundation NJ$173,544 Vice President $16,500 $16,455 2024
The Greenhouse Schoolinc MA$173,484 Executive Di $6,300 $6,510 2023
St Paul's Church Nursery School Inc MA$173,456 Executive Director & Head Teacher $73,987 $74,261 2024
Independent Television Festival Inc MN$174,027 Ceo/executive Director $16,667 $18,938 2023
Njecc Inc NJ$173,243 President $24,368 $23,675 2025
Valley Academy For The Arts Inc WI$174,214 Executive Di $12,000 $14,411 2023
Northwest Pbis Network Inc OR$173,146 Executive Director $146,743 $156,705 2023
Music Youth Partnership Foundation KS$173,124 Executive Director $9,750 $11,462 2025
Every Child Can Read Inc IN$172,840 Executive Director $4,161 $4,901 2024
Termite Tv Collective Inc PA$174,545 President $10,000 $11,467 2023
Madison Automotive Apprentices Inc VA$174,610 Executive Director $56,883 $61,346 2024
Tuskegee Human & Civil Rights AL$174,642 Man. Director $68,399 $84,972 2023
Los Medanos College Foundation CA$174,647 Director - Lmc President (July -Dec) $25,994 $25,811 2023
100 Black Men Of Savannah Inc GA$172,717 Executive Di $15,302 $17,693 2023
National Association Of Publicly Funded PA$174,914 Executive Director $30,780 $34,284 2024
American Association For Employment In AZ$174,914 Executive Director $36,923 $38,639 2025
Jewels Academy IA$174,974 President $39,582 $48,408 2024
Rising Movement NC$175,000 Executive Director $47,281 $56,179 2023
Afara Governance Inc NC$175,000 Ceo $118,835 $141,197 2023
Tennessee Advocates For Planned TN$175,276 Executive Di $95,771 $112,440 2024
Philadelphia Furniture Workshop PA$175,298 Executive Director $79,190 $88,205 2024
Friends Of Upland Choral Music CA$172,068 Treasurer $7,200 $6,765 2025
California Technical Assistance Center CA$175,447 Ceo-president $46,780 $45,118 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to HI 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 HI 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 default11th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)11th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted0th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted76th

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 (Oyama Seiko) 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 1540 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (B), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $9,380 is reasonable (approximately the 11th 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.