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

American-russian Educational Center Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 541784559
DC · NTEE A74Z
FY ending 2025-05-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Nathalie Mcgregor, Executive Director / CEO ($36,000) against the 2000 closest of 2,999 comparable organizations — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 31st percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

2,999 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 2,000 within the band form the benchmarked peer set (closest by budget).

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1 total compensation of comparable organizations → $265,908 $36,000
$11,43910th
$29,97925th
$54,026Median
$75,15275th
$97,09590th
$36,000This org · 31st
p10$11,439
p25$29,979
p50$54,026
p75$75,152
p90$97,095
$36,000

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 DC 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
The Waterfront Museum NY$300,796 President $89,524 $94,626 2024
Georgia Metropolitan Dance Theatre Inc GA$300,798 Artistic Director $19,456 $23,559 2023
Bloomington Creative Glass Center Inc IN$300,843 President $23,404 $29,723 2023
North Dakota Bar Foundation Inc ND$300,885 Secretary/treasurer $37,378 $47,980 2024
Stay Arts CA$300,980 Executive Director $35,229 $36,634 2023
Vivo Youth Orchestras CA$300,586 President/executive Director $88,200 $91,718 2023
Highlands Historical Society PA$301,090 Executive Director $58,333 $70,054 2023
Summertime Gallery Inc NY$300,481 Gallery Director $51,154 $55,666 2023
City Strings United Inc MA$301,126 President $72,220 $78,154 2023
Integrity Dance Center Inc FL$300,434 President $26,739 $30,250 2023
Balkan Cultural Center CA$301,138 President $22,000 $22,877 2023
New Expressive Works OR$300,355 Executive Director & Board Chair $34,100 $37,041 2024
Buffalo Institute For Contemporary Art NY$301,221 Part Time Executive Director $12,000 $13,058 2023
Misalignment Museum CA$301,278 Executive Dir. $195,833 $197,801 2024
The Queer Big Apple Corps Inc NY$300,245 Executive Director $101,621 $110,585 2023
Christian Media Inc NE$300,084 General Director $49,044 $63,525 2023
Old Mill Foundation CA$301,525 Executive Dir. $60,000 $60,603 2024
Walton Arts Center Foundation Inc AR$301,624 Ceo/president $35,197 $46,277 2024
Cuyahoga Valley Art Center OH$299,875 Executive Di $77,895 $96,505 2024
Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre IL$299,861 Artistic Dir. $44,604 $49,971 2025
Watsonville Film Festival CA$301,726 Executive Dir. $72,000 $72,724 2024
Franklin Opera House Inc NH$301,823 Executive Director $29,120 $30,641 2025
Larimer Choral Society CO$299,706 Executive Di $28,750 $31,415 2025
Warehouse Theatre Company WA$299,704 Executive Director $14,997 $15,301 2025
Bisbee Council On The Arts And Humanities AZ$299,682 Museum Director $70,167 $81,265 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to DC cost of living and 2025 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 DC 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 default31st
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)36th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted32nd
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted29th

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 (Nathalie Mcgregor) 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 2000 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (A), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $36,000 is reasonable (approximately the 31st 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.