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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Cue Art Foundation

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 542064462
NY · NTEE A51
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Jinny Khanduja, Executive Director / CEO ($121,244) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 33 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 97th percentile of comparable organizationsabove the 90th percentile — board review recommended

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

How comparable organizations were selected

33 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 33 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$2,079 total compensation of comparable organizations → $123,031 $121,244
$7,24410th
$31,65525th
$65,549Median
$78,29875th
$93,44390th
$121,244This org · 97th
p10$7,244
p25$31,655
p50$65,549
p75$78,298
p90$93,443
$121,244

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
Trustees Of The Tw Wood Gallery VT$294,965 Executive Director $65,769 $73,258 2024
Journeys In Education Inc NH$293,577 Executive Director $34,692 $35,450 2024
International Art Museum Of America CA$311,017 Director $12,408 $12,207 2023
Liberty Arts Inc NC$281,926 Executive Di $5,250 $6,003 2024
Cedarburg Art Museum & Society Inc WI$280,277 Executive Director $68,199 $78,821 2024
Robert & Ellen Haan Museum Of IN$276,084 Administrati $28,138 $33,808 2023
Wharton Esherick Museum PA$330,251 Executive Director $111,483 $123,031 2024
Grants Pass Museum Of Art OR$263,233 Executive Director $43,000 $44,191 2024
Bozeman Art Museum MT$332,259 Executive Director $49,000 $58,452 2024
Mitte Cultural District TX$332,344 Executive Dir. $75,000 $85,477 2023
Caroline County Council Of Arts Inc MD$261,426 Former Executive Director $47,975 $49,636 2024
Arlington Artists Alliance VA$253,157 Exec Dir $61,352 $65,556 2024
Soo Visual Arts Center Inc MN$249,179 Executive Director $69,549 $78,298 2023
Offcenter Community Arts Project NM$348,177 Executive Director $62,423 $76,495 2023
Waterworks Visual Arts Center Inc NC$348,857 Executive Di $76,743 $87,753 2024
Dixie Center For The Arts Inc LA$350,701 Executive Director $78,706 $95,909 2024
George & Leah Mckenna Museum Of African American Art LA$236,523 Office Manager $66,950 $81,583 2024
Monroe-walton Center For The Arts Inc GA$235,995 Executive Dir. $44,294 $49,287 2024
Ridgefield Guild Of Artists CT$233,111 Executive Director $29,800 $30,921 2024
Sumter Gallery Of Art SC$361,959 Executive Di $12,513 $14,073 2025
Sculpture Trails Inc IN$230,668 Treasurer $3,504 $4,089 2024
Cartoon Art Museum Of California CA$365,349 Executive Director $70,284 $67,163 2024
Mcpherson Museum & Arts Foundation KS$383,070 Exe Director $55,005 $67,704 2023
New Jersey State Museum Foundation NJ$383,083 Interim Ed $28,750 $28,407 2024
Hmong Museum Of Minnesota MN$211,158 Executive Director $29,714 $31,655 2025

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 default97th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)100th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted100th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted97th

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 (Jinny Khanduja) 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 33 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (A51), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $121,244 is reasonable (approximately the 97th 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.