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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Downtown Statesville Development

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 561371833
NC · NTEE S20Z
FY ending 2024-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Brittany Marlow, Executive Director / CEO ($63,839) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 308 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 54th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

308 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 308 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$591 total compensation of comparable organizations → $241,396 $63,839
$18,17510th
$35,27325th
$61,984Median
$78,85175th
$107,35090th
$63,839This org · 54th
p10$18,175
p25$35,273
p50$61,984
p75$78,851
p90$107,350
$63,839

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 NC 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
Hellgate Management Corporation NY$334,528 President $70,634 $63,596 2023
Homsite Fund Inc NY$333,879 Director $19,020 $16,634 2024
Rochester Hope Inc NY$334,931 Executive Director $24,279 $21,233 2024
Concerned Communities For America Inc DC$333,333 Ceo $75,000 $65,577 2023
Extreme Community Makeover CO$333,208 Executive Director $86,241 $80,032 2024
Masters Of Coin AZ$333,005 Presceo $43,003 $40,026 2024
Sustaining Way SC$332,175 Executive Di $77,258 $78,004 2024
Detroit Community Solutions Inc MI$336,465 Ceo Non Voting $51,326 $51,272 2024
Dekalb Co Senior Citizens Council Inc MO$331,745 Administrator $29,861 $30,609 2024
Kingsbridge District Management Association Inc NY$330,509 Exec Director $40,365 $35,301 2024
Warroad Community Development MN$330,238 President/ceo $86,353 $82,579 2024
Main Street Medina Inc OH$329,790 Executive Director $68,377 $70,090 2024
86th Street Bay Ridge District NY$340,050 Executive Direc $60,660 $51,682 2025
St Jude Great Commission Community Development Cor FL$340,550 Pceo $16,322 $14,840 2024
Brighton Main Streets Inc MA$340,554 Executive Director $65,005 $55,076 2025
The Pest Management Foundation Inc VA$328,040 Ceo Npma $37,002 $35,598 2023
West End Revitalization Association NC$327,896 Co-founder Director $37,450 $38,556 2023
Northend Rise Inc FL$327,715 Executive Director (Former) $152,690 $142,923 2023
Blues To Green Inc MA$327,638 Executive Di $59,208 $51,492 2024
Rogue Valley Food System Network OR$341,087 Executive Director $88,931 $79,927 2024
Miami Childrens Initiative Inc FL$341,089 President Ceo $110,434 $103,370 2023
Old Takoma Business Association Inc MD$341,440 Executive Di $101,487 $94,539 2023
Tappahannock Main Street VA$327,098 Executive Director $66,900 $64,362 2023
Mount Vernon Downtown Association WA$342,231 Executive Dir. $78,678 $68,173 2024
World Servants Inc PA$326,260 Executive Di $90,000 $86,862 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to NC 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 NC 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 default54th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)48th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted54th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted50th

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 (Brittany Marlow) 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 308 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (S20), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $63,839 is reasonable (approximately the 54th 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.