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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Safe In Lenoir County Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 561476925
NC · NTEE P43Z
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Erin Passailaigue, Executive Director / CEO ($66,477) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 62 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 50th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Erin Passailaigue — reported title “EXECUTIVE DI”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

62 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 62 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$6,653 total compensation of comparable organizations → $106,574 $66,477
$37,43110th
$54,41125th
$65,740Median
$79,04875th
$89,24990th
$66,477This org · 50th
p10$37,431
p25$54,411
p50$65,740
p75$79,048
p90$89,249
$66,477

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
Hillsdale County Task Force On Family Violence MI$491,434 Excecutive Director $69,350 $67,490 2025
Crisalida Inc CO$491,618 Executive Director $114,842 $106,574 2024
Southern Ohio Area Task Force On OH$480,087 Executive Director $77,302 $79,239 2024
Bethany House Of Northern Virginia Inc VA$510,506 Executive Director $86,456 $80,790 2024
Family Crisis Center Inc OK$512,925 Executive Di $79,228 $84,432 2024
Domestic Violence Intervention Inc NV$465,956 Executive Director $63,093 $61,207 2024
Barbara Kettle Gundlach Shelter MI$516,992 Exc Director $56,691 $56,631 2024
Bridges Safehouse Inc TX$459,379 Executive Director $51,104 $49,474 2024
Domestic Abuse Center CA$458,203 Executive Di $71,872 $60,064 2024
Safe Center Inc OK$527,588 Executive Dir. $67,576 $74,142 2023
My Sisters' Place OR$529,319 Executive Di $68,274 $61,362 2024
Knoxville Family Justice Center TN$529,321 Executive Director $87,560 $91,705 2023
Next Step Ministries NC$529,963 Executive Director $70,044 $70,044 2024
Save Asian Souls Inc FL$532,226 Cfo $35,004 $32,765 2023
Domestic Violence And Abuse Center ND$449,150 Executive Director $52,547 $54,371 2025
Where All Women Are Honored SD$445,638 Executive Dir. $55,385 $60,904 2023
Domestic Violence Escape Inc (Dove) MI$551,386 Executive Di $45,760 $45,711 2024
New Hope Crisis Pregnancy Center NC$553,728 Executive Dir. $65,000 $65,000 2024
Nuevo Sendero Inc FL$427,112 Ceo $39,049 $36,551 2023
Domestic Violence Crisis Services AL$557,432 Executive Director $52,154 $54,530 2024
Hyde County Hotline Inc NC$558,090 Executive Director $90,832 $88,491 2025
Domestic Abuse Intervention NM$420,735 Executive Di $6,560 $6,653 2025
Haven Of Tioga County PA$418,718 Executive Di $62,883 $60,690 2024
Custer Network Against MT$415,077 Executive Di $74,025 $77,226 2024
Joel 2 Missions Inc PA$412,494 President $20,872 $20,740 2023

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 default50th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)50th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted37th
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 (Erin Passailaigue) 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 62 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (P43), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $66,477 is reasonable (approximately the 50th 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.