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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Early County Literacy Task Force

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 582058984
GA · NTEE B94Z
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Erin Lee, Executive Director / CEO ($20,806) against the 2000 closest of 2,839 comparable organizations — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 21st percentile of comparable organizationsbelow the typical range for comparable organizations

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

How comparable organizations were selected

2,839 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 → $530,770 $20,806
$8,70010th
$23,86225th
$45,964Median
$69,09175th
$95,91890th
$20,806This org · 21st
p10$8,700
p25$23,862
p50$45,964
p75$69,091
p90$95,918
$20,806

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 GA 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
Washington Career And Technical Sports Medicine Association WA$282,916 Executive Director $34,450 $29,884 2025
Solar Toledo Neighborhood Foundation OH$282,862 Secretary/treasurer $60,259 $65,350 2023
Project Ledo OR$282,845 President & Executive Director $87,629 $80,933 2024
Circle School NY$283,012 Executive Director $51,829 $47,955 2023
St Helena Preschool For All Inc CA$283,013 Executive Dir. $77,400 $68,434 2023
Consortium For Entrepreneurship WV$283,070 Ceo $75,000 $83,148 2023
Day 7 Inc TN$283,094 Executive Director $49,067 $51,295 2024
Homeschool Christian Academy Inc MO$283,095 Executive Director $41,400 $42,486 2025
Rockville Presbyterian Cooperative Nursery School MD$282,742 Program Director $28,000 $25,363 2025
Crsa CO$282,709 Executive Director $162,356 $159,404 2023
Catalytic Communities Inc MD$283,144 Executive Director $38,400 $41,330 2021
All Saints' Episcopal School Of Fort TX$282,677 Head Of School $33,050 $32,880 2024
Arkansas Rural Ed Association AR$282,532 Executive Director $76,000 $84,962 2024
Uplift Literacy Inc FL$282,525 Executive Director $52,200 $47,513 2025
Family Preschool Inc NC$282,519 Director $25,946 $27,450 2023
Harvardwood CA$283,355 Executive Director $49,032 $42,108 2024
Impactful Projects Inc NC$283,355 Executive Director $55,000 $58,190 2023
Association Of Accredited Naturopathic DC$283,366 Executive Director - Non-voting $122,808 $107,180 2024
Shriners International Education FL$282,452 Assistant Secretary $47,371 $44,259 2024
Redemption Foundation MI$283,390 Executive Director (Ended 4/24) $20,502 $21,046 2024
Michigan Association Of Community MI$283,400 Former Exec $69,698 $71,548 2024
Concordia Academy-wichita KS$283,423 Headmaster $90,000 $96,700 2024
National Veterans Transition CA$282,384 President/executive Direct $37,500 $32,205 2024
Nd Senior Career Development ND$282,338 Director $50,000 $53,164 2025
Chicago Association Of Realtors Educational Foundation Inc IL$283,593 Top Mgmt Offical & Car Ceo $40,393 $39,494 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to GA 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 GA 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 default21st
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)21st
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted28th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted18th

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 Lee) 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 (B), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $20,806 is reasonable (approximately the 21st 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.