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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Atlantic Area Court Appointed Casa

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 582634679
GA · NTEE I80
FY ending 2024-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Petula Gomillion, Executive Director / CEO ($76,016) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 83 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 46th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Petula Gomillion — reported title “DIRECTOR”, selected as the organization's highest-paid individual — no exact title match, so confirm this is a comparable role.

How comparable organizations were selected

83 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 83 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$12,953 total compensation of comparable organizations → $404,611 $76,016
$44,12010th
$55,35525th
$80,938Median
$97,89475th
$124,33390th
$76,016This org · 46th
p10$44,120
p25$55,355
p50$80,938
p75$97,894
p90$124,333
$76,016

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
World Immigration Center Inc NY$335,018 Secretary $25,829 $23,898 2023
Greater Dayton Volunteer Lawyers Project OH$339,911 Executive Director $87,000 $91,644 2024
Legal Resource Center On Violence Against Women Inc MD$340,335 Executive Director $117,620 $106,545 2025
Trinity Legal Clinic Of Oklahoma OK$326,987 Executive Dir. $56,347 $61,707 2024
Southwest Georgia Legal Self-help GA$342,337 Executive Di $33,182 $33,182 2024
Women Against Abuse Legal Center PA$348,150 Executive Director & Presi $12,685 $12,953 2023
Emergency Legal Responders LA$317,714 Executive Director $80,125 $90,339 2023
The Joseph Project Inc MI$314,352 President $30,000 $31,706 2023
Equal Access Legal Services Inc PA$353,409 Executive Director $90,975 $90,229 2024
Student Legal Services Inc NY$312,839 Director $94,906 $83,094 2025
Arizona Justice For Our Neighbors AZ$312,535 Executive Dir. $95,351 $91,201 2024
Servicios Legales Comunitarios Inc PR$309,343 Chief Operating Officer $68,151 $68,151 2024
Self Help Inc NM$358,462 Executive Dir. $60,320 $66,430 2023
Connect Immigration CO$306,327 Executive Director $87,000 $82,967 2024
Pro Bono Organization For Native HI$362,223 Executive Di $80,000 $71,234 2024
Monroe County Senior Legal Services MI$363,058 Executive Director $69,884 $71,739 2024
Childrens Advocacy Center Of West Texas Inc TX$363,194 Exec Director $66,458 $66,116 2024
National Veterans Benefits Attorneys Inc FL$365,619 Executive Director $48,750 $46,892 2023
Arizona Crime Victim Rights Law Group AZ$301,434 Executive Dir. $78,125 $74,725 2024
Iron Defense MI$367,750 Executive Director $106,570 $109,398 2024
Wyoming Childrens Law Center WY$298,593 Executive Director And Ex Officio Board Member $113,980 $124,972 2023
Financial Protection Law Center NC$370,385 President/e.d. $122,197 $129,282 2023
Community Mediation Dc DC$296,363 Former Executive Director $59,701 $52,104 2024
Benton Franklin Legal Aid Society WA$294,679 Executive Dir. $63,815 $56,822 2024
Justice For Our Neighbors Of The PA$294,362 Executive Dir. $32,917 $33,611 2023

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 default46th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)43rd
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted49th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted45th

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 (Petula Gomillion) 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 83 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (I80), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $76,016 is reasonable (approximately the 46th 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.