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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Alabama Dance Council

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 630815232
AL · NTEE A020
FY ending 2025-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Kerri-noelle Humphrey, Executive Director / CEO ($40,000) against the 2000 closest of 3,063 comparable organizations — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 36th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Kerri-noelle Humphrey — reported title “Exec Dir”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

3,063 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 → $276,741 $40,000
$13,45610th
$30,77325th
$50,994Median
$68,80375th
$86,35590th
$40,000This org · 36th
p10$13,456
p25$30,773
p50$50,994
p75$68,803
p90$86,355
$40,000

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 AL 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
Tillamook County Pioneer Museum OR$373,195 Executive Dir. $52,576 $47,760 2023
Hawthorne Arts Collaborative ME$373,179 Executive Dir. $60,000 $57,085 2024
The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company LA$373,292 Co Artistic Director $24,976 $26,131 2024
Millburn Institute Of Talent NJ$373,033 Principal $7,510 $6,207 2025
Voicecorps Reading Services Inc OH$373,016 Executive Di $54,474 $56,438 2023
Dance Heginbotham Inc NY$372,989 Artistic Dir $14,675 $12,275 2025
Forward Progress Arts & Entertainment Centers Inc TX$372,833 Executive Director $23,050 $21,907 2024
Chamber Music Monterey Bay CA$373,584 Operations Manager $69,075 $56,672 2024
Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film NY$373,762 Pres & Exec Dir $65,000 $55,807 2024
Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra Inc VA$373,877 Executive Director $36,593 $33,570 2024
Central Current Inc NY$373,915 Executive Director $64,341 $55,240 2024
Art House San Clemente CA$373,922 Executive Director $79,995 $67,570 2023
Ensemble Studio Theatre The La Project CA$372,384 Artistic Director $14,500 $12,248 2023
Higher Works Collaborative MN$372,381 Exec Adminis $37,671 $36,412 2023
Alliance Francaise Of Westchester NY$372,319 Executive Di $64,104 $55,037 2024
The Castle Museum OH$374,119 Executive Di $65,157 $65,570 2024
Ridgway Chautauqua CO$372,005 Executive Director $133,883 $125,578 2023
Fontana Chamber Arts MI$371,972 Director $53,523 $51,137 2025
American Friends Of Chicken Shed Inc NY$374,584 Ceo & President $55,328 $48,905 2023
Friends Of The Orchestra CO$374,591 Executive Dir. $29,345 $26,735 2024
Prescott Circus Theatre CA$374,696 Executive Dir. $60,738 $49,832 2024
Institute For The Next Jewish Future Injf IL$371,552 Executive Director $21,212 $19,814 2024
Spaceflight Mission TX$371,544 Founding Board Member $41,250 $39,205 2024
Teatro Experimental Yerbabruja Inc NY$371,539 Executive Director $100,000 $85,856 2024
Chicago Cultural Alliance IL$374,863 Executive Dir. $80,927 $75,593 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to AL cost of living and 2025 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 AL 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 default36th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)32nd
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted37th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted34th

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 (Kerri-noelle Humphrey) 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 (A), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $40,000 is reasonable (approximately the 36th 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.