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Compensation Comparability Determination

Easterseals Arkansas

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 710123680
AR · NTEE E50Z
FY ending 2025-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Ronald Ekstrand, Executive Director / CEO ($256,475) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 573 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 40th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Ronald Ekstrand — reported title “PRESIDENT/CEO”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

573 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 573 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$5,833 total compensation of comparable organizations → $27,707,337 $256,475
$45,90110th
$144,38825th
$312,296Median
$454,87775th
$709,97190th
$256,475This org · 40th
p10$45,901
p25$144,388
p50$312,296
p75$454,877
p90$709,971
$256,475

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 AR 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
Hudson Valley Cardiovascular Practice Pc NY$64,908,453 Former President $566,925 $467,811 2024
Rocky Boy Health Center MT$64,766,480 Medical Director $311,163 $306,294 2024
Jewish Home Of Rochester NY$64,759,331 Board Member / Corp Pres & Ceo $934,303 $770,962 2024
Neighborhood Outreach Access To AZ$64,753,316 Ceo $378,444 $332,359 2024
Premium Health Inc NY$64,985,496 Executive Director $776,841 $641,029 2024
🔒 568 more comparable organizations — included in the purchased report

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to AR 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 AR 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 default40th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)36th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted45th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted14th

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:

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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.