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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Carpenter Square Theatre Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 731236623
OK · NTEE A650
FY ending 2025-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Rhonda Clark, Executive Director / CEO ($52,955) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 311 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 78th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Rhonda Clark — reported title “EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIR”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

311 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 311 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$646 total compensation of comparable organizations → $123,205 $52,955
$6,65010th
$18,30225th
$36,063Median
$50,84575th
$64,65190th
$52,955This org · 78th
p10$6,650
p25$18,302
p50$36,063
p75$50,845
p90$64,651
$52,955

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 OK 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
Second Thought Theatre TX$309,488 Executive Director $33,500 $31,237 2024
The Mountain Playhouse PA$309,483 Accountant $12,830 $12,279 2023
Wing-it Productions WA$309,153 Executive Artistic Director $42,249 $36,302 2023
Theatre Lab Inc NY$310,477 President $21,000 $17,690 2024
Piven Theatre Workshop IL$308,032 Artistic Dir $59,800 $53,391 2025
Actors Bridge Ensemble Theater Of Nashville Inc TN$312,269 Producing Artistic Director $76,500 $73,026 2025
Theater For Personal Growth Inc NY$306,579 Mgr Director/secty $95,500 $80,444 2024
Music On The Hill Inc CT$312,763 President, D $30,330 $26,509 2024
Control Group Productions CO$312,866 Ex Officio/n $42,185 $36,735 2025
Boundless Theatre Company Inc NY$306,353 Founding Member $16,331 $13,756 2024
Collaborative Theatre Project Inc OR$306,297 Artistic Dir $3,500 $3,030 2024
Cloverdale Playhouse Inc AL$313,352 Operations M $43,820 $44,129 2024
Musical Theatre Factory Inc NY$313,462 President $50,000 $43,361 2023
The Liberty Theatre Company ID$305,616 Executive Di $43,770 $43,404 2024
Theatre Dybbuk CA$314,939 See Sch O $65,149 $52,441 2024
North Shore Children's Theatre Inc MA$304,291 President & Treasurer $65,000 $54,449 2024
Actors Guild Of Parkersburg Inc WV$315,308 Interim Technical Director $35,798 $37,199 2023
Regional Theatre Of The Palouse WA$315,442 President $12,000 $10,015 2024
Lights Up Theater Inc CA$315,600 Vice President $75,000 $60,370 2024
Artists' Ensemble Theater Inc IL$303,429 Artistic Dir $25,487 $22,755 2025
Rainbow Productions VA$302,690 President $73,038 $65,738 2024
Firebird Childrens Theatre PA$302,599 President $36,150 $33,605 2024
Main Street Players Inc GA$302,461 President $24,000 $22,495 2024
Rosendale Theatre Collective Inc NY$302,387 Managing Director $59,499 $50,118 2024
Alaska Theatre Of Youth AK$316,999 Exec Dir $20,238 $18,036 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to OK 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 OK 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 default78th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)69th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted80th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted77th

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 (Rhonda Clark) 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 311 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (A65), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $52,955 is reasonable (approximately the 78th 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.