Live preview — download the board-ready PDF to attach to your minutes.Download the free PDF
Email yourself a copy:
PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Armenian Technology Group Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 770316548
CA · NTEE Q310
FY ending 2025-04-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Varoujan Der Simonian, Executive Director / CEO ($45,500) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 638 in total — 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: Varoujan Der Simonian — reported title “Executive Direc”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

638 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 638 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$796 total compensation of comparable organizations → $405,263 $45,500
$15,41510th
$34,52125th
$64,061Median
$96,16875th
$130,87590th
$45,500This org · 36th
p10$15,415
p25$34,521
p50$64,061
p75$96,168
p90$130,875
$45,500

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 CA 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
Reincorporated Nfp TX$363,645 President, Ceo $25,000 $30,605 2023
Africa Fire Mission OH$363,661 Executive Director $85,000 $107,018 2024
Iron Sharpens Iron Mentoring Inc NV$363,712 Executive Director $64,989 $77,437 2024
Giao Diem Humanitarian Foundation Inc CA$363,955 Director $5,000 $5,132 2024
Apparent Project WA$364,312 President $10,500 $11,505 2023
Daisy Project India Inc MO$364,730 President $9,030 $11,369 2024
Be Free Revolution Inc TN$365,192 President $39,005 $48,737 2024
Get Up Project TX$365,265 Executive Di $55,794 $68,304 2023
Thomas Jefferson Institute For The Study Of World Politics DC$365,689 President $256,004 $274,934 2023
Ezekiel Rain Inc AR$366,569 Ceo, Pres, T $79,561 $109,447 2023
India Connection Ministries Inc NY$366,574 Executive Director $27,500 $29,540 2024
Development Data Lab Inc DC$360,545 Executive Director $138,500 $148,742 2023
The Vimm Fund World Missions Dp Cog SC$367,138 Executive Director $9,906 $12,285 2024
Konbit Haiti AL$367,155 Co-executive Director $26,017 $33,411 2024
Alongsideasia Inc GA$367,472 Trustee $31,000 $38,147 2023
Forget Me Not Ministries Inc IN$359,736 President $45,736 $59,027 2023
Valentino Achak Deng Foundation CA$368,263 Executive Director/co-founder $93,750 $96,230 2024
Africa Future Foundation CA$358,743 Cfo $12,000 $12,681 2023
The Humanity Share Inc IL$368,692 Treasurer $59,573 $71,676 2023
Olive Tree Ministry Inc CA$358,573 Executive Di $36,000 $38,044 2023
Hostage Families Alliance DC$358,534 President $28,334 $29,556 2024
Charles Antetokounmpo Family Foundation MN$368,862 Deputy Director $143,947 $169,079 2024
Council For A Livable World DC$369,109 Executive Director $107,364 $115,303 2023
Civic Leadership Usa Clusa CA$358,132 President $145,200 $153,444 2023
Hong Kong Democracy Council Usa DC$358,064 Executive Director $66,900 $69,786 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to CA 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 CA 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)41st
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted39th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted33rd

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 (Varoujan Der Simonian) 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 638 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (Q), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $45,500 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.