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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Entrepeneurship Award Corp

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 811043590
NY · NTEE B82
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Lisa-marie Pierre, Executive Director / CEO ($112,598) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 218 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 87th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Lisa-marie Pierre — reported title “EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

218 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 218 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1 total compensation of comparable organizations → $380,283 $112,598
$9,33910th
$23,55925th
$50,553Median
$87,82875th
$119,68190th
$112,598This org · 87th
p10$9,339
p25$23,559
p50$50,553
p75$87,828
p90$119,681
$112,598

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 NY 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
Pennsylvania Restaurant And Lodging PA$325,442 Secretary $22,411 $25,463 2023
Life Light Educational Foundation CA$324,418 President $20,400 $20,070 2023
Police Association Of Virginia VA$326,505 Treasurer $3,491 $3,840 2023
Aami Foundation Inc VA$326,972 Aami Ceo $111,508 $119,149 2024
Investments & Wealth Foundation CO$327,522 Iwi Ceo/executive Director $135,157 $147,657 2023
The More Foundation OK$327,716 Executive Director $71,200 $89,325 2023
Ranger Pride Education Foundation OR$322,238 Trustee $1 $1 2024
College Access Partnership Inc CA$330,136 Dir/secty-treas $90,100 $86,099 2024
Able Flight Inc NC$330,657 Executive Director $92,000 $105,199 2024
Chuck Cooper Foundation PA$318,904 President $70,700 $80,328 2023
Mesa Public Schools Foundation AZ$332,764 Treas/int Ed $36,668 $39,025 2024
Miramar College Foundation Inc CA$316,779 College Pres $26,256 $25,090 2024
South Sudanese Enrichment For Families MA$315,794 Executive Director & Presi $65,000 $64,640 2024
Sheboygan Public Education Foundation WI$315,310 Co-executive Director $29,696 $35,335 2023
See Ya Later Foundation Inc OR$336,005 Executive Dir. $64,896 $66,694 2024
Central Valley Scholars CA$312,387 Director $36,040 $34,440 2024
Frank Chapman Memorial Institute Inc NY$312,374 Founder $27,500 $27,500 2024
Rey Feo Scholarship Foundation TX$311,155 Executive Director $43,680 $49,782 2023
Connecticut Association Of Realtors CT$310,981 Ex-officio Member $26,686 $28,507 2023
Florida Transportation Builders FL$309,821 Director $92,956 $99,493 2023
Project Read UT$309,463 Executive Director $51,450 $58,274 2024
Sisters Graduate Resource Organization OR$341,327 Program Director $17,280 $17,759 2024
Myintuition Corp MA$307,731 Chief Tech O $73,250 $70,966 2025
Circle De Luz Inc NC$342,777 Executive Director $81,000 $92,621 2024
Roever Foundation Inc TX$342,987 President/di $60,120 $68,519 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to NY 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 NY 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 default87th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)90th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted91st
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted64th

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 (Lisa-marie Pierre) 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 218 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (B82), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $112,598 is reasonable (approximately the 87th 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.