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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Guardians Of Flushing Bay Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 812124765
NY · NTEE C99
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Rebecca Pryor, Executive Director / CEO ($86,205) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 42 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 55th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Rebecca Pryor — reported title “Executive Dir.”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

42 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 42 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$2,799 total compensation of comparable organizations → $292,069 $86,205
$13,06210th
$44,84525th
$84,434Median
$119,63175th
$147,39990th
$86,205This org · 55th
p10$13,062
p25$44,845
p50$84,434
p75$119,631
p90$147,399
$86,205

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
Soulful Seeds NV$449,332 Executive Director $75,000 $83,196 2024
Southern Indiana Cooperative Weed IN$447,066 Exec Dir Beg $10,000 $11,670 2024
Green Chips NV$445,125 Executive Direc $143,077 $154,621 2025
Truckee Trails Foundation Inc CA$444,124 Executive Dir. $80,000 $76,448 2024
Clean Miami Beach Inc FL$474,880 Chair $95,000 $98,763 2024
Friends Of Bedrock Gardens NH$484,583 Executive Director $74,939 $76,576 2024
Timucuan Parks Foundation Inc FL$429,807 Executive Di $2,692 $2,799 2024
Protect The Adirondacks Inc NY$427,840 Executive Di $117,273 $117,273 2024
Northwest South Dakota Regional Landfill SD$427,317 Manager $232,277 $292,069 2023
The Freecycle Network AZ$426,737 Executive Dir. $113,600 $117,787 2025
Climate Justice Hive CO$424,930 President $20,250 $21,488 2024
Brooklyn Greenway Initiative NY$421,517 Executive Director $145,144 $149,431 2023
Earth Guardians Inc CO$410,445 Executive Director $47,297 $51,671 2023
Greening Projects CA$508,047 Executive Director $124,000 $115,440 2025
Discover Cayuga Lake Inc NY$513,021 Executive Director $61,675 $61,675 2024
350 New Hampshire NH$513,172 Co-executive Director $67,619 $69,096 2024
Rangelands Regeneration CA$517,055 President $12,000 $11,467 2024
Interlace Commons Inc VT$529,513 Executive Director $114,183 $127,185 2024
Seattle Reconomy WA$384,298 Exec Director $43,057 $42,661 2024
Just Transition Alliance CA$532,890 Executive Director $124,328 $122,316 2023
Forest Biometrics Research Institute OR$533,153 President $179,121 $184,082 2024
Blue Sky Sustainable Living Center CA$534,299 Executive Dir. $63,679 $60,851 2024
The Little Forks Conservancy Inc MI$379,505 Executive Dir. $108,087 $123,462 2024
Circular Action Alliance DC$537,186 Chief Executive Officer $270,623 $262,807 2024
Youth For Environmental Sanity CA$377,943 Community Learning & Partnership $12,000 $11,467 2024

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 default55th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)60th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted43rd
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted50th

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 (Rebecca Pryor) 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 42 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (C99), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $86,205 is reasonable (approximately the 55th 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.