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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Latino Educational Equity

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 812743076
TX · NTEE B128
FY ending 2024-08-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Roberto Gutierrez, Executive Director / CEO ($54,000) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 40 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 75th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Roberto Gutierrez — reported title “FOUNDER”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

40 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 40 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$737 total compensation of comparable organizations → $439,835 $54,000
$7,12410th
$14,70125th
$28,786Median
$53,39975th
$73,69490th
$54,000This org · 75th
p10$7,124
p25$14,701
p50$28,786
p75$53,399
p90$73,694
$54,000

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 TX 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
Get Cooking Incorporated FL$160,555 President $35,000 $32,870 2024
Foundation For Culinary Arts IL$158,050 Executive Director $164,667 $161,837 2024
Shippensburg Area School District PA$156,958 Executive Di $55,385 $56,846 2023
Ninos Del Sol Inc NY$166,747 Director $10,600 $9,575 2024
Camden Schools Foundation NJ$173,544 Vice President $16,500 $14,727 2024
Friends Of Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy TX$146,358 Key Employee $16,750 $16,318 2025
Yakima Schools Foundation WA$140,137 Executive Dir. $50,233 $44,960 2024
Cape Henlopen Educational Fund DE$182,706 Admin Manage $24,578 $23,438 2025
Raymond Schools Foundation WA$182,859 Secretary/treas $2,400 $2,148 2024
Preston Brown Foundation FL$136,155 Executive Di $52,000 $48,835 2024
Heights Schools Foundation OH$186,278 Executive Di $26,085 $28,435 2023
Jonas Realty Corp MA$186,388 Vice President $57,176 $52,881 2023
Franklin Education Association MA$133,990 President $8,500 $7,439 2025
Alexandria Education Foundation MN$133,805 Executive Dir. $46,960 $45,192 2025
The Education Foundation Of Putnam FL$189,084 Executive Director $27,500 $25,826 2024
Victorious Life International IL$189,594 Ceo $750 $737 2024
Oj Anderson Scholarship Foundation Inc NJ$191,208 President $14,400 $13,232 2023
Laptops 4 Learning AZ$192,571 Executive Director $18,000 $17,817 2023
Austin Public Education Foundation MN$195,646 President $14,600 $14,422 2024
Common Grounds Community Development Corp FL$126,000 Treasurer $12,000 $11,602 2023
Western Dairy Education & Research MO$200,700 President $415,400 $439,835 2024
Hallsville Isd Education Foundation TX$201,469 Executive Dir. $20,000 $20,000 2024
Rochester Education Foundation Inc NY$202,563 Executive Director $32,500 $30,226 2023
Mandela International Magnet School Education Foundation NM$203,289 Treasurer $3,000 $3,226 2024
Njea Affiliates Risk Purchasing NJ$206,464 President $100,282 $89,508 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to TX 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 TX 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 default75th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)73rd
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted80th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted68th

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 (Roberto Gutierrez) 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 40 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (B12), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $54,000 is reasonable (approximately the 75th 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.