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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Main Street Scholars

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 813541206
CA · NTEE B92
FY ending 2025-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Jamie Weintraub, Executive Director / CEO ($36,000) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 38 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 16th percentile of comparable organizationsbelow the typical range for comparable organizations

Benchmarked executive: Jamie Weintraub — reported title “EXECUTIVE DI”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

38 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 38 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$5 total compensation of comparable organizations → $168,713 $36,000
$16,65010th
$54,82925th
$69,022Median
$82,83675th
$129,11590th
$36,000This org · 16th
p10$16,650
p25$54,829
p50$69,022
p75$82,836
p90$129,115
$36,000

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 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
Every Child A Reader In Escambia Inc FL$344,366 Executive Director $61,059 $68,186 2024
Lifechange Community Service Inc CA$347,084 Key Employee $22,917 $23,523 2024
Maryland Reads Inc MD$355,083 Executive Director $126,300 $140,362 2024
Reading Is Essential For All People GA$321,854 President $55,000 $65,738 2024
Enlightenment Bookstore And NY$319,531 Executive Di $62,789 $69,437 2023
Gaining Ground Inc OK$366,413 Executive Director $57,634 $77,667 2023
Family Literacy Network Inc TX$309,744 Director $8,100 $9,631 2024
Learning Is For Tomorrow Inc MD$305,217 Executive Di $90,066 $97,514 2025
Palmetto State Literacy Associaton SC$303,184 Treasurer $12,000 $14,882 2024
The Center A Drop-in Community CT$299,654 Executive Dir. $52,700 $58,737 2024
Desiring Advancement Overseas Inc TN$382,749 President $58,000 $74,612 2023
Smart Family Literacy Inc TX$387,857 Executive Dir. $60,625 $72,088 2024
St Louis Black Authors Of Childrens Literature MO$289,700 President $42,262 $53,209 2024
Uplift Literacy Inc FL$282,525 Executive Director $52,200 $56,790 2025
Dyslexia Reading Connection Inc WI$402,730 Executive Dir. $56,640 $70,316 2024
We Shall Read MI$407,953 Executive Director $97,183 $119,239 2024
Rowan County Literacy Council Inc NC$259,540 Executive Di $33,808 $41,526 2024
Street Books OR$257,697 Executive Director $5 $5 2023
Mid-state Literacy Council Inc PA$256,728 Executive Director $64,153 $76,048 2024
Literacy Action Of Central Arkansas Inc AR$251,341 Exec Director $51,600 $68,946 2024
Sit Stay Read Inc IL$429,365 Executive Director $148,186 $168,713 2025
The Real Program Inc MA$248,178 Director $51,050 $54,532 2024
Healthy Cities Tutoring Inc CA$431,927 Executive Dir. $133,900 $133,900 2025
Books Inc's Reading Bridge CA$245,325 Executive Director (Part Year) $3,219 $3,304 2024
The Max Warburg Courage Curriculum Inc MA$435,351 Executive Director $128,694 $137,471 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 default16th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)18th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted16th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted13th

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 (Jamie Weintraub) 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 38 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (B92), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $36,000 is reasonable (approximately the 16th 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.