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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Utah Center For Legal Inclusion

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 815304446
UT · NTEE R30
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Kaitlyn Pieper, Executive Director / CEO ($93,692) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 30 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 60th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Kaitlyn Pieper — reported title “EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

30 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 30 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$3,805 total compensation of comparable organizations → $213,478 $93,692
$23,26310th
$49,61425th
$79,807Median
$103,83475th
$139,14690th
$93,692This org · 60th
p10$23,263
p25$49,614
p50$79,807
p75$103,834
p90$139,146
$93,692

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 UT 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
Intercommunity Justice & Peace Cent OH$278,990 Executive Di $75,000 $77,614 2024
Ohio Immigrant Alliance OH$276,851 President $8,820 $9,127 2024
Be Present Inc GA$268,392 Co-leader Of Transformative Action/ceo $18,750 $18,965 2023
Mancos Valley Resources CO$294,061 Administrator $35,544 $33,301 2024
Main Street Hanover Inc PA$261,517 Executive Di $4,008 $3,805 2025
100 Black Men Of West Georgia Inc GA$301,440 Coo $47,593 $48,138 2023
Southern Jewish GA$259,492 Executive Di $103,000 $104,178 2023
Arab Film And Media Institute CA$307,253 Executive Director $50,000 $42,185 2024
The Witness Institute MD$316,052 Executive Director $192,859 $176,169 2024
Richmonders Involved To Strengthen Our Communities VA$320,782 Lead Organizer $80,000 $77,701 2023
Dais Partners PA$240,750 President $96,154 $100,411 2022
American Arab Civil Rights League MI$323,637 Exective Dir $100,000 $100,849 2024
White Awake MD$325,386 Executive Di $147,824 $135,032 2024
Coming Together Virginia VA$235,100 Chief Executive Officer $98,577 $95,744 2023
Mccj Inc FL$333,608 Executive Director $112,000 $102,802 2024
Sweet Potato Comfort Pie MN$226,466 President $24,591 $23,741 2024
Patrol Stories Inc TX$339,693 President $116,654 $114,014 2024
Montana Racial Equity Project MT$218,498 Exec Director $60,701 $65,820 2023
Im From Driftwood NY$343,628 Executive Dir. $95,825 $84,604 2024
Healing Racism Institute Inc MA$213,172 Executive Director $120,000 $108,472 2023
People Acting For Community Together FL$212,694 Executive Director $65,000 $61,424 2023
Speaking Down Barriers SC$206,153 Executive Director $66,200 $69,471 2023
The Network For Social Justice Inc MA$360,734 Executive Director $86,248 $77,963 2023
Waging Nonviolence Inc NY$200,749 Secretary $46,800 $41,320 2024
Flourish Collective CA$363,704 Ceo $158,990 $134,139 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to UT 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 UT 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 default60th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)57th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted60th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted60th

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 (Kaitlyn Pieper) 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 30 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (R30), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $93,692 is reasonable (approximately the 60th 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.