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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Juice Orange Mound

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 815335752
TN · NTEE W12
FY ending 2022-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Britney Thornton, Executive Director / CEO ($85,000) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 67 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 96th percentile of comparable organizationsabove the 90th percentile — board review recommended

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

How comparable organizations were selected

67 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 67 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$393 total compensation of comparable organizations → $259,729 $85,000
$2,09410th
$4,09125th
$13,402Median
$35,63575th
$63,83490th
$85,000This org · 96th
p10$2,094
p25$4,091
p50$13,402
p75$35,635
p90$63,834
$85,000

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 TN 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
Townsend Community Access And Media Inc MA$89,371 Executive Director $61,339 $50,373 2023
Boreal Community Media MN$91,570 Executive Di $18,961 $17,122 2023
Kim Center For Social Balance CA$92,740 Exec Dir $80,000 $61,320 2024
Young Marines National Foundation FL$93,099 Executive Director $30,000 $25,756 2023
Operation Vet Fit Inc SC$86,309 President $17,240 $15,965 2024
Sanford Underground Research SD$93,207 Foundation D $6,361 $6,231 2024
Women In Global Health Inc CA$93,956 Former Executive Director $167,500 $128,389 2024
Brockport Area Veterans Club Inc NY$84,547 Treasurer $1,275 $1,053 2023
Us For Warriors Foundation CA$84,114 Executive Director $2,175 $1,667 2024
St Cloud Standdown Inc MN$96,010 Director $2,400 $2,105 2024
Department Of Massachusetts Vfw Auxiliary Inc MA$83,297 President $4,703 $3,751 2024
American Legion Post 333 IN$97,240 Service Officer $4,360 $4,081 2024
Center Action Fund DC$97,707 Secretary $20,503 $15,970 2024
Kiester Legion Post 454 MN$97,728 Commander $4,716 $4,136 2024
American Legion Post 165 CT$81,585 Adjutant $500 $406 2025
Onecommunity OH$98,183 Ceo $13,574 $12,762 2024
Bin Sba Loan WA$98,556 President/ceo $17,743 $14,101 2024
Feast Of Crispian WI$98,596 President & Managing Director $28,125 $26,843 2023
Veterans Home Association Of Valley View PA$80,299 Head Bar Tender $23,188 $21,133 2023
Lake Zurich Post 964 American Legion IL$80,105 Finance Officer (Thru 10/24) $19,875 $17,345 2024
Waucoma Community Development Group IA$99,340 Secretary/tr $10,000 $10,006 2023
The White Rainbow Project CA$99,724 Executive Director $44,468 $35,092 2023
National Opportunity Project IL$100,000 President/director $289,084 $259,729 2023
100 Entrepreneurs Foundation Inc MD$79,404 President & $37,579 $32,107 2023
The Changeorg Charitable Foundation Inc CA$79,381 Executive Director $2,814 $2,220 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to TN cost of living and 2022 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 TN 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 default96th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)94th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted97th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted85th

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 (Britney Thornton) 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 67 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (W), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $85,000 is reasonable (approximately the 96th 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.