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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Energy Efficient West Virginia

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 824088891
WV · NTEE C35
FY ending 2023-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Robin Blakeman, Executive Director / CEO ($49,833) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 180 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 63rd percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

180 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 180 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$450 total compensation of comparable organizations → $164,633 $49,833
$5,65410th
$17,54425th
$40,298Median
$57,85975th
$80,26590th
$49,833This org · 63rd
p10$5,654
p25$17,544
p50$40,298
p75$57,859
p90$80,265
$49,833

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 WV 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
New England Botanical Club Inc MA$130,811 Coordinator $16,531 $13,326 2024
Crooks Conservation & Gun Club Inc SD$130,966 Director $2,345 $2,262 2025
Forever Maryland Inc MD$132,026 Executive Director $82,488 $67,398 2025
Keep Delaware Beautiful Inc DE$132,075 Executive Director $40,000 $36,173 2023
Seaside Sustainability Inc MA$132,364 Executive Director $65,631 $54,470 2023
Truckee River Foundation NV$132,667 Executive Director $111,826 $100,556 2024
Midwest Mitigation Oversight Association MO$132,720 Executive Director $81,000 $79,235 2023
Land Trust Of Bucks County PA$127,400 Executive Di $41,637 $38,349 2023
Earthshare Washington DC$133,745 Ceo $45,046 $35,461 2024
Human Impacts Institute Inc NY$133,757 Executive Director $52,577 $43,879 2023
Prairie Pines Partners NE$126,575 Ppp Manager $21,732 $20,969 2024
St Louis Regional Clean Cities MO$126,525 Executive Di $79,040 $75,099 2024
Friends Of Rose Canyon CA$134,305 President $55,041 $42,637 2024
B&l Woodwaste Custodial Trust WA$125,539 Trustee $10,408 $8,606 2023
Storm Drain Protection Act Inc FL$124,705 Executive Di $79,500 $66,998 2024
Central Savannah River Land Trust Inc GA$136,548 Executive Director $48,000 $43,296 2024
Hartley Mason Reservation Co Jeffrey W Mcconnell ME$136,817 Trustee $5,000 $4,492 2024
Renewable Energy Long Island Inc NY$137,142 Executive Di $32,310 $26,965 2023
Southeast Regional Land Conservancy NC$138,702 Interim Exec $68,384 $65,259 2023
Ideas Institute OH$138,712 Board Chair And Senior Researcher $42,077 $39,980 2024
Lake Fork Valley Conservancy CO$121,928 Executive Director $44,000 $38,966 2023
Coastal Watershed Institute WA$138,944 Executive Director $560 $450 2024
California Greenworks Inc CA$120,903 President $58,208 $46,422 2023
Alabama's Water Environment Association AL$140,345 Executive Director $9,062 $8,556 2025
Fish Reef Project CA$140,925 Executive Director $27,000 $20,915 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to WV cost of living and 2023 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 WV 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 default63rd
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)54th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted64th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted58th

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 (Robin Blakeman) 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 180 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (C), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $49,833 is reasonable (approximately the 63rd 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.