Live preview — download the board-ready PDF to attach to your minutes.Download the free PDF
Email yourself a copy:
PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Friends Of Fountain Of Hope

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 824948143
OH · NTEE Q12
FY ending 2023-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Lindsey Tobin, Executive Director / CEO ($637) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 23 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 0th percentile of comparable organizationsbelow the typical range for comparable organizations

Benchmarked executive: Lindsey Tobin — reported title “Board Member”, selected as the organization's highest-paid individual — no exact title match, so confirm this is a comparable role.

How comparable organizations were selected

23 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 23 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$3,242 total compensation of comparable organizations → $130,439 $637
$12,28210th
$20,99325th
$29,558Median
$55,39675th
$83,78890th
$637This org · 0th
p10$12,282
p25$20,993
p50$29,558
p75$55,396
p90$83,788
$637

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 OH 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
Chosen And Cherished Ministries Inc NY$338,893 President/treas $18,000 $14,917 2024
Children Of Zion Of Maryland Inc MD$348,515 Executive Director $39,000 $33,437 2024
Abrahams Tent Inc NY$313,586 Director $22,500 $19,196 2023
India Connection Ministries Inc NY$366,574 Executive Director $27,500 $22,789 2024
Epic Foundation Inc NY$299,012 Assistant Treasurer & Assistant Cfo $3,912 $3,242 2024
Charles Antetokounmpo Family Foundation MN$368,862 Deputy Director $143,947 $130,439 2024
Philip Hayden Foundation Inc CA$283,376 President $102,639 $81,278 2024
Amrita-seattle WA$277,588 President $62,679 $52,983 2023
Womens Empowerment International CA$389,342 Executive Director $106,600 $84,415 2024
Comite En Union Para Salvadorenos NJ$397,912 Exec Dir $20,395 $16,699 2024
The Holiness Pilgrim Church Inc IN$263,468 American Director $4,800 $4,522 2025
Partners In Sustainable Development International MO$407,548 Executive Director $59,640 $59,640 2023
Janes House WA$249,639 President $104,025 $87,933 2023
Imprint Hope NJ$239,662 Executive Di $33,600 $28,324 2023
Netzach Yaakov NY$427,712 President $28,000 $23,203 2024
Life Help WA$236,530 President $36,000 $29,558 2024
Highland Support Project VA$433,174 Director $58,500 $53,330 2023
Brio Health Global CA$227,106 Executive Director $65,173 $53,134 2023
Health For India Inc KS$443,494 President $57,998 $57,461 2024
American Friends Of Ponovez NY$449,096 President $28,172 $23,346 2024
Gather1 TX$488,457 President $36,000 $33,024 2024
War Child Usa Inc NY$492,916 Board Member/president $30,000 $24,860 2024
American Friends Of Thorat Chajm Inc NY$495,174 President $14,025 $11,623 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to OH 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 OH 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 default0th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)0th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted9th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted0th

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 (Lindsey Tobin) 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 23 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (Q12), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $637 is reasonable (approximately the 0th 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.