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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Farm To Table Buy Local

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 825121707
PA · NTEE K40
FY ending 2024-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Erin Hart, Executive Director / CEO ($40,000) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 24 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 29th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

24 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 24 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$4,324 total compensation of comparable organizations → $125,513 $40,000
$17,51710th
$37,85725th
$51,234Median
$86,89675th
$104,11190th
$40,000This org · 29th
p10$17,517
p25$37,857
p50$51,234
p75$86,896
p90$104,111
$40,000

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 PA 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
Fresh Rx Inc FL$391,890 Secretary $4,590 $4,324 2024
Harvest House Outreach Inc OK$401,962 Executive Director $41,213 $45,507 2024
Slow Food Co-denver CO$402,916 Executive Director $70,781 $70,069 2023
Metro Lifestyle Ministries Inc AL$413,219 Secretary-treasurer $9,100 $9,858 2024
Community Food Connections Inc AZ$350,794 Executive Director $65,000 $62,685 2024
From Farm To Table Inc NY$416,406 Executive Director $108,372 $101,100 2023
Partnership For Food Safety Education Inc OH$344,522 Executive Director $118,175 $125,513 2024
Child Development Nutrition Program Inc TX$423,022 President $35,800 $36,971 2023
Gods Gym Inc OK$450,710 President $20,800 $22,967 2024
Its Going To Be Ok Inc TX$456,742 Ceo $14,700 $15,181 2023
Berkeley Student Food Collective CA$460,899 Secretary $58,101 $51,795 2023
Healthy Adventures Foundation CA$300,032 Ceo $55,402 $49,389 2023
Better Health Better Life Inc MD$465,583 Executive Director $67,472 $63,255 2024
Project Milk Mission OH$274,762 President $92,209 $100,828 2023
The Body Positive CA$269,542 Executive Direc $129,918 $112,496 2024
The Peanut Institute Foundation Inc GA$496,841 President $44,286 $44,652 2024
Ifma Educational Foundation IL$498,756 President & Ceo $103,653 $102,186 2024
American Nutrition Care TX$262,184 Manager $30,842 $30,937 2024
International Society Of Behavioral NE$509,374 Executive Director $46,983 $50,673 2024
Downtown Napa Farmers Market CA$515,092 Executive Di $94,990 $82,252 2024
The Terrace Foundation CA$520,040 Former Executive Director $42,797 $38,152 2023
Suprseed Inc CA$550,576 Pres./exec. Dir $92,004 $79,666 2024
Delaware Restaurant Association DE$551,734 President & Ceo $103,807 $104,936 2023
Project Grows Inc VA$559,898 Executive Di $48,461 $48,307 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to PA 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 PA 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 default29th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)25th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted42nd
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted25th

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 (Erin Hart) 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 24 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (K40), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $40,000 is reasonable (approximately the 29th 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.