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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Project Ledo

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 833866477
OR · NTEE B80
FY ending 2024-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Fidel Ferrer, Executive Director / CEO ($87,629) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 88 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 82nd percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Fidel Ferrer — reported title “President & Executive Director”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

88 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 88 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$250 total compensation of comparable organizations → $186,426 $87,629
$6,43710th
$19,36925th
$44,184Median
$74,88075th
$96,17190th
$87,629This org · 82nd
p10$6,437
p25$19,369
p50$44,184
p75$74,880
p90$96,171
$87,629

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 OR 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
Association Of Texas Small School Bands TX$282,096 Executive Director $60,000 $62,963 2025
Heritage Instructional Services MD$288,183 Program Admin $27,736 $27,203 2025
Families Aspiring In Trust And Holiness Catholic Home Education Community I FL$275,438 Officer $16,440 $16,631 2024
Mz Goose Inc FL$274,308 Ceo President $4,326 $4,376 2024
The Summer Institute Inc TX$271,230 Treasurer, Executive Director $18,462 $19,374 2025
College Athletic Trainer's Society TN$294,973 Executive Director $21,000 $23,770 2024
Inspirational Workshops WA$296,025 Founder & Ceo $92,096 $91,411 2023
Making The Right Connections Inc CA$269,550 President & Ceo $27,999 $26,035 2024
Capital Foundation Of New York Inc NY$268,835 President And Director $4,603 $4,479 2024
The Attitude Is Everything Foundation AZ$267,282 Executive Director $47,687 $49,385 2024
Shared Harvest Foundation Inc CA$298,640 President $94,635 $87,995 2024
Mifal Hafatza Inc NY$266,922 President $24,000 $23,353 2024
Pops Passion NC$261,995 Executive Dir. $77,500 $88,777 2023
Lompoc Teen Center CA$303,847 Executive Director $46,172 $44,201 2023
Crowd To Community Inc AZ$304,114 Ceo Director $102,804 $109,610 2023
Naturopathic Medical Student Association OR$304,466 Executive Director $28,575 $28,575 2024
University At Albany NY$305,041 President (To May) $250 $250 2023
Friends Of Infinity Acres Ranch Inc VA$306,990 Executive Director $66,000 $68,622 2024
Associated Students Of Whittier College CA$258,096 President $5,349 $5,121 2023
Youth Farm Project Inc NY$307,766 Co-director Of Education $72,927 $73,057 2023
Columbia Uplift Inc IL$257,902 President $4,800 $5,081 2024
Nassau-suffolk Performing Arts Ltd NY$308,214 Secretary & Treasurer $28,000 $27,245 2024
Indiana Council On Educating IN$308,662 Executive Di $72,000 $81,761 2024
Allied Resources For Children Inc NJ$309,139 Treasurer $7,200 $6,743 2025
Oakland Homeschool Music Inc MI$254,609 President / Ceo $14,788 $16,922 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to OR 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 OR 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 default82nd
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)85th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted81st
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted75th

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 (Fidel Ferrer) 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 88 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (B80), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $87,629 is reasonable (approximately the 82nd 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.