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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Des Moines Refugee Support

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 843102842
IA · NTEE P20
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 13, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Alison Hoeman, Executive Director / CEO ($50,000) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 1060 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 42nd percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Alison Hoeman — reported title “Founder and Executive Director”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

1,060 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 1,060 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1 total compensation of comparable organizations → $298,687 $50,000
$16,95110th
$34,37525th
$56,058Median
$78,33075th
$102,13290th
$50,000This org · 42nd
p10$16,951
p25$34,375
p50$56,058
p75$78,330
p90$102,132
$50,000

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 IA 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
Spec Labs Inc CA$442,366 President $75,275 $59,364 2024
Freedom Lake Inc KY$441,683 Board Chair And President $80,100 $78,595 2024
St Suzanne Code Rouge Community MI$443,052 Project Dire $39,192 $38,037 2023
Nagi Foundation Inc AZ$443,084 Executive Dir. $111,000 $100,376 2023
Instituto De Avance Integral Latino Cdc CA$441,139 Executive Director $100,000 $78,863 2024
Divine Directions Corporation MS$441,054 Program Director $38,701 $39,366 2024
Loving Houston Inc TX$440,562 Exec Dir (Fo $83,833 $76,588 2024
Newport Partnership For Families RI$444,016 Executive Director Through April 2023 $71,153 $64,152 2023
1st Way Pregnancy Support Services IL$440,407 Executive Dir. $42,000 $37,711 2024
Imago Dei Ministries CA$444,143 Executive Director $41,998 $34,100 2023
Community Access Center Inc FL$439,661 Executive Dire $26,560 $22,788 2024
Rainbow Kitchen Community Services PA$445,146 Executive Director $129,727 $121,641 2023
Greater Park Hill Community Inc CO$439,185 Executive Director $38,606 $34,807 2023
Lifesouth Community Foundationinc FL$439,177 President / $50,917 $43,685 2024
Safety Council Of Greater St Louis MO$439,145 Executive Director $69,164 $68,880 2023
My Fathers House Community Service Inc KS$438,990 Employee $60,375 $61,329 2023
Mission Okc Outreach Ministry Inc OK$438,936 Pastor And Ceo $51,232 $51,522 2024
Dress For Success Atlanta Inc GA$445,502 Executive Director $148,120 $140,037 2023
Konscious Youth Develpment & Servic NJ$445,515 President $81,667 $66,593 2024
Ivy Womens Center Inc OH$438,608 Executive Director $51,513 $51,302 2023
North-northeast Business OR$438,597 President Ed $170,264 $148,673 2023
Ht Ministries OH$445,860 Executive Director $53,875 $52,114 2024
Synaptiv Inc CO$445,939 President $134,195 $117,520 2024
Affecting Community Transformation OH$446,012 Executive Director $65,382 $63,245 2024
Respite Care Atlanta Inc GA$446,063 Exec. Director $92,125 $87,097 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to IA 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 IA 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 default42nd
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)36th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted44th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted38th

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 (Alison Hoeman) 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 13, 2026, comparing compensation against 1060 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (P20), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $50,000 is reasonable (approximately the 42nd 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 13, 2026.