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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Little Rubies Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 844860115
MN · NTEE B90
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Ashley Rehder, Executive Director / CEO ($64,500) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 472 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 53rd percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

472 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 472 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$10 total compensation of comparable organizations → $454,902 $64,500
$15,39410th
$37,96725th
$60,860Median
$88,39475th
$112,45990th
$64,500This org · 53rd
p10$15,394
p25$37,967
p50$60,860
p75$88,394
p90$112,459
$64,500

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 MN 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
Watermark Homeschool Enrichment Inc FL$382,427 Director - President $35,000 $33,275 2024
Stream Innovations AL$380,712 Founder - Ceo $70,024 $76,560 2024
Thoreau College Inc WI$380,535 Executive Director $39,500 $41,749 2024
Carver Project MO$382,734 Managing Director $109,995 $121,386 2023
Girls 4 Science IL$380,207 Excutive Dir/secretary $70,000 $69,646 2024
Roots Connected Inc NY$379,637 Executive Director $122,545 $109,178 2025
Virginia Beach Fellows Inc VA$384,280 President/co $76,175 $72,516 2025
Careers Clic NH$384,562 Executive Director $72,942 $68,162 2024
Arizona Hispanic School AZ$378,507 Executive Dir. $29,667 $28,875 2024
One Spark Foundation Inc CA$385,208 Executive Dir $17,640 $15,415 2024
Giant Thinking NY$377,824 Ceo $3,300 $3,018 2024
Drepung Gomang Institute KY$377,648 Executive Director $7,750 $8,427 2024
Empowering Latina Leadership & Action WA$376,803 Executive Director Board President $68,500 $62,066 2024
Everlasting Education Inc CA$376,802 Board Member/executive Director $75,273 $65,780 2024
Kdo Academy PA$376,266 Board Member $31,139 $30,616 2025
Multinational Exchange For Sustainable A CA$386,952 Ceo $84,538 $73,877 2024
Smoke Signals Community Services In GA$376,143 President $17,525 $17,833 2024
Knowledge Builders Of Florida Inc FL$387,241 Executive Director $102,312 $100,144 2023
Nashville Technology Council Foundation TN$387,450 Chair, Ntc Pres. & Ceo $12,472 $13,268 2024
A 1 Learning Connections TN$387,481 Executive Director $258,142 $282,719 2023
Let God Help Resources Inc DE$387,505 President $49,628 $49,178 2024
Joseph And Edna Josephson Inst Of Ethics CA$374,983 President $129,226 $112,929 2024
Ceic Corp IL$388,548 President $34,755 $33,688 2025
United Sound Inc AZ$389,375 Executive Director $78,300 $74,245 2025
Suny College Of Esf NY$373,599 Former President $1,203 $1,100 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to MN 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 MN 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 default53rd
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)50th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted55th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted49th

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 (Ashley Rehder) 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 472 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (B90), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $64,500 is reasonable (approximately the 53rd 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.