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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

The Land Cle

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 851047943
OH · NTEE A33
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Christopher Mosby, Executive Director / CEO ($79,000) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 49 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 80th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

49 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 49 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1,430 total compensation of comparable organizations → $175,318 $79,000
$12,83110th
$27,09025th
$51,352Median
$74,25075th
$96,26190th
$79,000This org · 80th
p10$12,831
p25$27,090
p50$51,352
p75$74,250
p90$96,261
$79,000

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 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
Evangelical Press Association Inc AZ$235,359 Executive Director $83,936 $74,250 2025
Republic Of Letters WA$236,809 President, Publisher, Editor $67,750 $57,269 2024
Rain Taxi Inc MN$238,044 Executive Director $45,958 $44,141 2023
Anyone Corporation NY$239,192 Vp & Treasurer $30,000 $25,595 2024
The Observer IN$227,989 Editor-in-chief $5,396 $5,531 2023
Focus Press Inc TN$243,304 Employee $28,000 $28,609 2023
Dzanc Books Inc MI$217,668 Editor-in-chief $50,000 $50,165 2023
Sustainability Institute Inc VT$216,115 Co-director $87,245 $85,359 2023
Bibliographical Society Of America NY$254,548 Executive Director $84,584 $72,164 2024
Inlandia Institute Inc CA$213,419 Executive Director $64,220 $52,357 2024
Superstars Writing CO$212,953 Member $24,570 $22,901 2023
Targum Publishing Company NJ$209,199 Editor In Chief - Member $10,226 $8,620 2024
The Massachusetts Review Inc MA$262,636 Managing Editor $36,864 $32,200 2023
Reconciliation An Intl Network Of Churches And PA$262,893 President $12,500 $11,769 2024
Gospel Tract Society Inc MO$263,217 President $49,879 $51,352 2023
The Denver Homeless Voice CO$201,906 Executive Director $56,375 $52,545 2023
Fellowship For Intentional Community Inc MO$200,800 Manager $19,462 $19,462 2024
Oklahoma Media Center Inc OK$272,439 Executive Dir $94,344 $98,084 2024
American Heritage Education Foundation Inc TX$278,273 President $64,011 $58,896 2025
Latin American Perspectives Inc CA$190,599 Vice President $19,875 $16,204 2024
Western States Communication Association MT$187,356 Executive Director $12,500 $13,097 2023
Media Ecosystems Analysis MA$184,241 President & $126,160 $110,199 2023
Bellevue Literary Review Inc NY$284,941 Executive Dir. $39,600 $33,785 2024
India Childrens Press CA$183,719 Ceo $55,000 $46,165 2023
Lantern Publishing & Media NY$181,699 President $50,000 $42,658 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 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 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 default80th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)69th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted82nd
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted80th

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 (Christopher Mosby) 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 49 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (A33), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $79,000 is reasonable (approximately the 80th 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.