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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Center For Mindful Relationships

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 870761327
CA · NTEE B03
FY ending 2024-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Laura Carr, Executive Director / CEO ($75,400) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 62 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: Laura Carr — reported title “CLINCAL DIRECTR”, selected as the organization's highest-paid individual — no exact title match, so confirm this is a comparable role.

How comparable organizations were selected

62 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 62 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$2,631 total compensation of comparable organizations → $331,933 $75,400
$12,67210th
$46,07925th
$85,605Median
$123,61975th
$214,89690th
$75,400This org · 42nd
p10$12,672
p25$46,079
p50$85,605
p75$123,619
p90$214,896
$75,400

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 CA 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
Wingsforgrowth Inc NJ$435,310 Founder And Ceo $81,250 $84,011 2024
Sogal Foundation FL$421,062 Operations & Partnerships Mana $63,236 $73,732 2022
Utah Coalition For Educational UT$441,579 Treasurer $3,300 $3,911 2024
Tennessee Music Education Association TN$441,617 Treasurer / Executive Director $20,960 $25,515 2024
National Association Of Corporate Directors TX$446,614 Executive Director $180,700 $209,329 2024
The Paradigm Project IL$448,500 President $9,507 $11,144 2023
Whitaker Small Farm Group Inc NC$403,763 Presidentceo $63,500 $75,984 2024
The Sarah Stitt Hope Foundation Inc OK$457,121 Executive Director $4,200 $5,514 2023
Achieve Hartford Inc CT$460,828 Executive Di $173,538 $193,998 2023
It4causes Inc VA$463,496 Chair $157,793 $181,652 2023
Illinois Reading Council Inc IL$471,368 Executive Dir. $82,000 $90,952 2025
Ischools Inc MA$473,028 Exec Dir (Fr $89,279 $92,910 2024
Talas - Texas Association Of Latinoadministrators And Superintendents TX$385,738 Executive Director $27,500 $31,857 2024
Missouri Association Of Treatment MO$385,113 Executive Di $59,792 $73,340 2024
Practice Transformation Institute MI$480,890 Vice-preside $73,669 $88,059 2024
Paris Church Of The Holy Cross Parish TX$377,944 Ececutive Director $25,703 $29,775 2024
Apga Security And Integrity Foundation DC$482,269 Ceo $48,104 $48,885 2024
Judaism Alive Dba Jewish Rock Radio MO$375,866 Executive Dir. $78,000 $98,499 2023
The Corporation For Community And Economic Dev Uni FL$375,500 Executive Director $111,450 $124,830 2023
Israel-texas Science And Education Foundation Inc TX$375,000 Hellerstein $197,080 $235,048 2023
Abundant Life Ministries Hope FL$485,074 Ceo $65,000 $70,715 2024
Oklahoma Society For Technology In OK$372,429 Executive Di $57,625 $71,590 2025
Society For American Music WA$367,955 Executive Di $34,269 $35,531 2024
Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs Inc MA$492,379 President $120,000 $121,661 2025
Minority Accounting Career Resource Society MI$367,092 President And Ceo $15,000 $17,930 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to CA 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 CA 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)50th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted42nd
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted39th

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 (Laura Carr) 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 62 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (B03), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $75,400 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 9, 2026.