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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Brilliance Labs

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 871494224
OR · NTEE S12
FY ending 2023-06-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Anthony Hawthorne, Executive Director / CEO ($48,900) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 1080 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 43rd percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Anthony Hawthorne — reported title “President and Executive Director”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

1,080 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 1,080 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1 total compensation of comparable organizations → $342,210 $48,900
$10,91510th
$27,82825th
$55,866Median
$81,61875th
$109,01490th
$48,900This org · 43rd
p10$10,915
p25$27,828
p50$55,866
p75$81,618
p90$109,014
$48,900

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
Center For Participatory Change NC$184,834 Co-director $60,300 $67,093 2023
Medical Toxicology Foundation AZ$185,030 Executive Director/board M $39,714 $39,949 2024
Colorado Civil Justice League CO$185,106 Executive Director $77,000 $79,506 2023
Greater Fort Lauderdale Transportation FL$185,216 Executive Director $127,589 $125,365 2024
Worldorlando Inc FL$185,242 Executive Director $51,560 $52,158 2023
Cedar Branch Project CA$184,429 Executive Director $14,523 $13,504 2023
Midlands Business Leadership Group SC$185,522 Executive Di $95,677 $104,399 2024
Allegheny Clarion Development Corp PA$184,087 Executive Di $35,650 $38,283 2023
Big Apple Greeter Inc NY$184,029 Executive Director $60,045 $56,750 2024
Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition NY$185,858 Director $86,116 $81,391 2024
Oloc Inc MI$185,948 Co-director $2,000 $2,160 2024
Better Business Bureau Education NE$185,980 President/ceo $102,708 $118,955 2023
Butler County Medical Society OH$183,653 Exec Assistant $15,000 $16,617 2024
Westwater Financial Inc CA$183,506 Executive Director $78,049 $70,491 2024
Missional Chaplains Incorporated MI$183,503 Executive Di $69,996 $75,566 2024
Home Builders Association Of Hickory-catawba Valley Inc NC$183,432 Executive Officer $56,782 $63,178 2023
Equidad Atx Inc TX$183,387 President And Exec Dir $109,819 $114,899 2024
Sharing Center Properties Inc FL$183,333 President & Ceo $20,495 $20,138 2024
Tie-boston Foundation Inc MA$183,328 Executive Di $6,000 $5,639 2024
Acec-ri American Council Of RI$183,283 Executive Di $75,000 $77,441 2023
Driftless Development Inc WI$186,492 Executive Director $73,550 $80,341 2024
Adult Day Health Care Council Inc NY$183,162 Executive Director $7,024 $6,638 2024
Cavalier County Memorial Hospital Founda ND$186,685 Executive Director $45,452 $50,826 2025
The Quilt Corporation Nfp Inc IL$183,028 President $11,700 $12,030 2024
Sustain Blaine Inc ID$182,961 Executive Director $110,000 $122,391 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to OR cost of living and 2023 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 default43rd
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)45th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted43rd
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted34th

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 (Anthony Hawthorne) 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 1080 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (S), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $48,900 is reasonable (approximately the 43rd 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.