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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Hills To Climb

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 883933502
MD · NTEE O50
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Christina Lamour, Executive Director / CEO ($53,175) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 16 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 31st percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

16 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 16 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$14,489 total compensation of comparable organizations → $127,213 $53,175
$20,73010th
$39,35225th
$80,839Median
$102,26975th
$108,01690th
$53,175This org · 31st
p10$20,730
p25$39,352
p50$80,839
p75$102,269
p90$108,016
$53,175

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 MD 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
318 Foundation Inc MD$213,987 President & $85,000 $85,000 2024
Building Mosaics Solutions Inc MD$212,650 Officer $111,716 $111,716 2024
Impactdmv Inc MD$227,856 Executive Director $24,960 $24,960 2024
The Deerwood Foundation Inc MD$233,093 Executive Di $16,500 $16,500 2024
Planet Hope Land And Sea MD$238,166 Executive Director $68,500 $68,500 2024
Medical Education Resources Initiative MD$194,784 Executive Director $127,213 $127,213 2024
Imagine Me Ministries Inc MD$243,844 Executive Director $104,315 $104,315 2024
The Advance Project MD$244,362 President $102,336 $102,336 2024
Team Takeover Inc MD$257,750 President $14,073 $14,489 2023
Tilghman Area Youth Association Inc MD$158,317 Executive Dir. $26,839 $26,839 2024
Youth Activism Project MD$285,671 Chief Executive Officer $102,246 $102,246 2024
Empowering The Ages Inc MD$289,362 Executive Director $95,484 $95,484 2024
Girls On The Run Of Mid And Western Mary MD$292,640 Executive Dir. $44,675 $43,523 2025
Mentoring Male Teens In The Hood Inc MD$301,643 President $69,340 $69,340 2024
Total Foundation Inc MD$323,666 President & Ceo $85,500 $88,025 2023
Big Brothers Big Sisters Of The MD$326,665 Executive Di $76,678 $76,678 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to MD 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 MD 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 default31st
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)31st
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted38th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted31st

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 (Christina Lamour) 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 16 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (O50) + MD + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $53,175 is reasonable (approximately the 31st 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.