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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

The Peoples Port Authority

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 884041998
RI · NTEE T01
FY ending 2023-12-31
June 13, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Monica Huertas, Executive Director / CEO ($80,000) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 629 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 85th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Monica Huertas — reported title “EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

629 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 629 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$100 total compensation of comparable organizations → $758,527 $80,000
$7,78510th
$22,52425th
$41,265Median
$64,10975th
$95,15290th
$80,000This org · 85th
p10$7,785
p25$22,524
p50$41,265
p75$64,109
p90$95,152
$80,000

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 RI 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
Mccaw Family Foundation Inc IN$203,841 Director $65,459 $69,925 2024
Gulf Coast Cares Inc FL$203,803 President/ceo $24,866 $24,361 2023
American Charitable Trust Inc AZ$204,431 Director And Chief Financial Officer $2,595 $2,463 2025
Sam Foundation Inc AL$203,483 Executive Di $40,000 $43,773 2024
Reconnect Shiurim Inc NJ$203,116 Secretary-director $28,350 $25,641 2024
Israel America Foundation Inc NY$202,951 Executive Direc $79,200 $74,636 2023
Angels On The Bay Inc NY$205,028 Vp $34,692 $31,755 2024
Frances Pope Memorial Foundation Inc NY$202,930 Former President $50,000 $47,119 2023
The Grace Bomb Company MD$205,156 President $134,249 $130,893 2023
Stearns Electric Association Trust MN$202,713 Ceo - Stearns Electric Association $116,317 $116,425 2024
Nehemiah Community Foundation CA$205,259 Coo $85,180 $76,707 2023
Heads Hearts & Hands Of Heartland Inc FL$205,501 Ceo/executive Director $24,500 $24,987 2022
Sitka Sportsmans Assoc AK$205,603 Vice President $100 $100 2023
William & Barbara Fitzgerald Family Fdn NE$202,231 Director $19,567 $21,319 2024
Foundation For Dubuque Public Schools IA$205,992 Exec. Director As Of Jun 2023 $32,939 $37,613 2023
Commonwealth Corporation Foundation MA$206,047 President/ceo (04/23) $25,988 $24,355 2023
Penn-harris Madison Educational IN$206,063 Executive Director $48,431 $53,264 2023
Bvm Foundation VA$201,839 Administrati $2,500 $2,517 2023
Talitha Koum Womens Recovery House IN$206,242 Director $25,920 $27,688 2024
United Way Of Dodge County Inc WI$201,720 Executive Director $18,375 $18,938 2025
Graduate Medical Education Consortium Of Southwest VA$201,618 Executive Director $62,083 $62,515 2023
Foundation Of The Vna NJ$206,433 President & Ceo $62,249 $56,299 2024
Oak Harbor Educational Foundation WA$201,511 Executive Director $40,013 $37,360 2023
Growing Years Children's Academy CA$206,512 President $26,000 $23,414 2023
Phillips County Healthcare Foundation CO$206,586 Executive Director $19,000 $19,000 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to RI 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 RI 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 default85th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)85th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted89th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted60th

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 (Monica Huertas) 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 13, 2026, comparing compensation against 629 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (T), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $80,000 is reasonable (approximately the 85th 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 13, 2026.