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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Food For The Spirit Inc

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 920989861
NY · NTEE K01
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Rebekah Williams, Executive Director / CEO ($65,769) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 389 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 68th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

389 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 389 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$13 total compensation of comparable organizations → $512,890 $65,769
$12,29710th
$31,83425th
$51,258Median
$72,63875th
$97,03790th
$65,769This org · 68th
p10$12,297
p25$31,834
p50$51,258
p75$72,638
p90$97,037
$65,769

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 NY 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
Grace Filled Table MN$272,537 Executive Di $34,066 $37,251 2024
Old Marbach School Water Supply TX$273,088 Key Employee $28,969 $32,069 2024
Hollywood Farmers Market Inc OR$273,190 Interim Market Director $37,583 $39,765 2023
Project Milk Mission OH$274,762 President $92,209 $111,272 2023
Meals On Wheels Of Evansville Inc IN$274,945 Executive Director $27,715 $32,344 2024
At The Table Inc AR$275,036 Founder Executive Director $39,539 $49,184 2024
Utah Dairy Herd Improvement Assoc UT$275,091 Manager $39,739 $45,010 2024
Paulding County Area Foundation - OH$270,088 Executive Di $57,000 $66,810 2024
Gardenshare Inc NY$270,002 Executive Di $60,909 $60,909 2024
The Body Positive CA$269,542 Executive Direc $129,918 $124,149 2024
All Faiths Pantry OH$277,295 Executive Director $30,870 $37,252 2023
Natural Soybean And Grain Alliance Inc AR$277,315 Director $112,400 $139,818 2024
Nicollet County Agricultural Society MN$267,949 Exec Secretary $1,375 $1,504 2024
Hillsdale Farmers Market Inc OR$267,831 Manager $44,925 $46,169 2024
Thimbleberry Collaborative Farm OR$277,743 Exec Dir $49,433 $52,303 2023
Chester Agricultural Center Inc NY$277,859 Executive Director $110,000 $110,000 2024
Ventura County Farm To School CA$266,589 Executive Di $102,000 $97,471 2024
Global Garden Refugee Training Farm IL$278,708 Executive Director $70,000 $76,158 2024
Chattanooga Food Center TN$266,455 Executive Director $51,000 $61,077 2023
International Center For Food Ontology CA$278,964 Chair $103,250 $101,580 2023
Loaves & Fishes Of The Fox Valley Inc WI$279,217 Executive Director $53,605 $61,954 2024
Passion And Compassion Inc MD$279,365 Executive Dir. $57,000 $60,715 2023
Hartford Food System Inc CT$279,495 Executive Dir. $87,539 $93,514 2023
Good Samaritan Meals Corp FL$265,062 Vp-operations $5,541 $5,760 2024
North Carolina Watermelon NC$264,826 Exec Directo $25,060 $28,655 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to NY 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 NY 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 default68th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)73rd
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted61st
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted64th

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 (Rebekah Williams) 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 389 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (K), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $65,769 is reasonable (approximately the 68th 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.