Live preview — download the board-ready PDF to attach to your minutes.Download the free PDF
Email yourself a copy:
PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Cornerstone Collaboration For Societal

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 923399514
AZ · NTEE W99
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Lauri Phillips, Executive Director / CEO ($94,000) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 75 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 77th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Lauri Phillips — reported title “VP/SECRETARY”, selected as the organization's highest-paid individual — no exact title match, so confirm this is a comparable role.

How comparable organizations were selected

75 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 75 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$215 total compensation of comparable organizations → $182,646 $94,000
$9,09210th
$22,14125th
$59,156Median
$83,88475th
$116,15290th
$94,000This org · 77th
p10$9,092
p25$22,141
p50$59,156
p75$83,884
p90$116,152
$94,000

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 AZ 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
Community Partners Campus Inc WI$291,585 Executive Di $76,673 $83,261 2024
Fix The Court NY$282,896 Executive Director $175,441 $160,594 2025
International Peace Group OR$300,112 President $8,000 $7,725 2024
Boca Raton Acquatics Inc FL$300,613 President $116,991 $117,654 2023
San Luis Obispo County Bicycle CA$280,309 Executive Di $68,350 $63,182 2023
Achieving Dreams TX$302,069 Executive Director $46,137 $47,988 2024
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse CA$304,404 Executive Director $114,841 $103,112 2024
American Immigration Control Foundation VA$276,933 President $5,250 $5,271 2024
Passion And Purpose Ministries CA$307,187 Director $63,545 $57,055 2024
The Connection Inc MD$307,349 President $62,500 $60,757 2024
Natura International Inc DC$274,650 President $9,824 $8,964 2024
Listen First Project Inc NC$308,628 President And Exec Directo $170,000 $182,646 2024
Family Guide WA$311,614 President $24,800 $23,087 2024
Sleepawake Inc CA$313,572 Executive Director $34,277 $30,776 2024
Ladder To The Moon Network ME$314,514 President $10,802 $11,579 2023
Mindful Living Revolution CA$266,848 President $133,693 $120,039 2024
Alltrust Payee Corporation Inc FL$266,537 President $25,490 $24,899 2024
Humanist Mutual Aid Network CA$258,873 Executive Dir. $4,972 $4,464 2024
Buried Asset Management Institute-international AL$324,510 Executive Director $20,496 $23,703 2023
The Peavey Project VA$325,088 Officer $105,000 $105,417 2024
Ground Work Play Therapy Inc OH$328,423 Executive Di $45,980 $50,638 2024
Pathos Labs CO$330,476 Executive Director $60,667 $60,488 2024
Transportation Riders United Inc MI$331,276 Executive Di $71,269 $76,489 2024
The Momentum Network TN$246,930 President/ce $67,830 $76,327 2023
Bike Library Inc IA$336,285 Executive Director $57,380 $67,258 2023

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to AZ 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 AZ 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 default77th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)80th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted77th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted76th

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 (Lauri Phillips) 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 75 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (W99), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $94,000 is reasonable (approximately the 77th 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.