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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Friends Of The Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 931197298
OR · NTEE C99Z
FY ending 2024-09-30
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Bonnie Anderson, Executive Director / CEO ($62,820) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 27 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 63rd percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

27 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 27 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1,053 total compensation of comparable organizations → $243,242 $62,820
$7,26610th
$31,74425th
$43,783Median
$80,49075th
$121,58890th
$62,820This org · 63rd
p10$7,266
p25$31,744
p50$43,783
p75$80,490
p90$121,588
$62,820

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
Crawford Stewardship Project Ltd WI$179,146 Treasurer $7,358 $8,519 2023
Coastal Bend Air Quality Partnership TX$174,000 Executive Director $118,429 $127,567 2024
Cape Coral Remade Inc FL$167,283 Board Secretary $1,041 $1,053 2024
Friends Of Wilmington Parks DE$194,460 Executive Director $45,000 $47,447 2024
Fair Future Movement Inc WI$199,436 Executive Director $30,291 $35,072 2023
Ballard Family Nature Center Inc IL$204,991 Co-director $34,670 $37,787 2023
American Environmental Health Studies Pr VT$206,502 Director $75,000 $81,289 2024
Source Of Synergy Foundation Inc NY$145,796 President $44,996 $43,783 2024
Gorge Rebuild-it Community Project OR$209,834 Vice Chairexecutive Director $76,500 $74,528 2025
The Firefly Gathering Inc NC$211,169 Executive Director $24,805 $28,415 2023
Cyclists Of Gitchee Gumee Shores MN$141,113 Executive Director $52,500 $55,861 2024
Assoc Of Us Delegates To The Gulf Of ME$216,510 Executive Director & Counc $73,905 $79,690 2024
Rewild Long Island Inc NY$220,764 Director $5,536 $5,387 2024
Mississippis Lower Delta Partnership MS$222,010 Coordinator $66,790 $82,468 2023
Apis Arborea CA$223,552 President $67,670 $64,781 2023
Crooks Conservation & Gun Club Inc SD$130,966 Director $2,345 $2,716 2025
Cultiva International Inc UT$225,527 President $36,000 $40,847 2023
Mo Hives Kc MO$230,471 Executive Director $34,900 $39,804 2024
The Ike Foundation NJ$235,402 Trustee $253,000 $243,242 2024
Sovereign Energy NM$238,491 Executive Director $11,538 $13,758 2023
Eastrail Partners WA$240,542 Executive Director $118,483 $117,602 2023
Natural Streams Foundation Inc PA$242,875 President And Ceo $35,069 $37,659 2024
Otsego County Economic Alliance Inc MI$243,519 Executive Director $90,060 $103,055 2023
Ecological Options Network CA$244,731 President $22,934 $21,325 2024
Ohio River Way OH$248,751 Executive Dir. $38,262 $43,639 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 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 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 default63rd
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)63rd
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted67th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted63rd

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 (Bonnie Anderson) 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 27 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (C99), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $62,820 is reasonable (approximately the 63rd 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.