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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Rogue Valley Food System Network

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 931226444
OR · NTEE S20
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Alison Hensley Sexauer, Executive Director / CEO ($88,931) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 314 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 75th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

314 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 314 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$657 total compensation of comparable organizations → $268,589 $88,931
$20,07410th
$39,69425th
$69,156Median
$88,11475th
$123,21890th
$88,931This org · 75th
p10$20,074
p25$39,694
p50$69,156
p75$88,114
p90$123,218
$88,931

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
Miami Childrens Initiative Inc FL$341,089 President Ceo $110,434 $115,014 2023
Old Takoma Business Association Inc MD$341,440 Executive Di $101,487 $105,188 2023
Brighton Main Streets Inc MA$340,554 Executive Director $65,005 $61,280 2025
St Jude Great Commission Community Development Cor FL$340,550 Pceo $16,322 $16,511 2024
86th Street Bay Ridge District NY$340,050 Executive Direc $60,660 $57,503 2025
Mount Vernon Downtown Association WA$342,231 Executive Dir. $78,678 $75,853 2024
Main Street Gloucester Preservation VA$343,631 Executive Director $53,872 $56,012 2024
One Horizon Institute Inc KY$344,308 President And Board Chair $140,171 $162,165 2024
Detroit Community Solutions Inc MI$336,465 Ceo Non Voting $51,326 $57,047 2024
Rochester Hope Inc NY$334,931 Executive Director $24,279 $23,625 2024
Hellgate Management Corporation NY$334,528 President $70,634 $70,760 2023
Downtown Statesville Development NC$334,303 Executive Dir. $63,839 $71,030 2024
Homsite Fund Inc NY$333,879 Director $19,020 $18,507 2024
Main Street Deland Association Inc FL$348,394 Executive Director $48,596 $49,159 2024
Concerned Communities For America Inc DC$333,333 Ceo $75,000 $72,964 2023
Extreme Community Makeover CO$333,208 Executive Director $86,241 $89,048 2024
Masters Of Coin AZ$333,005 Presceo $43,003 $44,534 2024
Midtown Greenway Coalition MN$349,180 Executive Director $76,641 $81,548 2024
Makers Collective SC$349,248 Executive Dir. $20,400 $22,917 2024
Sustaining Way SC$332,175 Executive Di $77,258 $86,791 2024
Dekalb Co Senior Citizens Council Inc MO$331,745 Administrator $29,861 $34,057 2024
Pike Township Educational Foundation IN$351,107 Executive Dir. $38,608 $42,712 2025
Kingsbridge District Management Association Inc NY$330,509 Exec Director $40,365 $39,277 2024
Warroad Community Development MN$330,238 President/ceo $86,353 $91,882 2024
Booc Inc IL$352,023 Executive Director $94,576 $100,122 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 default75th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)79th
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted76th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted72nd

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 (Alison Hensley Sexauer) 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 314 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE sector (S20), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $88,931 is reasonable (approximately the 75th 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.