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PeerBasis
Compensation Comparability Determination

Center For Ethical Leadership

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 943154539
WA · NTEE B64Z
FY ending 2023-12-31
June 9, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Alice Fong, Executive Director / CEO ($76,925) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 1883 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 80th percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

Benchmarked executive: Alice Fong — reported title “CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER”, a direct title match to the Executive Director / CEO role.

How comparable organizations were selected

1,883 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 1,883 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$1 total compensation of comparable organizations → $478,733 $76,925
$8,73610th
$22,89725th
$45,863Median
$70,00075th
$98,59490th
$76,925This org · 80th
p10$8,736
p25$22,897
p50$45,863
p75$70,000
p90$98,594
$76,925

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 WA 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
Thrive International Programs Inc PA$193,202 Board Member And Executive Director Of Organization $28,435 $31,672 2023
Freedom Village Of Hope TN$193,592 Consulting Assistant Executive Director $32,500 $37,063 2024
Joey's Dream Builders TX$193,597 Executive Director $40,000 $43,409 2024
Discovery Therapies Inc SC$193,827 Ceo And Cfo $32,200 $35,505 2025
Loan Repayment Assistance Program Of MN$192,896 Executive Director $67,508 $74,506 2023
First Christian Church Youth AR$192,862 Executive Di $27,500 $33,535 2024
Heritage Mission Foundation Inc IN$192,847 Secretary $23,800 $27,229 2024
Caledonia Education Foundation MI$192,835 Executive Di $19,582 $21,928 2024
Springdale Free Public Library Inc PA$192,770 Director Administrator $57,165 $61,846 2024
Chester Street Foundation TX$193,987 Ceo, Chair $65,158 $70,712 2024
Amplify Horse Racing KY$192,754 Executive Director $73,500 $85,669 2024
Global Training Network OK$194,034 President $58,548 $72,008 2023
Omaha South High Alumni Association NE$192,684 Treasurer $14,046 $16,874 2023
Students Without Mothers Inc GA$194,123 Executive Dir. $66,600 $72,650 2024
Educational Support Organization MS$192,594 Board Member $5,250 $6,531 2023
Laptops 4 Learning AZ$192,571 Executive Director $18,000 $19,335 2023
La Vega Pirates Education Foundation TX$194,234 Executive Director $10,000 $10,852 2024
Empowering Garden Inc IL$192,373 President $19,500 $21,413 2023
Bnos Sarah Inc NJ$194,438 Trustee $6,000 $5,812 2024
Peace & Friendship Society Of Central Florida Inc FL$192,244 Director $72,773 $76,359 2023
Hope Tutoring Center Inc TX$194,528 Former Exec Dir $24,709 $26,815 2024
The Morgan Oliver School For Anti-racism Inc GA$192,109 Ceo $14,583 $16,378 2023
Alpha Sigma Of Chi Psi Inc NC$194,674 President $21,300 $24,582 2023
Best Resource Center Inc NY$192,042 President $11,600 $11,372 2024
Pratyush Sinha Foundation PA$192,024 Co-executive Director $24,418 $26,417 2024

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to WA 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 WA 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 default80th
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)83rd
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted78th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted69th

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 (Alice Fong) 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 1883 similarly situated organizations (Same NTEE major group (B), nationwide + budget 0.67–1.5× revenue).
  3. The authorized body determined that total compensation of $76,925 is reasonable (approximately the 80th 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.