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Compensation Comparability Determination

Lions Roar Foundation

Executive Director / CEO

EIN 980549367
· NTEE X50
FY ending 2024-12-31
June 13, 2026

This analysis benchmarks the total compensation of Melvin Mcleod, Executive Director / CEO ($80,419) against every comparable organization that fit the selection criteria — 736 in total — drawn systematically from IRS Form 990 filings, not a hand-picked subset.

Compensation sits at approximately the 43rd percentile of comparable organizationswithin the typical range

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

How comparable organizations were selected

736 organizations qualified on sector, size, and geography 736 within the band form the benchmarked peer set.

Distribution of comparable compensation

$935 total compensation of comparable organizations → $750,000 $80,419
$27,53410th
$53,24825th
$89,032Median
$130,90375th
$183,09390th
$80,419This org · 43rd
p10$27,534
p25$53,248
p50$89,032
p75$130,903
p90$183,093
$80,419

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); the reported amount is on each linked 990.

OrganizationStateRevenueMatched titleComp
(reported)
Comp
(adjusted)
FY
Time Out Youth Inc NC$1,501,635 Executive Dir. $144,935 $144,935 2024
Cancare Inc TX$1,502,091 Ceo $159,167 $159,167 2024
Becoming Love Ministries Assn OK$1,500,341 Founder $221,202 $227,736 2023
Mission 17 Inc ID$1,502,898 President $33,333 $33,333 2024
Silent Word Ministries Inc GA$1,499,857 President $50,567 $50,567 2024
🔒 731 more comparable organizations — included in the purchased report

Comp (reported) is the figure on each organization's Form 990 (columns D + F); Comp (adjusted) normalizes it to the subject's state 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. 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 default43rd
Total compensation (D + F), as reported (no adjustments)43rd
Reportable pay only (column D), adjusted49th
All sources (D + E + F), adjusted40th

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:

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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 13, 2026.