Compensation Intelligence
Your board has the compensation data. Now you do.
Free personalized benchmark reports for hospital, university, and nonprofit executives — built from a decade of IRS Form 990 filings with forward-looking projections.
No cost. No sales call. Takes 60 seconds.
The Problem
The information gap nobody talks about
Your institution pays thousands for SullivanCotter surveys. Your HR department has CUPA-HR data locked behind participation agreements. Your board hired a compensation consultant at $15,000 to produce a study.
You got a two-year-old 990 printout from ProPublica.
This is how it works in nonprofit executive compensation. The institution has real-time, granular data. The executive — the person whose career and livelihood actually depend on it — pieces together stale tax filings and informal conversations with recruiters.
When it's time to negotiate, you're sitting across from people who know more about your market value than you do.
That's the gap we close.
Your Report
A benchmark report worth bringing to the table
This is not a one-page salary estimate. It's a comprehensive compensation analysis built from the same public filings your board's consultants use — organized, normalized, and projected forward.
Peer institution comparisons
Filtered by region, institution type, budget size, and mission area. Not “healthcare executives nationally” — your actual peer group.
Salary bands by role
25th percentile, median, and 75th percentile for your specific position at comparable institutions. See exactly where you fall.
Named peers
Who holds your role at peer institutions, and what they reported on their most recent Form 990. Public data, organized for the first time.
Forward projections
990 data is 12–18 months old by the time it’s published. We analyze multi-year compensation trends at your peer institutions and project forward to current market rates.
Charts and context
Visualizations that make the data clear enough to hand to your board, your compensation committee, or your attorney.
The Method
Built on public record. Projected to today.
Every 501(c)(3) in the country files an IRS Form 990. Every Form 990 discloses what the organization pays its key executives. That's hundreds of thousands of compensation data points, filed annually, going back over a decade.
The problem is that nobody has made this data usable. Raw 990s are PDFs with inconsistent formatting. Job titles aren't standardized. A “Vice President” at a community health center and a “Vice President” at a $2 billion health system appear in the same dataset with no distinction.
Our platform normalizes a decade of 990 filings — standardizing titles, matching peer institutions by type and size, and building compensation trend lines that project forward to current market conditions.
The result is a personalized benchmark that's more current than GuideStar, more accessible than SullivanCotter, and built for the executive — not the institution.
Multi-year compensation trends projected to current market
Who It's For
Built for executives in mission-driven organizations
Hospital and Health System Leaders
CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, COOs, and VPs at nonprofit hospitals and health systems. You operate in one of the most complex compensation environments in the country — incentive structures, physician alignment, Stark Law considerations. Your board has SullivanCotter. Now you have a credible independent benchmark too.
University and College Administrators
Presidents, provosts, deans, VPs, and chief business officers. Compensation in higher education is shaped by shared governance, public scrutiny, and peer group debates your faculty senate will never stop having. CUPA-HR data is locked behind institutional participation. Yours isn’t locked anymore.
Nonprofit Executive Directors and C-Suite
CEOs, executive directors, and senior leaders at foundations, associations, and social-sector organizations. You face the “overhead myth” every budget cycle — boards that want top talent but worry about how compensation looks to donors. A third-party benchmark takes the opinion out of it.
Methodology
The data behind the report
Public source, private analysis.
Every data point in your report traces back to an IRS Form 990 filing — the same source your board's compensation consultants use, the same source the IRS itself relies on to evaluate “reasonableness.” We don't survey. We don't estimate. We organize what's already on the public record and project it forward using documented trend methodology.
IRS Section 4958 ready.
Nonprofit boards are required to use comparable data when setting executive compensation — it's how they establish the “rebuttable presumption of reasonableness” that protects both the organization and the executive from intermediate sanctions. Our reports are structured to serve as that comparable data, documented and defensible.
Free & Confidential
Know what the market says you're worth.
One report. Your peers. Your role. Your market. Projections that account for the 18 months the IRS doesn't. No cost. No obligation. No sales call unless you want one.
- Your report is generated in minutes, not weeks
- Auditable sources — every number traces to a 990 filing
- Confidential by default — we never share your data
- Request data deletion at any time