Nonprofit Comparables AssessorTM

GuideStar is pleased to be affiliated with Economic Research Institute (ERI). ERI's Nonprofit Comparables Assessor is an easy-to-use desktop program that converts the compensation data nonprofits report to the IRS on Forms 990, 990-EZ, and 990-PF into infinite combinations of reports and analyses. It can assist organizations in attracting, retaining, and motivating their key executive staff. Interactive graphs and screens present data from 3 million-plus forms representing more than 20 million incumbents.

Professional Edition Nonprofit Comparables Assessor (CA) is for salary planning; features include:

  • Search, rank, and sort by subsector, geographic area, date, and size (revenue, assets, or grants)
  • Calculate average competitive compensation levels, along with user selected ranges and percentiles, for more than 100 nonprofit executive job titles and functions
  • Provide benchmarks for compensation planning from the most recent publicly available data
  • Include information from the 100,000 nonprofit organizations that pay within one standard deviation of the competitive average
  • Access source documents from the most recently digitized Forms 990, 990-EZ, and 990-PF (source data OCR/digitized by ERI, GuideStar, and Urban Institute under license) with an Internet link to the ERI Forms Library
  • $889/annual subscription

Consultant Edition Comparables Assessor (CA+) & Tax-Exempt Survey is for in-depth research for consulting, board governance, or litigation support. Features include:

  • All Professional Edition CA data and features, plus sophisticated analyses tools
  • Access source documents with one click (on a "square dot")—from the most recently digitized Forms 990, 990-EZ, and 990-PF (source data OCR/digitized by ERI or supplied by GuideStar and the Urban Institute, under license)
  • Adds all organizations above, below, and beyond ±1.0 standard deviations, enabling analyses of outliers, including Web searches for directors or officers earning $0
  • Adds business contractor as a "position" to allow analysis of Schedule A contractor data
  • Adds historic data for over 200,000 organizations, over 23 million lines of data, some starting in 1992
  • Enhances CA with tabs for other research, comparable peer analysis, filings, history, trend, and additional analyses
  • Provides the ability to group peer organizations, the detailed compensation comparables needed for a "rebuttable presumption of reasonableness" that protects an exempt organization from the imposition of intermediate sanctions taxes, penalties, and interest by the IRS (IRC 4958)
  • Used by consultants, attorneys, and accountants, as well as foundations and large national organizations (both the NY State AG Office and IRS National TEE are multi-copy subscribers); reports rates of error, satisfies Daubert Challenge rules
  • With a PAS or CAS subscription, incorporates ERI Executive Compensation Assessor & Survey data (shown as a "round dot") allowing the comparison of for-profit comparables from publicly traded entities (data gathered from SEC 10-Ks and proxies, 1994 to present) should that subscription concurrently exist; this data has been used by the IRS National Appeals Office since 1989
  • $2389/annual subscription