Peer Pay 990 · A2 Digital Products

Comparables your board can stand behind.

Pick the role and a dozen peers. Get a two-page report from public Form 990 data with the percentiles the board needs. Runs on your laptop; your data stays there.

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peer pay 990 · comparables

Peer Pay 990 is a desktop tool for nonprofit executive compensation comparables. You choose a position and 8–15 peer organizations by size, sector and region; it pulls their reported compensation from public IRS Form 990 filings and produces a two-page report with a percentile summary a board can use to set or defend pay. It runs on your own computer and keeps your data there. Sold by A2 Digital as a one-time purchase; currently in pre-release.

Public 990 dataPeer selection by size, sector, regionPercentile summaryTwo-page board PDFRuns locallyPre-release

Why boards want it

The comparability data, without the consultant invoice

A fraction of the cost

Compensation consultants charge four figures for a comparables study; data vendors charge annual subscriptions. This is one purchase for a tool you keep.

Defensible process

A documented peer set, public sources and a percentile summary are what a rebuttable-presumption process asks for. The report shows its work.

Nothing uploaded

The tool runs on your laptop. Peer choices, notes and the report stay with you.

How it works

Role, peers, report

Choose the role

Executive director, CEO, CFO, development director and other titled positions found on Form 990 Part VII.

Pick the peers

Filter public nonprofits by revenue band, sector code and state. Add or remove to reach 8–15 that your board would accept as comparable.

Generate the report

Reported compensation per peer, title normalization, and 25th / 50th / 75th percentiles, rendered as a two-page PDF with the peer list and sources.

Pricing

Pre-release pricing

Peer Pay 990

$199one-time

Desktop tool for Windows and macOS. Waitlist now; first release to the list.

Peer finder by revenue, sector and state
Form 990 compensation pull and title normalization
Percentile summary and two-page PDF
Save and reuse peer sets
Email support for 30 days after release
Not a consulting service; peer selection is your judgement

Join the waitlist

Data refresh

$9/month

Optional. Updated 990 extracts as new filings post, plus tool updates.

Refreshed compensation data
Tool updates
Email support

Ask about refresh

Prices in USD. Pre-release: the page describes the planned first version; features and dates may change. Form 990 data lags filings by one to two years, which is normal for comparables work and noted in the report.

Nonprofit boards and compensation committeesExecutive directorsHR and compensation consultantsNonprofit auditors and advisors

Questions

What boards ask first

Where does the compensation data come from?

Public IRS Form 990 filings, Part VII, where nonprofits report officer and key-employee compensation. The tool reads the public e-file data; nothing is scraped from private sources.

Is this enough for the IRS rebuttable presumption?

The presumption needs an independent body, appropriate comparability data, and documentation. Peer Pay 990 helps with the data and the documentation; the board process is yours. The report is built to drop into those minutes.

How do I pick the peers?

Filter by revenue band, sector and state, then use judgement: mission, budget size and geography matter. The tool makes the set easy to build and documents it; it doesn't decide for you, because peer selection is the part a board must own.

How current is the data?

990 data posts one to two years after the fiscal year. The report dates every figure. The optional refresh keeps the extract current as new filings post.

When is it available?

It's in pre-release. Join the waitlist and you'll get the first build and the launch price.

Does it work for Canadian charities?

Not in the first release; it reads IRS Form 990 data, which covers US nonprofits.