Brown University Research Foundation

“Christina paxson is an employee and an officer of brown university. Francis j doyle, jill pipher and sarah latham are all employed by brown university and reported as key employees for the university's form 990 filing.”

“The president of brown university who is also the president of brown university research foundation is a member who has the right to appoint board members and make governance decisions unilaterally.”

“Burf does not have any other committee which has authority to act on behalf of the governing body.”

“The tax return is prepared by the university's tax consultants and reviewed by the controller's office. A copy of the form 990 is not made available to the governing body before filing as the controller's office is authorized to file the 990 on the governing body's behalf.”

“In practice, burf adheres to brown university's policies and procedures. Brown university has a written conflict of interest policy, a written whistleblower policy and a written document retention & destruction policy.”

“All compensation was paid by brown university (ein: 05-0258809). Burf does not pay compensation for serving on the board of burf.”

“Burf is part of the university's consolidated financial statements. The university's financial statements, conflict of interest policies, and governing documents (charters and statutes) are made available to the public upon request and on their website. The burf form 990 is available upon request and additionally on guidestar. All other documents are available upon request.”

“The brown university research foundation (burf) was established for the purpose of supporting academic scholarship and scientific research in the public interest for the benefit of brown university and to assist in carrying out the education and research purposes of brown university.”

“Brown university's financial statements include the accounts of the john nicholas brown center for the study of american civilizations, brown faculty club and brown university research foundation. All of which are separate entities that are consolidated in the financial statements. Brown university and these consolidated entities are collectively referred to herein as the university. All significant inter-entity transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation.”