Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc

“A questionnaire/review checklist accompanies the draft form 990. The checklist highlights key areas to be reviewed and indicates corresponding page references on the 990. After review by senior staff of the guide dog foundation, a final draft version of the form 990 will be e-mailed to all board members as well as verbally described to visually impaired board members, as requested. The form 990 will be finalized after all questions and concerns are addressed.”

“Disclosure statements are collected and reviewed annually. Any potential conflicts are disclosed to the full board and addressed as required.”

“The compensation of the president and ceo, chief of staff, and any employee that meets the key employee criteria as defined by the irs, is reviewed by the compensation committee, and recommendations provided to the executive committee of the board for approval as per the bylaws. Persons with conflict of interest with respect to the compensation arrangement at issue are not involved in this review and approval. The compensation of the president and ceo, chief of staff, and any employee that meets the key employee criteria as defined by the irs is reviewed and approved using independent research studies, chosen by the compensation committee. Research studies are based upon current comparable position at similarly situated organizations. There is contemporaneous documentation and record keeping to the deliberations and decisions regarding the compensation arrangement. Compensation is incentive/goal based. Goals are prepared in the prior fiscal year, and approved by the compensation committee. The recommendations provided to the executive committee from the compensation committee compare actual performance against the established goals, and are applied to compensation ranges derived from the independent research studies.”

“The foundation's governing documents and conflict of interest policy are available to the public upon written request. Financial statements and form 990 are available upon written request and are also available at www.guidedog.org and guidestar.org.”

“America's vetdogs is a related organization of the guide dog foundation. The two organizations have overlapping missions and operations, whereby the costs of running the entities are shared, with the majority of costs being paid initially by the guide dog foundation. Costs, inclusive of salary costs, are then allocated to america's vetdogs based upon the number of america's vetdogs teams placed during the year. America's vetdogs has no direct employees.”

“The process has not changed from the prior year.”