United Methodist Homes Foundation Umh Ny Corp

“The organization uses its related party management company, umh management services corp. (see schedule r) ("management services") to perform centralized management functions for the organization. Such centralized services include quality assurance, buildings and ground management, human resources, employee benefits, marketing and public relations, group purchasing, accounting and financial services, budgeting, information technology, insurance contracting, contract review and negotiations, corporate compliance, and other administrative functions. Management services and its related affiliated organizations operate under a board policy of "strong executive" management. All hiring, firing, promotion and demotion decisions are the responsibility of the president / ceo of the united methodist homes.”

“The trust document provides that the trustees shall be the president & chief executive officer and the voting members of the executive/finance committee of the board of directors of the other nine brother / sister related and affiliated organizations. Any other individual may be nominated to serve a one (1) year term as trustee by a majority of the trustees. Such individuals must be approved by the board of directors of the other nine brother / sister related and affiliated organizations.”

“The process by which the organization's officers, directors and trustees, board committee members, and management reviewed the prepared form 990 is as follows: the board did require that the form 990 for all 10 brother / sister related and affiliated organizations be prepared from information compiled by internal staff. A draft copy of the form 990 was then provided to the organization's management, board members and independent public accounting firm with specific expertise in not-for-profit tax return preparation. A detailed review of the form 990 is conducted for any changes or corrections. After review by all of the aforementioned individuals, the independent public accounting firm conducts their final review, signs as paid preparer and assists with the electronic submission of the form 990. Utilizing this methodology, a copy of the form 990 is provided to each voting member of the organization's governing body for review and comment prior to the form 990 being filed.”

“The organization has answered no to the question regarding providing a full copy of form 990 to the board, because it has redacted the name of a donor who wished to remain anonymous. All other information and schedules required to be included with the filing copy of the 990 have been included in the copy provided to the board.”

“Upon election to the board of directors, all directors are required to complete a written conflict of interest form in connection with the organization's conflict of interest policy. The organization also follows the practice of updating officer and directors conflict of interest information in writing annually. The assistant to the ceo monitors the distribution and receipt of the board's written conflict of interest forms. When the completed forms have been received, the assistant to the ceo records and reports conflicts, if any, to the board chair and ceo for their review and further action. All board members and employee personnel are subject to the organization's conflict of interest policies. All employees are required to act independently and without a conflict of interest in the performance of their job duties. In addition, as part of the board member's and employee personnel's training any potential conflict of interest prohibitions and situations are covered and discussed. The organization has established an "oversight compliance committee" composed of directors of the board and staffed by the corporate compliance officer and compliance personnel. All potential conflicts of interest are initially reviewed by the corporate compliance officer, compliance personnel and the management compliance committee and an initial determination of potential conflicts is made. The potential conflict of interest and the initial determination is then provided to, and discussed with the oversight compliance committee of the board which makes the final determination with regards to whether a conflict of interest does, or does not exist. Any person, including board members, officers, directors, key employees and / or managers and all employee personnel are prohibited by the board conflict of interest policy from participating in any transaction in which the oversight compliance committee has determined that a conflict of interest exists. The oversight compliance committee makes reports of its activities directly to the board of the organization. Any person found to have knowingly violated the organization's conflict of interest policy is subject to disciplinary action and / or dismissal. Board members are generally reminded from time-to-time at board and committee meetings of the organization's conflict of interest policy. Board and committee members are asked to disclose any issue or matter in which they have a conflict as indicated above. They are also asked to abstain from voting on such matters. Employees are reminded about potential conflicts of interest through our corporate and mandatory training programs.”

“All ten entities are under common control and follow the same compensation process. The board of directors has established a management and personnel committee comprised of board members having no conflict of interest with respect to compensation and benefit matters to be established for all senior executives employed by the organization. The board committee utilizes study data as to comparable compensation for similarly qualified persons in functionally comparable positions in similarly situated organizations in its deliberations. Data has been compiled using an industry job description / classification compensation study which focuses on multi-organization, multi-location, multi-level care senior living service organizations in the united states for comparative compensation information which is compared to the united methodist home's senior executive compensation levels. United methodist home's key employee and executive compensation levels are reviewed annually by the management and personnel committee and are subsequently incorporated, upon approval by the board, into the organization's annual budget. These discussions are documented in the committee minutes.”

“The organization does not make any of these documents directly available to the public, but they are available upon specific request.”

“On an annual basis, the organization provides a questionnaire to all board members which addresses any potential business or family relationship between officers, directors, trustees, or key employees. Based on the responses, there are no family or business relationships identified between officers, directors, trustees, or key employees which would require disclosure on the form 990.”

“As previously disclosed in schedule o, the board of directors is a common board. The time spent as reported on part vii is for this organization as well as the related organizations reported on schedule r.”

“Valuation gain, beneficial interest in perpetual trust 2,374,611.”

“The organization has a committee that assumes responsibility over the audit. Neither the oversight process nor selection process has changed since the prior year.”

“All w-2 forms are issued by umh managemnt services corp., ein# 16-1486032, which acts as the common paymaster for all related entities operating under the brand name "united methodist homes". No w-2 forms have been issued directly by this entity.”