The Onestar Foundation

“Board members are appointed by the governor of texas.”

“A draft of the return is reviewed by the audit committee with the preparing cpa. A final draft of the return is sent to the entire board prior to filing.”

“The organization relies on self-disclosure for monitoring the conflict of interest policy.”

“Onestar foundaton uses a compensation matrix which has a guideline for setting salaries. The matrix has an allowable minimum and maximum salary for each position. The president approves the amount of salary paid to each individual and the board approves the president's salary. No board members are compensated.”

“The organization's governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements are all available upon request.”

“The allocation of average hours for the president and controller between the foundation and the related organization (onestar national service commission) represents the time the president and controller spent on each entity's matters. The commission has no employees of its own, thus the total amount of officer salary is reported on form 990, part ix, line 5.”

“Program consultants: program service expenses 337,072. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 337,072. Hr consultants: program service expenses 2,736. Management and general expenses 876. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 3,612. Other consultants: program service expenses 3,000. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 3,000. Recruitment: program service expenses 944. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 944. Other professional services: program service expenses 1,900. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 1,900.”

“Onestar foundation received a grant from the corporation for national and community service (cncs) to establish and operate an intermediary project under the americorps vista program, pursuant to the federal domestic volunteer service act. Under this intermediary project, onestar foundation processed payroll and issued w2s for forty (40) americorps vista members serving terms of service in 2016. The vista members are considered federal employees for the limited purpose set forth by cncs and are not employees of onestar. In order to maintain separation between the vista members and onestar foundation's employees, onestar established a second ein (47-4835946) for the intermediary project, as recommended by cncs.”

“During the year, onestar foundation entered into a co-employment agreement with a professional employer organization (peo), nextep business solutions. Onestar foundation filed 16 w-2s for the portion of 2016 that employees were paid by onestar prior to the co-employment agreement. The peo filed another 16 w-2s for the portion of the year that onestar employees were a part of the peo. In total, 32 w-2s were filed for 2016 to report compensation paid to 17 employees of onestar foundation.”