Georgia Appleseed Inc.

“The finance committee first reviews the federal return. Upon review, the return is forwarded to the board of directors for review.”

“The board is required to annually recertify that they have no conflicts of interest through signed agreements. These agreements are kept on file.”

“The executive committee is responsible for conducting annual performance review and annual compensation review of executive director. The executive committee considers outside data, regarding compensation of eds at similar types and sizes of organizations in atlanta, to evaluate executive director's salary.”

“The key employees are reviewed annually by the executive director pursuant to the personnel manual's policies. Compensation is reviewed by the ed at that time. The ed has access to the workforgood.org wage and benefits report for salary comparisons.”

“Georgia appleseed makes form 1023 and form 990 available for public inspection at its main office. In addition, form 990 is available on the organization's website and through other published, public sites.”

“Georgia appleseed performs its mission in large part by utilizing pro bono services provided by georgia's legal community. Irs instructions for the main schedules of form 990 do not allow for the reporting of donated services and facilities elsewhere on this form. However, the value is reported on the organization's audited financial statements, as required by generally accepted accounting principles. For the year ended june 30, 2017, the organization received 867,888 (812,616 for the year ended june 30, 2016) in contributed professional services, and 60,450 (64,958 for the year ended june 30, 2016) in contributed facilities, which should be added to the revenues shown on form 990 to determine total support. When these revenues are considered, program services related to the mission of georgia appleseed account for 83.5% of every dollar spent (calculated from the organization's audited financial statements for the year ended june 30,2017.)”

“Georgia heirs property law center, which provides pro bono legal services statewide to georgians with heirs property issues, was launched as an independent entity effective january 1, 2017, after being created and incubated by georgia appleseed.”