The Cooper Foundation Inc

“In connection with a coordinated approach as an overall health care system, all accounts payable transactions, forms 1096 and w-3, are processed by the cooper health system, a new jersey non-profit corporation (ein: 21-0634462).”

“Family/business relationships jeffrey brown & anne e. Koons - family relationship; jack tarditi & deborah l. Krauss-kelleher - business relationship; jeffrey brown & philip a. Norcorss - business relationship; certain listed officers and board members also serve as officers and board members of related taxable organizations.”

“Members or stockholders cooper health system is the sole member of this organization. Cooper health system has the right to elect the members of this organization's board of trustees and has certain reserved powers as defined in this organization's bylaws.”

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“Form 990 review process as part of the tax return preparation process, the organization hired a professional cpa firm with experience and expertise in both healthcare and not-for-profit tax return preparation to prepare the federal form 990. The cpa firm's tax professionals worked closely with the organization's finance personnel and other senior management members of the organization and the system to obtain the information needed in order to prepare a complete and accurate tax return. The cpa firm prepared a draft federal form 990 and furnished it to the organization's finance personnel and other senior management members for their review. The organization's finance personnel and other senior management members reviewed the draft federal form 990 and discussed questions and comment with the cpa firm. Revisions were made to the draft federal form 990, where necessary, and a final draft was furnished by the cpa firm to the organization's finance personnel and other senior management members for further review and approval. The form 990 is then presented to and reviewed by the members of the cooper health system audit/ethics & compliance committee of the board of trustees. The bylaws of the board of trustees provide that this committee of the board review the annual federal tax return prior to its filing. Once that committee's review and approval process has concluded, the completed form 990 is shared with the entire board prior to its filing with the irs.”

“The organization regularly monitors and enforces compliance with its conflict-of-interest policy. Included within the annual conflict of interest questionnaire, required of all members of the board of trustees, officers, and senior management, is an attestation that they have reviewed the existing conflict of interest policy. In addition, in the past, a separate questionnaire was issued to address questions from the irs form 990. For tax year 2024, the organization piloted a questionnaire which incorporated questions from the irs form 990 into the annual conflict of interest questionnaire, rather than requesting trustees, officers and key employees to complete separate questionnaires. The completed questionnaire is returned to the compliance office and reviewed by the compliance and legal departments. Responses, including potential for risk, is presented annually to the audit/ethics & compliance committee of the cooper board of trustees for their review, discussion and concurrence. Potential or actual disclosures during the year, which rise to the level of audit/ethics review, are brought to their attention no later than quarterly by the general counsel. A special meeting of audit/ethics would be held should it be necessary. Any person with a conflict is advised to, and expected to, recuse themselves from any discussion, deliberation and determination regarding the conflicted transaction. This recusal is reflected in the meeting minutes.”

“The process the related organization, the cooper health system, uses for determining the compensation of senior executives is compliant with the requirements of internal revenue code section 4958 to enable the organization to receive the rebuttable presumption of reasonableness: 1. The organization's bylaws charge the audit/ethics & compliance committee with the role of approving the selection of an executive compensation consulting firm and the services, including the methodology that will be employed by that firm, confirms the independence of the executive compensation survey and thereafter recommends to the executive committee of the board the executive compensation survey prepared by the outside consultant. The audit/ethics & compliance committee is comprised entirely of independent members and no member of the committee is either: a member of the board's finance committee or an ex officio member of the board, or; has had any material financial dealings with the organization, or; otherwise has a conflict or duality of interest or the appearance of a conflict or duality of interest with the organization; 2. The selected outside consulting firm prepares a written, detailed report reviewing compensation for more than 20 senior executives, which documents relevant market comparability data, as well as the methodology, job matches, and survey sources used for the executive compensation review, and includes the firm's opinion that the executives' compensation falls within a reasonable range of competitive market practice applicable to like positions among like organizations under like circumstances, for purposes of compliance with section 4958 of the internal revenue code; 3. The executive committee of the board is the required internal approval agent for executive compensation. In that role the committee reviews and considers all recommendations made by the audit/ethics & compliance committee, reviews and approves the report of the outside consulting firm, approves compensation for the affected executives based upon the report and recommendations, and where applicable, recommends to the full board any actions which the committee deems necessary in response to the outside consulting firm's report; 4. The actions of both the audit/ethics & compliance and executive committees are documented in the minutes of the committee meetings. Additionally, the executive committee monitors the organization's compliance with policy regarding compensation of employed physicians. By organization policy, the full board must approve all new and renewed physician contracts for: chiefs and/or institute medical directors; all other physicians who report directly to the organization's president and chief executive officer; all physicians whose base compensation exceeds the 75th percentile of mgma benchmark data; all physicians who are either corporate officer or board or committee members, and; all physicians who have an interest in any entity that refers business to the organization or otherwise has disclosed a potential conflict of interest in his/her annual disclosure survey or supplementary disclosure.”

“The organization's governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and audited financial statements would be made available to the public at management's discretion.”

“The foundation hosts a variety of signature events throughout the year that raise funds to support the mission of cooper which includes but is not limited to: cooper red hot gala, pink roses teal magnolias for breast and gynecologic cancer research and clinical programs, the jim fifis lung cancer research fund and a tribute to children's regional hospital. In addition to specific events for giving, the foundation provides opportunities for donors to support programs and initiatives focused on patient care and education, community programs, and research to support better treatments and cures. The foundation also provides the options to honor, celebrate or remember a loved one, express gratitude to a member of a loved one's care team, or to celebrate a life milestone or special occasion through a gift that support programs or services for our patients, families and the community. As cooper's community outreach arm, the foundation builds strong partnerships with local civic associations, non-profit providers and other organizations to support housing rehabilitation and community development projects, education initiatives, community health outreach, workforce development efforts, and other initiatives that support revitalization and the children and families in camden.”