Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania

“Gwp is a membership network for philanthropies. Its voting members include family and independent foundations, community foundations, corporate foundations, corporate contribution programs, federations, and public charities that have grantmaking as a central activity. Individuals who have retired from employment at a member's organization are also eligible to remain associate members of gwp on a non-voting basis.”

“The members of gwp vote annually to elect members to its board of directors, approve the next year's membership dues structure, and approve the organization's annual budget. Each member organization casts one vote.”

“There is no committee with authority to act on behalf of the governing body.”

“The form 990 is reviewed by the executive director, then reviewed by gwp's finance committee. The form 990 is then reviewed by the full board of directors, which approves the form 990 prior to filing with the irs.”

“Each member of the board of directors, each officer, and each member of senior management must complete an annual disclosure statement reflecting his or her interests. The executive director (in consultation with executive committee, as appropriate) is responsible for reviewing the disclosure statements so that he or she is familiar with and can report actual or potential conflicts of interest. In addition, each individual board member, officer, and member of senior management is personally responsible for disclosing his/her actual or potential conflicts, and for bringing attention to actual or potential conflicts of other officers, members of senior management, or other board members at the time gwp is considering a transaction that may involve a conflict or appearance of a conflict.”

“Gwp's process for determining compensation for the executive director is as follows: to determine compensation, on an annual basis gwp's president invites feedback from board members on the executive director's job performance and aggregates it. The executive director also provides a self-evaluation to the president. The gwp board of directors reviews the collected information in executive session and determines any changes in compensation based on consideration of: 1) updated benchmark data on compensation for ceos of other comparable regional associations of grantmakers, 2) current benchmark data on compensation for ceos of local nonprofit agencies, 3) increases in the cost of living, and 4) executive performance. In 2019, gwp additionally engaged a third-party hr consultant to benchmark compensation for all of its staff, including the executive director. This information was also shared with its board of directors as part of the review. There are no other officers that receive compensation and there are no key employees.”

“Gwp posts its financial statement and form 990 on its website. These documents, as well as the form 1023, are also available upon written request.”