Rural India Supporting Trust

“Family or business relationships Indu Rawat and Shweta Rawat have a family relationship.”

“Significant changes made to the organization's governing documents rists trust agreement was amended and restated to clarify that rist is a supporting organization within the meaning of section 509(a)(3) of the internal revenue code (the "code"), controlled by the hans foundation within the meaning of section 509(a)(3)(b)(i) of the code, and under section 501(c)(3) of the code, and rist is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of the hans foundation (the "controlling charity") and, as a designated class, those organizations that would qualify as tax-exempt publicly supported organizations described in section 509(a)(1) or 509(a)(2) of the code the benefits to which carry out the purposes of the controlling charity and that are organized and operated to advance public health, education or economic opportunity in india. Form 990, part vi, line 7a members of the organization under section 4.1 of the amended and restated rist trust agreement, the trustee has the power to appoint at least one member of the rist board of directors, and the controlling charity has the power to appoint at least two members of the board of directors; provided that, at all times, the majority of the board will be composed of representatives of the controlling charity.”

“Process used to review the form 990 a copy of the form 990 is circulated to the board of directors for review and comment prior to billing. The 990 is prepared by a public accounting firm.”

“Monitoring & enforcement of compliance with conflict of interest policy all officers, directors, trustee, and key employees annually review the conflicts of interest policy. They sign an annual statement stating that they received a copy of the conflicts of interest policy, read and understand the policy, and state that they have no actual or possible conflicts of interest. The board of directors is responsible for reviewing the disclosures. Any person who is determined to have a conflict of interest is recused from voting on the matter.”

“Form 990 is available to the public on the foundation directory at foundationcenter.org.”

“Process for making documents available to the public the organization does not make its governing documents, conflicts of interest policy, or financial statements available to the public.”

“Miscellaneous revenue is for repayment of compensation for shweta rawat, a director and officer of rist and a family member of the trustee of rist.”