Sanford Group Return

“The following officers, board members, and key employees are employees of sanford or its related organizations. Many of these employees also serve on other related sanford boards, or have business relationships with each other that span the organization as a whole: bill gassen, jennifer grennan, mark lundeen, michael lebeau, michelle bruhn, paul hanson, matt hocks, todd schaffer, bill marlette, karla eischens & tiffany lawrence.”

“Sanford is governed by a board of trustees (bot) that has ultimate strategic and decision making authority. The bot delegates certain activities and responsibilities to boards of each of sanford's primary operating subsidiaries. The unique nature and complexity of the subsidiaries requires each to have a delegated board with a singular entity focus. Such bodies, referred to as boards of directors and boards of governors, address matters such as credentialing, accreditation standards, developing budgets, programs and facilities on an entity-specific basis, and generally consist of individuals distinct from the bot. These boards function much like committees in a traditional corporate structure. The bot then acts as a holding company board, synthesizing and reconciling each entity's programs and budgets into a system-wide strategic plan. This structure of governance produces a significant number of trustees, governors and directors. Subsidiaries included within this group tax return consist of sanford health, sanford north, sanford medical center, sanford medical center fargo, sanford clinic, sanford clinic north, sanford health network, sanford health network north, sanford home health, sanford research, sanford research north, sanford world clinics, sanford health of northern minnesota, baker park, inc., sanford west, sanford bismarck, sanford virtual care, and sanford world clinics - klamath falls. The board of trustees of sanford is also the board of trustees for sanford health, sanford north, and sanford west, and sanford is the sole corporate member of these entities. These entities, in turn, are the sole corporate members of their subsidiaries. The actions approved by a subsidiary's board of directors are then approved by the sanford board of trustees.”

“The sanford board of trustees appoints the board members for the boards of directors and boards of governors of the subsidiary entities.”

“The sanford board of trustees approves the actions approved by the boards of directors and boards of governors of the subsidiary entities. Form 990, part vi, section b, line 10b: sanford north, sanford clinic and sanford health network have local chapters, branches or affiliates over which the organization has the legal authority to exercise direct or indirect supervision and control.”

“The form 990 is prepared internally by the tax department and reviewed by executive management. The tax department prepares return highlights and key disclosures for the executive management team. An external accounting firm reviews and signs the return. Before the return is filed, a complete copy is provided to the current board of trustees.”

“The annual conflict of interest disclosure process is managed by the chief compliance officer (cco). The cco is responsible for assuring that all completed forms are returned in a timely and complete manner. Conflict of interest questionnaires are sent to system trustees, members of the governing boards of subsidiary entities, officers, and key employees for all entities subject to the irs form 990 filings. The disclosures are summarized for review by the executive committee of the board of trustees, pursuant to policy. This review allows: 1) the board to acquire an awareness of financial relationships of board members and key management employees and can invoke the recusal process on a case-by-case basis if potential conflicts are implicated in board decisions and deliberations, and, 2) gives the board the opportunity to seek additional information and clarification about disclosures to determine potential conflicts of interest, and how to manage them.”

“Sanford has a process for determining compensation of the persons listed on part vii, section a. This includes a review and approval by independent persons, review of comparability data and contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation and decision for such compensation. Sanford engages a nationally recognized independent compensation consulting firm annually to review the total compensation arrangements of the officers and executives of the organization, including the ceo, and to report the findings to them for deliberation and action. The deliberations and actions are recorded in the minutes of the sanford board of trustees. The most recent study was completed in 2023. Part vi, line 16a: sanford medical center, sanford health, and sanford clinic north have participated in joint ventures with taxable entities.”

“Although the organization does not maintain a website where the public can access these documents, it would respond individually to any requests or inquiries from the public for these documents.”

“The table reports the compensation of the sanford officers, directors/trustees, system key employees, and five highest compensated employees and independent contractors. The sanford board of trustees has ultimate governance responsibilities for each subordinate organization.”

“We are reporting one group of top five employees and independent contractors for the entire group. Amounts listed as compensation for the five highest compensated independent contractors include payments for both materials and services.”

“Sanford health, sanford medical center, sanford north, sanford medical center fargo, sanford clinic north, sanford clinic, sanford bismarck, sanford health network north, and sanford world clinics have unrelated business gross income over $1,000.”

“Sanford world clinics has an interest in financial accounts in the foreign countries of ghana, china and germany.”

“Cash sweep for pooled investments -221,754,853. Pension plan acturial gain/loss -10,318,072. Capital contributions to affiliates -21,454,958.”

“Form 990, page 1, line h(a) - listing of subordinate organizations: names, addresses, and eins sanford health 1305 w 18th street, po box 5039 sioux falls, sd 57117-5039 ein: 31-1527032 sanford medical center 1305 w 18th street, po box 5039 sioux falls, sd 57117-5039 ein: 46-0227855 sanford home health 1305 w 18th street, po box 5039 sioux falls, sd 57117-5039 ein: 46-0282134 sanford health network 1305 w 18th street sioux falls, sd 57105 ein: 46-0388596 sanford clinic 1305 w 18th street, po box 5039 sioux falls, sd 57117-5039 ein: 46-0447693 sanford research 2301 e 60th street n sioux falls, sd 57104 ein: 46-0450378 sanford research north 120 8th street south fargo, nd 58103 ein: 45-0274828 sanford world clinics 1305 w 18th street sioux falls, sd 57105 ein: 26-2707628 sanford world clinics - klamath falls 3001 daggett ave klamath falls, or 97601 92-0396212 sanford north 801 broadway drive, po box 2010 fargo, nd 58122 ein: 45-0385890 sanford clinic north 801 broadway drive, po box 2010 fargo, nd 58122 ein: 91-1770748 sanford medical center fargo 801 broadway drive, po box 2010 fargo, nd 58122 ein: 45-0226909 sanford health network north 801 broadway drive, po box 2010 fargo, nd 58122 ein: 45-0409348 sanford health of northern minnesota 1300 anne street nw bemidji, mn 56601 ein: 41-1266009 baker park, inc. 803 dewey avenue nw bemidji, mn 56601 ein: 41-1372480 sanford west 300 n 7th street bismarck, nd 58501 ein: 45-0397195 sanford bismarck 300 n 7th street bismarck, nd 58501 ein: 45-0226700 sanford virtual care 1305 w 18th street, po box 5039 sioux falls, sd 57117-5039 ein: 88-0976483”