Tidepool Project

“The Form 990 is prepared by outside accountants and reviewed by the organization's CEO and CFO before filing with the IRS.”

“Enforcement of Conflicts Policy: To ensure the organization operates in a manner consistent with charitable purposes and does not engage in activities that could jeopardize its tax-exempt status, periodic reviews shall be conducted. The periodic reviews shall, at a minimium, include the following subjects: A. Whether compensation arrangements and benefits are reasonable, based on competent survey information, and the result of arm's length bargaining. B. Whether partnerships, joint ventures, and arrangements with management organizations conform to the organization's written policies, are properly recorded, reflect reasonable investment or payments for goods and services, further charitable purposes and do not result in inurement, impermissible private benefit or in an excess benefit transaction within the meaning of the code. Procedure for addressing the conflict of interest: A. An interested person may make a presentation at the governing board or committee meeting, but after the presentation, they shall leave the meeting during the discussion of, and the vote on, the transaction or arrangement involving the possible conflict of interest. B. The chairperson of the governing board or committee shall, if appropriate, appoint a disinterested person or committee to investigate alternatives to the proposed transaction or arrangement. C. After exercising due diligence, the governing board or committee shall determine whether the organization can obtain with reasonable efforts a more advantageous transaction or arrangment from a person or entity that would not give rise to a conflict of interest. D. If a more advantageous transaction or arrangement is not reasonably possible under circumstances not producing a conflict of interest, the governing board or committee shall determine by a majority vote of the disinterested directors whether the transaction or arrangement is in the organization's best interest, for its own benefit, and whether it is fair and reasonable. In conformity with the above determination, it shall make its decision as to whether to enter into the transaction or arrangement.”

“Compensation process for top official the compensation committee reviews and approves all salaries for senior positions (CEO, VP Engineer, VP Product, etc.) Comparable salary data is obtained using Guidestar, Propublica and Radford McLagan Compensation Database.”

“Governing documents disclosure explanation the governing documents, conflict-of-interest policy, and the financial statements are made available on Tidepool Project's website at https://tidepool.org/documents.”

“The organization did not have any changes to its oversight process or selection process during the year.”