Ucare Foundation

“Ucare foundation has an administrative service agreement with ucare minnesota to provide overall management and administration of ucare foundation's business. Ucare foundation's business includes, but is not limited to, accounting, investment management, and grant administration services. For the year ended december 31, 2023, ucare minnesota provided these services to ucare foundation as a donation of their time and talent. The value of these services aren't reflected as non-cash contributions on part viii, line 1 as the irs doesn't allow for the reporting of donated services in the form 990.”

“The sole member of this corporation is ucare minnesota, a minnesota nonprofit corporation.”

“The sole corporate member of ucare foundation is ucare minnesota, which elects the directors for the ucare foundation.”

“The following rights are reserved to the power of the member of the organization: (1) the number of board of members, (2) the terms of each board member, (3) any elected or appointed director may be removed from office with or without cause by the member, (4) vacancies in the board of directors shall be filled by the member, (5) appoint an executive committee, (6) appoint a finance and audit committee, (7) appoint individuals to serve as the ucare foundation council.”

“The form 990 was prepared by the controller and reviewed by an independent accounting firm. Ucare provided a copy and reviewed the detail of the completed form 990 with the board's finance, audit & business development committee. Ucare also provided a copy of the completed form 990 to all members of the board of directors via on-line portal prior to the finance, audit & business development committee's report to the board. Upon approval by the board of directors, the form 990 was filed with the internal revenue service.”

“Ucare foundation requires completion of an annual questionnaire by its board members, officers, and senior executives, which is designed to surface potential conflicts of interest. In addition, ucare's policy requires disclosure to the board chair and/or ceo of a potential conflict involving a director, officer, or management staff when a particular transaction arises. If the board or designated board committee determines that a potential conflict exists related to a transaction requiring action by the board, the policy calls for the board member with the potential conflict to abstain from voting. In addition, a majority of the disinterested directors must find that the transaction is fair and reasonable to the operation and that the organization could not reasonably find a more advantageous transaction from another entity without a potential conflict. The policy requires disclosure of potential conflicts to the board or designated committee even for transactions not requiring board action.”

“Ucare foundation's 990 form is available on third-party websites such as guidestar and propublica, in addition to being made available upon request.”

“Ucare foundation's governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements are available upon request.”

“The ucare foundation supplies grants to organizations that distribute food to those in need across the metro and greater minnesota. With medicaid redetermination, reductions in snap benefits, depleted food shelf inventory and rising cost of groceries, these grants helped fill the gap for many seniors, adults, and families in need. In 2023, the ucare foundation sanctioned and allocated an additional $103,337,170 in grant funding to sixty-six organizations, including minnesota counties, tribes, collaborations, or other non-profits, to propel local public health priorities. These funds were directed towards projects targeting the following specific areas: - preventive health - mental health - health equity - quality initiatives ucare foundation has a formal board that oversees and approves annual grant awards. The board meets annually to determine priority areas of focus for current year solicitations. Grantees apply via an online grant system and all organizations must meet funding eligibility guidelines. Grant applications are reviewed by ucare minnesota-assigned individuals as well members of the ucare foundation board. Once approved, grantees sign a conditions of grant agreement and are responsible to submit an interim and final report as well as participate in a site visit by ucare staff. The board of directors receives an annual report on the use of the funds. Ucare ensures the recipient is a qualified charity or government agency and receives periodic reports from the organizations. Leap pediatric and adolescent care is a nonprofit community-based practice that focuses on advancing health equity and removing barriers to health and wellness. Leap was started in 2022 with grant assistance from the ucare foundation in st. Paul's hamline-midway area, and area that is a federally designated primary care health professional shortage area. The grant's goals were to support leap's work to assess for and address social risk factors by connecting families to needed resources, to help families access mental health and substance use disorder services, for outreach efforts and to implement a program to support pregnant and newly parenting families. The success of leap is measured by meeting clinical quality metrics, financial stability, patient/family satisfaction, collaboration with public health, community-serving organizations, and other healthcare organizations on health promotion initiatives, and supporting other providers who are also interested in building a community-based practice. We are in the second year of a two-year grant cycle.”