Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center

“Gcb's finance committee is the primary governing body responsible for the oversight of gcb's audited financial statements, 990 and 990-t tax returns. The draft tax returns, once reviewed and approved by management, are provided to the finance committee for their review and approval. Once the finance committee approves the draft tax returns, copies of the entire draft tax returns are provided to the entire board of trustees prior to the filing of the tax returns. The finance committee acts on behalf of the full board. The finance committee chair will report on the review of the draft tax returns to the full board of trustees.”

“Our conflict of interest policy which has been approved by the board is provided to all board members, officers and management staff. They are required to complete and sign the policy statement requiring that persons comply with the disclosure requirements and voting and membership prohibitions set in the policy. As part of this policy, they are required to complete and sign a conflict of interest questionnaire. This questionnaire requires that persons listed above identify and disclose all affiliations or interests with facilities they or immediate family members have a relationship with. These questionnaires are reviewed by the ceo. The cfo reviews the ceo's completed questionnaire. Our conflict of interest policy addresses duties to disclose financial interests, duty to disclose relationships with certain facilities and procedures for determining whether a potential conflict of interest exists. Further, if a potential conflict of interest is identified, our policy addresses procedures for presenting the facts, investigation of potential conflicts by a disinterested person or committee and a decision process to determine if the transaction is in the best interest of gcb, for gcb's own benefit, fair and reasonable to gcb and/or in the best interest of the welfare of the community. Our policy defines potential violations of the policy such as failure to disclose. The policy defines records of procedures that contain identified conflicts of interest, voting prohibitions and records of voting by individual board members. If a person has failed to disclose an actual or possible conflict of interest, an investigation is performed by management or the board. If it is found that a person has in fact failed to disclose an actual or possible conflict of interest, management or the board, as appropriate, will take corrective action up to and including termination of employment or dismissal from the board.”

“Line 15a - all executive compensation is reviewed and approved by the compensation committee and the board. Compensation amounts are determined based on independent surveys and comparable data to organizations our size for non-profits, other blood centers, and general industry. This process was last undertaken in december 2024. Line 15b - all other management positions' (directors) compensation are based on compensation reviews performed by our human resources department. The hr department obtains independent surveys for these positions and other comparable data to determine their recommendation of the compensation. All salary recommendations are reviewed and approved by the executives. This process was last undertaken in december 2024.”

“All governing documents, conflicts of interest policy and financial statements are available upon request. Tax form 990 and 990-t (if applicable) are also available upon request and are also available via guidestar's website. Our website has a link to the guidestar website.”

“Investment in affiliate -201,943.”

“The organization has not changed either its audit oversight process or its process for selecting an independent auditor from the prior year.”