Services Immigrant Rights and Education Network (Siren)

“Form 990 is prepared by our outside auditor. Following the completion of a draft of the audited financial statements and a draft of form 990, the outside auditor meets with the finance/audit committee to review the finanical statements and form 990 to assure that all representations and answers to issues, comments and questions are accurate. Appropriate revisions are made to the audited financial statements and form 990 and the revised drafts are given to the full board of directors for their review and comments prior to publication of the audited financial statements and filing of the form 990.”

“At each board and committee meeting prior to voting on any issue, board/committee members are asked to identify any conflict of interest in existence with regard to the item being voted on and to abstain from voting where a conflict of interest exists.”

“The organization's executive board (subcommittee of board of directors) sets compensation for the chief executive officer/executive director (ceo/ed). The executive board performs an annual review of the performance of the ceo/ed. The executive board also gathers input for setting the ceo/ed's compensation from nonprofit compensation surveys and/or from compensation information received from member industry associations. The deliberation and decision regarding the ceo/ed's compensation is contemporaneously documented in the minutes of the executive board and approved by the full board of directors. The ceo/ed is responsible for setting the compensation of other employees through salary information reviewed from similar sources as used in setting the ed compensation. The employee compensation decision is documented in the applicable employee's payroll file.”

“The organization's governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and audited financial statements are available upon request.”

“Professional fees: program service expenses 657,131. Management and general expenses 84,228. Fundraising expenses 107. Total expenses 741,466.”