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 337,536. Management and general expenses 66,514. Fundraising expenses 4,907. Total expenses 408,957.”

“The organization's board of directors has responsibility for the oversight of the audit of its financial statements and selection of its independent auditor. This responsibility is unchanged from the prior year.”

“The original form 990 was filed on the extended due date, prior to completion of the audit of the organization's financial statements. This amended form 990 reflects the audit adjustments and the resulting changes in the various affected balance sheet and income statement amounts. Part x, balance sheet - minor reclassifications were made to report balance sheet at june 30,2018 as follows: - line 27, unrestricted net assets increased $1,000 - line 28, temporarily restricted net assets decreased $1,000”