Sjac

“The form 990 was prepared by the outside accountants. It was then sent to the chairman and treasurer of the board of directors for review. A copy of the form 990 was then sent to the full board, prior to filing with the irs.”

“Sjac's board of directors and principal officer complete and sign sjac conflict of interest forms annually. Other sjac staff are also subject to sjac's conflict of interest policy as outlined in sjac employee handbook. They complete and sign a conflict of interest form upon hire. Sjac has designed a system of checks and balances to mitigate risks of conflict of interest. Sjac also conducts period reviews that include at minimum: (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.”

“The salary of the executive director was determined by sjac board of directors and is in line with salaries of executive director of other similarly sized ngos as determined through market research. The process was documented by sjac board members. The last compensation review took place january 2022.”

“The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request.”

“The organization undertook the following program services which were not listed on the prior form 990: technology and human rights - sjac strives to improve the cyber security of its open-source database software, and make it available to other human rights organizations. Capacity building - by providing institutional and programming capacity building to groups led by survivors or families of victims of core international crimes in the syrian conflict, including providing small subgrants to the groups, sjac builds their compliance and financial capacity.”

“Consultants: program service expenses 1,041,870. Management and general expenses 87,127. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 1,128,997.”

“There were no changes to the oversight or selection process during the year.”