Attach to Form 990 or Form 990-EZ.
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| (i) Name of supported organization | (ii) EIN | (iii) Type of organization (described on lines 1- 9 above or IRC section (see instructions)) | (iv) Is the organization in col. (i) listed in your governing document? | (v) Did you notify the organization in col. (i) of your support? | (vi) Is the organization in col. (i) organized in the U.S.? | (vii) Amount of monetary support | |||
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Dakota Medical Foundation |
456012318 | 7 | Yes | 1,258,155 | |||||
| Total | 1,258,155 | ||||||||
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") .... | ||||||
| 2 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf....... | ||||||
| 3 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | ||||||
| 4 | Total. Add lines 1 through 3 | ||||||
| 5 | The portion of total contributions by each person (other than a governmental unit or publicly supported organization) included on line 1 that exceeds 2% of the amount shown on line 11, column (f).. | ||||||
| 6 | Public support. Subtract line 5 from line 4. | ||||||
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| 7 | Amounts from line 4.. | ||||||
| 8 | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources... | ||||||
| 9 | Net income from unrelated business activities, whether or not the business is regularly carried on.. | ||||||
| 10 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part IV.).. | ||||||
| 11 | Total support (Add lines 7 through 10). | ||||||






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(a) 2009 | (b) 2010 | (c) 2011 | (d) 2012 | (e) 2013 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") . | ||||||
| 2 | Gross receipts from admissions, merchandise sold or services performed, or facilities furnished in any activity that is related to the organization's tax-exempt purpose...... | ||||||
| 3 | Gross receipts from activities that are not an unrelated trade or business under section 513.. | ||||||
| 4 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf... | ||||||
| 5 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | ||||||
| 6 | Total. Add lines 1 through 5. | ||||||
| 7a | Amounts included on lines 1, 2, and 3 received from disqualified persons... | ||||||
| b | Amounts included on lines 2 and 3 received from other than disqualified persons that exceed the greater of $5,000 or 1% of the amount on line 13 for the year. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 7a and 7b.. | ||||||
| 8 | Public support (Subtract line 7c from line 6.) | ||||||
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| 9 | Amounts from line 6... | ||||||
| 10a | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources.. | ||||||
| b | Unrelated business taxable income (less section 511 taxes) from businesses acquired after June 30, 1975. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 10a and 10b. | ||||||
| 11 | Net income from unrelated business activities not included in line 10b, whether or not the business is regularly carried on. | ||||||
| 12 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part IV.) .. | ||||||
| 13 | Total support. (Add lines 9, 10c, 11, and 12.).. | ||||||




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| Form 990, Part III, Program B: | CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION - Cass Clay Alive! Initiative: The Foundations joined with other like-minded organizations in 2009 to promote and facilitate a comprehensive approach for residents living in Cass County, ND and Clay County, MN to eat healthier and lead more active lifestyles, resulting in decreased incidence of obesity and chronic diseases. The initiative's overall strategy is to coordinate community collaboration to improve the health of citizens and to integrate best practices through the engagement of government, education, food industry, worksite wellness, community-based organizations, and insurers to make Cass and Clay counties of North Dakota the healthiest place in America to live, work, and play. The goal is to reduce childhood obesity rates in those counties by 20% by 2020. The initiative works through an advisory committee and a steering committee comprised of members from the various sectors to develop and direct the initiatives goals. Beginning in 2012, the Initiative programs focused on StreetsAlive! SchoolsAlive!; and ChildcareAlive!. The Foundations provided over $226,400 in 2014 to support this Initiative. StreetsAlive! The healthy communities focus in 2014 included the fifth annual Streets Alive! events to encourage healthier lifestyles in the community through movement by walking, running, biking, skating, dancing and any other means of human movement. Participants used human-powered transportation to navigate the 3-mile course through Fargo/Moorhead area. Over 30 community partners participated and supported the Streets Alive! effort by establishing healthy food booths, providing health education and mini-activity classes throughout the days. Two 2014 StreetsAlive! events drew over 13,000 attendees. SchoolsAlive! The Initiative's SchoolsAlive program works with local school systems to implement stronger wellness polices impacting over 27,000 K-12 students. The West Fargo, ND school system is implementing a school day physical activity initiative in its elementary schools. The program has included trainings and support on Active Recess, Active Classrooms, a university student service learning project, and training for before and after school staff. More than 1,250 staff have been trained. Over 400 school staff from ND and MN have attended local Healthy Schools Summits. Culinary trainings for school cooks were added in 2014 to teach scratch cooking that uses fresh, healthy ingredients and cuts additives and preservatives in student lunches. More than 155 individuals from 40 ND school districts have participated in Culinary Boot Camps. Family and Consumer Science teachers, childcare providers, and nonprofits like the Salvation Army and Great Plains Food Bank also attended. Childcare Alive! The Foundations collaborated with the ChildCare Aware program to increase physical activity and ensure healthier eating in child care settings. Early childhood professionals take part in online and face-to-face training, assessment of current practices, goal setting, and action planning around improving children's health. ChildcareAlive! has provided training to over 1,100 childcare providers and parents in functions addressing childhood obesity, increased outdoor activity, and nutritional education through 2014. Faith Communities Alive! CassClayAlive! extended its reach to create faith settings supportive of healthy choices in 2014. The initiative has engaged 20 congregations in Cass and Clay counties to build a peer network of healthy parishes and prototype policies and practices that establish faith settings as hubs for education, health promotion and advancing healthy habits. |
| Form 990, Part III, Program C: | Organizational Effectiveness - The Foundations believe it is imperative for nonprofit organizations to build their capacity to become efficient high-impact, sustainable nonprofits to provide more effective health outcomes for the clients they serve over the long term. The Foundations recognize the challenges that many nonprofit health related organizations encounter in delivering needed programs that improve health and access to healthcare. The Foundations provide financial support to the Impact Institute training and education programs made available to nonprofit organizations. Since inception in 2005, more than 5,000 nonprofit executives and directors from over 450 nonprofits have trained in Impact Institute leadership and fundraising concepts. In 2014, the Impact Institute helped equip charity organizations to solve complex community challenges through our training and coaching. We were able to train over 100 organizations, particularly in fundraising. Many continued their professional development in the fundraising curriculum and a coaching program titled Funding Logic that was developed at Impact Institute to build a mastery of fundraising and leadership. A study of 34-nonprofit organizations that participated in fundraising training showed that their public support on Giving Hearts Day increased over a six year period from $840,394 in donations in 2009 to $2.3 million in donations in 2014. On average, coached nonprofits increased their Giving Hearts Day funds by 32% over last year, compared with 18% by those who did not participate in coaching. During 2014, the Foundations provided $100,000 in grants to Impact Foundation and incurred $101,021 in operating expenses to support this Initiative. DMF Training and Event Center: In March 2013 DMF opened its newly-constructed 18,800 square foot building to serve as a nonprofit community center to expand the sector's capability to educate and train area nonprofit organizations and to provide a venue for conferences, retreats, fundraisers and a gathering location for area nonprofit organizations and health leaders. The center provides a high-tech conference for engaging health leaders and other stakeholders; a teaching kitchen facility that provides a location to teach healthy food preparation, particularly to school and child care food service staff. The training room, board room, multiple conference rooms are made available to area nonprofit organizations for their conferences and meetings. Since opening, hundreds of organizations have utilized the facilities. GiveBack Initiative: The Foundations partnered with Impact Foundation to develop a GiveBack Initiative that focuses on developing strategies and programs to inspire and substantially increase the giving of time, talent and treasure by donors in North Dakota and western Minnesota. The Initiative created new ways of thinking and new approaches surrounding wealth transfer and volunteerism in North Dakota and Western Minnesota. The GiveBack website (www.impactgiveback.org) provides the capability for nonprofit organizations to accept online contributions from donors; share their stories; engage volunteers and record volunteer activities and coordinate event registrations. Significant efforts and commitments have been made by Impact Foundation to enhance the website in order to better connect donors with nonprofit organizations that fit the donor's charitable goals. The online giving website has processed over $12.7 million for its partner nonprofits since its 2007 implementation. In 2014, the Foundations provided $150,000 in grants to Impact Foundation to support this initiative. Wealth Transfer Initiative: The Foundations, partnering with Impact Foundation, have been a vocal force educating financial advisors and nonprofit organizations on the generational wealth transfer expected to occur between 2007 and 2061 in North Dakota. According to the U.S. Wealth Transfer: A Golden Era of Philanthropy report commissioned by Impact Foundation and completed by the Boston College Center for Philanthropy, an estimated $59 trillion will be transferred by 93.6 million estates in the U.S. and approximately 220,000 North Dakota households will transfer $308.6 billion to families, heirs, charities, estate taxes, and accelerated lifetime divesture of other assets from 2007 to 2061. The initiative's purpose is to provide valuable information to nonprofit organizations so that they can develop their fundraising to individuals, who provide eighty percent of the funding to U.S. nonprofits through private gifts. During 2014, the Foundations provided a grant totaling $75,000 to Impact Foundation to support this initiative. DMF Giving Hearts Day Initiative: The Foundations partnered with Impact Foundation to establish this Initiative to promote charitable giving in the region. The online giving environment improves the capacity of area nonprofit organizations to efficiently raise funds for their programs. The online giving website at www.impactgiveback.org is used to promote the annual DMF Giving Hearts Day each February and provides donors with an easy-to-use website to make online contributions to their favorite North Dakota and Minnesota charitable organizations. Since implementation in 2008, the Giving Hearts Day Initiative has generated contributions for community nonprofit organizations totaling over $15.7 million. The Foundations have provided over $2.2 million in matching fund grants and incentive grants for participating organizations since inception of this initiative. The Giving Hearts Day event held in February 2014 generated 24,407 donations for 235 charitable causes totaling over $6.9 million in a 24-hour period. During 2014, the Foundations provided $456,030 match grants and incentive awards to participating nonprofit organizations and incurred $67,908 in operating expenses to support this initiative. In a study of 34 organizations that have participated in the event continuously since 2009, cumulative Giving Hearts Day fundraising results have risen from $840,394 to $2.3 million, or greater than 10 percent each year. The Foundation received a total of $100,000 from two organizations to fund awards to nonprofits. Grant Writing Service: In 2005, the Foundations have supported grant writing assistance for health-related nonprofit organizations to generate additional financial resources for their programs. Since the formal addition of grant writing assistance, the Foundations, Impact Foundation and other regional nonprofit organizations have secured over $14.7 million in grant funding. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4c | Volunteer Initiative: Foundations partnered with Impact Foundation in 2007 to implement a Volunteer Initiative designed to help nonprofit organizations more effectively recruit, train, manage and retain volunteers. The GiveBack website www.impactgiveback.org includes a Volunteer page that provides the capability for nonprofit organizations to list their volunteer opportunities and to track the volunteer's time spent. The Foundations partnered with FirstLink to connect volunteers with opportunities to serve. In 2014, the Foundations provided $15,000 in grants to FirstLink in support of their efforts to expand this initiative. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 1 | The Executive Committee will be comprised of the Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, and the Chairs of: the Governance Committee, Finance/Investment Committee, Grants Committee, and one Board Member At-Large. The Immediate Past Chair shall also serve on the Executive Committee for a one-year, nonvoting term. The Board Member At-Large shall be elected by the Board at its organizational meeting. Four (4) members of the total committee membership shall be members of the medical staff of hospitals or clinics. The Executive Committee: A. Shall be responsible for the day-to-day activities of the Foundations. B. Shall review strategic and operational plans for recommendation to the Board. C. May review actions of the three (3) other Standing Committees: Governance, Finance/Investment, and Grants Committees, and give recommendations to the Board. D. Shall annually evaluate the performance of the President. E. Shall upon approval by the Board, set the President's compensation and terms of employment. F. Shall review and recommend to the Board the number and salary ranges of all staff of the Foundations. G. Shall review and may make expenditures up to and including fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) without Board approval unless otherwise specifically prohibited. H. Shall evaluate the proposals concerning unmet health needs in the communities that the Foundations serve, prioritize such needs, recommend appropriate grant budget, time frame, and desired key performance categories for each such need, and seek Board approval for initiatives designed to meet such needs. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 2 | J. Patrick Traynor has a business relationship with David Gibb, Michael Schumacher, Joel Haugen, M.D., Richard Vetter, M.D., Jon Wanzek, Curt Noyes, David Clutter, M.D., Jay Eisenbeis, Chris Kennelly, Larry Leitner, Deb Magnuson, BSN, RN, Fadel Nammour, M.D., Jane Skalsky, RN, Mike Warner, Susan Mathison, M.D., Nancy Slotten, Sindy Keller, Hope Yongsmith, Seth Novak, Amanda Thomas, Robert Bakkum and Jerry Skjonsby. J. Patrick Traynor is an employee of Dakota Medical Foundation where the Board members and officers of Dakota Medical Charities also serve as Board members and officers. David Clutter, M.D., Fadel Nammour, M.D., and Richard Vetter, M.D., all have a business relationship with Joel Haugen, M.D. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 3 | Mr. Traynor is appointed by the board as the named President of Dakota Medical Charities. Dakota Medical Foundation allocates 50% of its employment costs for Mr. Traynor, under a service contract agreement between Dakota Medical Foundation and Dakota Medical Charities. Mr. Traynor received total compensation including benefits of $324,199 for the fiscal year. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 6 | The sole member of the organization is Dakota Medical Foundation. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 7a | Dakota Medical Foundation elects the Dakota Medical Charities' Board of Directors annually. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 7b | The sole member, Dakota Medical Foundation, has the power and right, prior to the Board of Directors taking final action, to approve or reject or consent with on the following matters: -The adoption and implementation of annual operating and capital budgets -Capital expenditures in excess of any specific limit that may from time to time be established -The sale or transfer of assets other than in the ordinary course of business -Any amendment of the Articles of Incorporation or the Bylaws -Merger, reorganization, dissolution, or transfer of any substantial portion of the assets -The incurrence of debt -The compensation of officers -The adoption and modification of employee benefit plans |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11 | The Form 990 is provided to all Board Members prior to filing. The filed copy is reviewed by the Executive Committee. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c | Board Members and staff are annually required to review and declare conflicts. Annual results are provided to the President for action. Board Members abstain from voting on any issues that create a conflict of interest. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15b | The President's performance and compensation are reviewed annually by a Compensation Committee of the Executive Committee of a related organization, Dakota Medical Foundation (DMF). The President's compensation changes are approved by the Board of DMF. The President's compensation was reviewed in September 2012 by HR Advisors, an independent human resource consulting firm engaged by the Board to establish a base compensation range. Changes to compensation in subsequent years are based on the established range, performance and CPI changes, and compared with the Council on Foundations' annual salary surveys. Other staff compensation ranges are reviewed by Dakota Medical Charities' Executive Committee and compared periodically with the Council on Foundations' salary survey. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 | The Organization's governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are available to the public upon request. |
| Form 990, Part XII, Line 2c: | There is no separate committee that assumes responsibility for oversight of the audit, review, or compilation of its financial statements and selection of an independent accountant. This function is performed by the Board of Directors. |
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