Accountability & Disclosure

Jimmie Heuga Legacy Foundation for MS (JHF), is committed to operating to the highest standards of accountability, transparency, and ethics. We seek to earn your trust by sharing information on how we operate using donated dollars to achieve our mission. The following details reflect our commitment to donors, volunteers, and the people we serve.

Internal and External Oversight
The Directors who serve and oversee JHF help to develop and advance the interests of our donors in ways that go beyond just raising money. Good governance is more than just supporting the organization – it also means representing the community’s interests in what we do. Our Board of Directors has three fundamental legal obligations, or fiduciary duties, which apply to everything we do.

• Duty of Care: The amount of care that an ordinarily prudent person would exercise in a like position and under similar circumstances. This describes the criteria our Directors must give to making decisions.
• Duty of Loyalty: Keeping the interests of JHF in mind at all times when making decisions on behalf of the organization.
• Duty of Obedience: Requires board members to be faithful to our mission; consistent with the mission statement, Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, and tax-exemption requirements.

Working in partnership with the professional staff, the Directors also cooperate with key legal bodies and various independent organizations that evaluate charities on a number of factors, not the least of which is an organization’s degree of accountability and transparency.

Organizational Information
Legally Incorporated: The Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation provide details on how our organization is structured and managed. 
           Articles of Incorporation
           Bylaws

Tax Exempt: The Jimmie Heuga Foundation for MS is recognized by the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as a tax-exempt organization. Here is the IRS Designation for JHF.

Volunteer Governance: Here is a link to the list of our all-volunteer Board of Directors that provides internal oversight to the organization.

Professionally Staffed:  Here is a link to the list of our key employees.

IRS Verified:  Our JHF 990 Form confirms the annual tax filing information we are required to maintain the tax exempt designation. For previous years, click here.

Stewardship Publicly Reported:  Our Annual Report on activities for each year provides details on our accomplishments and the impact we make with your support.

Privacy Respected:  JHF subscribes to the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Donor Bill of Rights, to honor the rights and privacy of our donors. We do not sell or trade donors’ personal information to any other entity. Donors are recognized in the organization’s annual report to the community. Donors wishing to remain anonymous should notify us at the time a gift is made. Our Donor Privacy Policy is available for more details.