Accountability & Disclosure

At the Jimmie Heuga Legacy Foundation for MS (JHF), our Board of Directors, staff and volunteers are committed to the highest standards of accountability, transparency and ethics in everything we do. We realize to be successful we must earn your trust and investment. The directors and staff at JHF take seriously our responsibility to be accountable, transparent and responsive to the needs of our donors. That's why we have created this web page as a convenient, comprehensive source of critical information fully disclosed for donors to make informed giving decisions. 

In short, we understand we need to earn your trust and investment in our mission.

Internal and External Oversight
Our Board of Directors understands that good governance is more than just supporting the organization – it also means representing the community’s interests in what we do. The members of our Board of Directors have three fundamental legal obligations, or fiduciary duties, which apply to everything that JHF does:
  • 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 Jimmie Heuga Legacy Foundation for MS is incorporated in the State of Colorado. Here are links to the original or amended by-laws and articles of incorporation:
           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:  Here is a link to the latest copy of JHF 990 Form or Annual Financial Documents if a short-version 990 has been utilized.  For previous years, click here.

Stewardship Publicly Reported:  View JHCE Annual Report for 2010-2011 by clicking here.

Privacy Respected:  JHF honors 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 JHF at the time a gift is made. We subscribe to the AFP’s Donor Bill of Rights. In addition to this, our privacy statement can be found at the bottom of every page.