2012-11-15T09:41:39-06:00 2011-12-31 450250958 EIDE BAILLY LLP 4310 17TH AVE S PO BOX 2545 FARGO ND 581082545 990 2011-01-01 202052288 Achievements Unlimited Foundation ACHI 7012710263 4152 30th Ave S No 102 Fargo ND 581048403 J Patrick Traynor 7012710263 2012-11-15 1 LISA CHAFFEE CPA P00193453 7012398500 2012-11-15 2011 2016-02-24 21:20:13Z J Patrick Traynor 4152 30th Ave S No 102 Fargo ND 581048403 318019 0 X www.impactfdn.org X 2004 ND Achievements Unlimited Foundation operates exclusively to support the mission of Impact Foundation. 3 3 0 3 0 0 1314757 308892 0 0 11661 9127 0 0 1326418 318019 1072017 278625 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 140237 50429 1212254 329054 114164 -11035 1628681 1035398 848459 266211 780222 769187 X Achievements Unlimited Foundation operates exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, and to carry out the charitable purposes of Impact Foundation. Achievements Unlimited Foundation operates to provide non-profit organizations with educational resources and technical assistance to measurably improve their organizational effectiveness and to optimize their long-term financial capacity and sustainability resulting in a more effective and greater societal impact. 0 0 293854 278625 Organizational EffectivenessAchievements Unlimited Foundation and Impact Foundation, its supported organization, (the "Foundations") recognize that many nonprofit organizations often lack expertise and financial resources to invest in critical organizational assessments, strategic planning and highly effective fundraising efforts to ensure their organization's effectiveness and sustainability over the long-term. The Foundations partnered with Dakota Medical Foundation to provide support and promote education and training sessions for nonprofit partner organizations through the Impact Institute. The Impact Institute has provided training to over 300 partner nonprofit organizations since its 2005 inception. Nonprofit Board and Management Training: Training boards and key management personnel to operate their organizations in a highly effective and efficient manner is a key education focus for the Foundations. The Foundations have encouraged many area nonprofit organizations to attend the Impact Institute's various education and training programs. Strategic Planning Training and Services: The Impact Institute piloted a Strategic Planning Toolkit and Webinar Series in 2011. The pilot was developed in conjunction with La Piana Consulting into three 90 minute sessions and an accompanying toolkit. Three nonprofits participated, with 100% of participants rating the webinar series with a score of 5 or 4 on a 0-5 point scale with 5 being the highest. The webinar and toolkit are available on www.impactgiveback.org.High Impact Fundraising Training: Educating and training organizations to become effective fundraisers is a key program at the Impact Institute. Professional trainers using highly structured and effective training methods and follow-up activities have provided training to over 200 organizations. A sampling of 22 nonprofit organizations participating in the training indicated an increase in contributions between 2007 ($31.9 million) and 2010 ($47.2 million).Shared Services Initiative: 80 nonprofit executives, staff and board members attended a Nonprofit Redesign Seminar. 91% of participants rated the seminar as a 5 or 4 on a 0-5 point scale with 5 being the highest. The Foundations have developed a pilot Management Services Organization (MSO) concept to provide shared administrative services for smaller nonprofit organizations in order to reduce the overhead costs associated with managing their programs and services; produce improved financial processing allowing more time to focus on strategic issues.High Impact Seal of Distinction Program: The Foundations, in partnership and collaboration with Dakota Medical Foundation, developed this program as the "capstone" for its series of education and training programs. The program includes an organizational assessment and development plan, additional board and executive leadership training, plan implementation support and annual renewals. Completion of the program is designed to build the capacity of executives to take their organizations from functioning well to superior performing, high impact organizations. The inaugural program included the participation of the Impact Foundation, Dakota Medical Foundation and 12 other nonprofit organizations' board of directors and executive staff. In May 2011, the inaugural class of 14 nonprofits received the High Impact Seal of Distinction.Grant Writing: The Foundations provide grant writing technical support to its partner nonprofit organizations aiming to increase resources for their programs and services. Dakota Medical Charities provided a multi-year grant that initially funded this initiative in 2005. Impact continues to leverage those funds by assisting other nonprofit organizations with their development efforts through writing effective grant applications. Grant writing efforts to date have resulted in 33 grants awarded totaling $6,213,610.High Impact Philanthropy (HIP): The Foundations, in partnership with Dakota Medical Foundation, initiated this program to unite outstanding community funding organizations and private donors to research and discuss various societal problems and issues in the region with the goal of a common focus and more coordinated, effective strategies to achieve a greater impact in the community. Impact Foundation serves as the fiscal host for the HIP initiative. The HIP Initiative was launched in the spring of 2009 with support from the Otto Bremer, Bush and Dakota Medical Foundations. The Impact Institute partnered with Mark Kramer, Founder and Managing Director of FSG, author of several influential articles and one of the leading experts in the field of philanthropy, to facilitate the HIP initiative. The goal of HIP is to inspire funders to adopt a new approach to more strategically and collaboratively solve societal issues in the region. The HIP steering committee is comprised of foundation, corporate and individual donors that invest over $75 million annually to support various charitable endeavors in the region. The steering committee's initial focus is to build the assets of youth living in Cass and Clay counties. Dr. Rathge of the North Dakota Data Center has conducted an inventory of all organizations in Cass and Clay counties that are working on youth asset building, including: organizational budget size, youth asset building areas, measures of performance, and interaction with other organizations in the area.The initial group of 15 organizations and community leaders came to a consensus to focus the HIP group's initial efforts on improving the internal and external assets of youth in the Fargo-Moorhead (FM) area. The goals of the HIP Initiative are: 1) Engaging youth, youth development organizations and others to develop a coordinated strategy to make the FM area a place where all youth can maximize their potential; 2) hold a Youth Development Summit; 3) release an environmental scan of organizations serving youth in the FM area that includes organization size, areas of focus, and collaboration activities; 4) develop a budget and identify an individual to coordinate, plan and implement the next phases for the HIP group.A stakeholder conference was held in December 2011 with over 100 participants from 54 different youth organizations and agencies in the Fargo-Moorhead area. Planning teams of cross-sector community stakeholders have been formed to accomplish this step/phase, and will be utilizing the Ready by 21 frame work from Forum for Youth Investment. An initial community-wide blueprint that outlines results, indicators and action steps needed to create the conditions for all children to reach their maximum potential will be released in 2012. 24380 Economic DevelopmentThe Foundations support the economic development of North Dakota communities by initiating and funding various initiatives directed at assisting small businesses located in North Dakota. Grants from the USDA Office of Rural Development, North Dakota Department of Commerce, and Dakota Certified Development Corporation established the procurement assistance program (PAC) in 2006 to provide research, technical assistance, and training to North Dakota small businesses assisting them in securing federal and state government contracts for their goods and services.The Otto Bremer Foundation provided Impact with a $240,000 multi-year grant in 2008 to establish a Veteran's Entrepreneurship Assistance Program. This funding allowed the PAC to assist veterans to start and expand their businesses by securing government contracts. Funding from the USDA Office of Rural Development has allowed this program to assist businesses in key rural communities throughout the state. Through 2011, technical assistance has been provided to over 290 North Dakota businesses including 111 Native American and 62 veteran owned businesses and representing 90% of the current 8(a)/Small Disadvantaged Business certified companies. The PAC has provided 29 workshops with over 523 attendees. Over 197 bids have been submitted with 115 contracts obtained totaling over $171 million of which $111 million were Native American business contract dollars. Over 685 North Dakota jobs have been retained and/or created.Impact entered into a 30-year loan commitment with the USDA Intermediary Loan Program (IRP) through the Office of Rural Development in 2007. The IRP created a $937,500 pool of funds available to qualifying North Dakota businesses at low interest rates. Dakota Certified Development Corporation (DCDC) provided a grant to Impact to meet the equity requirement under the terms of the USDA loan with Impact. DCDC manages the loan program under an agreement with Impact. As of 12/31/2011 6 loans totaling over $674,000 have been provided to small businesses in rural communities. DCDC has established a charitable fund at the Foundations that will provide funding to improve the North Dakota business climate. 318234 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 3 3 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 X David Gibb 7012710263 4152 30th Avenue South Suite 102 Fargo ND 58104 X Dan Carey 1.00 X X 0 0 0 John Bertel 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Susan Mathison MD 1.00 X X 0 0 0 J Patrick Traynor 10.00 X 0 43700 0 0 43700 0 0 0 0 0 0 22405 286487 308892 9127 9127 318019 0 0 9127 278625 278625 8000 4000 4000 4800 4800 18247 16247 2000 12559 12559 333 333 1739 1739 1185 1185 3291 3291 203 203 Dues, books, and subscr 70 50 20 2 2 329054 318234 10820 0 1575456 1009654 50000 22405 3225 3339 1628681 1035398 1030 264 384616 107749 462813 158198 848459 266211 X 780222 769187 780222 769187 1628681 1035398 -11035 0 X X 0 1 0 X 0 X X X 0 0 0 Impact Foundation 200520386 7 1 260654 1 260654 RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 1 7500 398312 1 1 0 Related Party Payable 158198 158198 Description of Uncertain Tax Positions Under FIN 48: Part X: Achievements Unlimited Foundation has been recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as exempt from federal income taxes under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3). Achievements Unlimited Foundation undergoes an annual analysis of its various tax positions, assessing the likelihood of these positions being upheld upon examination with relevant tax authorities, as defined by the generally accepted accounting principles. Achievements Unlimited Foundation believes that they are compliant with all IRS tax regulations and as of December 31, 2011 and 2010 have not recorded liabilities for income taxes. The Foundation will recognize future accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax liabilities in income tax expense if incurred. Achievements Unlimited Foundation is no longer subject to federal and state tax examinations by tax authorities for years before 2008. 1 Boston College Center on Wealth and Philanthropy Foundation 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill MA 02467 042103545 501(c)(3) 16471 ND wealth transfer study Impact Foundation 4152 30 Ave S Fargo ND 58104 200520386 501(c)(3) 260654 Program and initiative support 2 Procedure for Monitoring Grants in the U.S.: Part I, Line 2: Schedule I, Part I, Line 2: The Foundation's primary grant recipient is their supported organization, Impact Foundation. For grants to other organizations, the Foundation's written grantee application process includes detailed organizational information and tax status, mission, governance, conflicts of interest, project description, and budget. Grant agreements require periodic and final progress reporting and return of unspent grant funds. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 2 J Patrick Traynor has a business relationship with John Bertel, Dan Carey and Susan Mathison. Mr. Bertel, Mr. Carey and Ms. Mathison serve as volunteers on the board of a related organization, Impact Foundation, where Mr. Traynor serves as the Executive Director. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 3 J Patrick Traynor is the Executive Director of Achievements Unlimited and Impact Foundation. This position is paid by Impact Foundation. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 6 The sole member of Achievements Unlimited Foundation with voting rights shall be Impact Foundation. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 7a The voting Directors of the Board shall be elected by the Corporate Member Impact Foundation. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 7b Any decision by the governing body to amend the Articles of Incorporation or the Bylaws needs to be approved by Impact Foundation. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 8b There were no committees with authority to act on behalf of the Board. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11 A copy of the final Form 990 is provided to each voting Board Member for their review prior to filing. The filed Form 990 will be an agenda item at the next scheduled Board Meeting for management to review with Board Members. Actions taken will be so noted in the minutes of the Board. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c Board members are required to review the conflict policy and declare any conflicts annually. In addition the Administrative Assistant notifies the Executive Director of any other conflicts that may arise during the year. Conflicts are provided to the Board and Board Members with conflicts are asked to abstain from voting on the particular issue. Conflicts would be duly noted in the minutes. 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 VII: J. Patrick Traynor also devotes about 10 hours to Impact Foundation, a related organization. Dan Carey devotes about 3 hours to Impact Foundation and John Bertel and Susan Mathison devote about 2 hours to Impact Foundation. Form 990, Part XII, Line 2: Achievements Unlimited Foundation does not have a specifically appointed audit committee; however, the Board of Directors does assume responsibility for oversight of the audit, review, or compilation of its financial statements and selection of an independent accountant. Impact Foundation 4152 30th Ave S Suite 102 Fargo ND 58104 200520386 Public Foundation ND 501(c)(3) Line 7 N/A 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0