Sevadar means one who serves. It is the name of this foundation because it is the whole of the job description.
Sevadar Foundation Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity based in St. Louis, Missouri. It does not treat patients and it does not run a clinic. It builds and carries three programs that do specific, unglamorous work: watching over people in nursing homes, caring for veterans and neighbors who are sleeping outside, and making opioid therapy safer for the people who still need it.
True leaders are those who serve
Instead of reducing leadership to the act of only calling the shots, consider a form of leadership based on serving others, caring for one’s community, and uplifting those around you.
That sentence has been on this domain since before there was a foundation behind it. It still governs what gets built here. What sevadar means →
Three programs
Each of the three is a registered program of this foundation with its own site, its own audience and its own accountability. None of them is a marketing name for the others.
CareGuard
A Patient Safety Organization listed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, PSO P0268. It reviews skilled nursing and assisted living facilities for safety and runs a reporting channel for staff, families and visitors.
Valor Medica
Medical care, mental health and recovery support, and vocational training for veterans and neighbors experiencing homelessness across the St. Louis region.
IntellaRx
An opioid-safety program: pharmaceutical delivery, remote monitoring and psychometrics, built around the people for whom opioid therapy is still the right answer and the risk has to be managed rather than ignored.
Veterans do the looking
CareGuard’s facility reviews cover the physical plant — the parts of a building that injure people when they are wrong. Call lights that do not reach. Handrails that end early. Doors that do not hold. Floors that are wet at the same time every day.
Veterans conduct those reviews. Not as a placement scheme and not as therapy. Because reading a building for what will go wrong in it is a skill they already have, and because a person who has done a walk-through under real consequences does not skip the back corridor. How veterans are involved →
Status, plainly stated
A donor should be able to check the claim, not take it. Everything below appears on the IRS determination letter dated August 29, 2023.
| Legal name | Sevadar Foundation Inc. |
| EIN | 93-2840861 |
| Exemption effective | August 10, 2023 |
| Public charity classification | Section 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) |
| Contributions deductible | Yes |
| Annual filing | Form 990, 990-EZ or 990-N |
| Accounting period ends | December 31 |
The full determination-letter record →
As of August 2026, Sevadar Foundation has been funded entirely by its founder. It runs no fundraising campaign, employs no fundraisers and pays no one a commission on a gift.
There is no donation button on this site, and that is deliberate. Read why, and what to do if you want to help anyway →
What Sevadar Foundation is not
It is not a medical provider. It does not diagnose, treat, prescribe or advise on anyone’s care, and nothing on this site should be read as medical advice. Clinical care is delivered by the programs, under their own licensure and their own names. The full boundary →
It is also not the same organization as Valor Villages Inc., which is a separate 501(c)(3) with its own EIN and its own leadership. Why that distinction matters →
Talk to us
The fastest route is the phone. The form reaches the same place.
(314) 852-5500 · 4477 Woodson Rd, Suite 203, St. Louis, MO 63134