The foundation holds the tax status, the governance and the money. The programs do the work and carry the relationships. Almost every question about how this is organized resolves into that one sentence.
Programs, not subsidiaries
CareGuard, Valor Medica and IntellaRx are programs of this foundation, not separately incorporated organizations. They operate under the foundation’s legal identity and its 501(c)(3) status. CareGuard is registered as a fictitious name of the foundation in Missouri.
That structure is a deliberate choice. Three separate corporations would mean three boards, three sets of filings, three audits and three chances to lose the thread. One foundation with three programs concentrates the accountability in one place.
What the foundation does
Holds the status
The 501(c)(3) exemption, EIN 93-2840861, the federal PSO listing and the state registrations all sit at the foundation level.
Holds the money
Funding comes in to the foundation and is allocated to programs. Programs do not fundraise against each other.
Holds the standard
Whether a program is doing what it says it does is a foundation question, and the founder answers for it.
What the programs do
Carry the work
Reviews, care, monitoring. Everything that touches a person happens at the program level.
Carry the relationships
Facilities, patients, families, partner organizations and referral sources belong to the program, not to the foundation.
Carry the confidentiality
CareGuard’s patient safety work product is protected by federal law and does not flow up to the foundation as content. The walls →
The one thing that does not flow
It would be convenient for a foundation to be able to read everything its programs hold. It cannot, and it should not want to. CareGuard collects patient safety work product under the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act; Valor Medica holds protected health information. Neither becomes foundation material because the foundation is the parent.
So this site can tell you that CareGuard reviewed facilities. It cannot tell you which ones, or what was found. That is not evasiveness — it is the point of the protection.
Questions
Is a gift to the foundation a gift to a specific program?
Not automatically. A gift to the foundation is a gift to Sevadar Foundation Inc. and the foundation allocates it. If you want a gift restricted to one program, that is a conversation to have before you give, not after. Questions about giving, and read more: Restricted gifts, and why we ask first.
Do the programs have their own boards?
They are programs of one corporation, so the governance sits at the foundation level. Read more: One foundation, three programs, and why we did not incorporate them separately.
Does Sevadar Foundation employ the clinicians?
Clinical care is delivered under the programs and under the licensure of the clinicians who deliver it. The foundation itself holds no clinical license and provides no care. Read more: Why a foundation should not practice medicine.