Sevadar means one who serves. That is the whole job description.

Sevadar Foundation Inc. is a St. Louis 501(c)(3) public charity founded by Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP. It holds the tax status, the governance and the money. Its four divisions do the work and carry the relationships.

Have a problem in front of you? The division is the door. Tap the directory assistant, the light in the corner of the page, and it will send you to the right one.

What does "sevadar" mean?

Seva is service performed without expectation of return, credit or exchange. A sevadar is the person doing it.

The word names a posture, not a rank. The work most tied to seva is deliberately ordinary: washing dishes, cleaning shoes, cooking for strangers, sweeping a floor.

That is why it works as a standard. "Compassion" and "excellence" are unfalsifiable. A nonprofit can claim them forever and do nothing. Seva specifies what service is not:

• not done for recognition,
• not conditioned on the recipient deserving it,
• not a transaction dressed as generosity.

The standard rules things out. A program that only works when the recipient is grateful, photogenic or compliant is not seva. It also will not survive a nursing home corridor at 2 a.m. or a camp under a bridge in February.

The line that sat on the foundation's web address before there was a foundation still governs it: true leaders are those who serve.

What are Sevadar Foundation's four divisions?

Each is a division of one corporation, not a separate nonprofit. Each runs its own program for its own audience.

CareGuard

A Patient Safety Organization listed by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality as PSO P0268. It walks nursing homes and assisted living facilities against a fixed 189-item checklist. A QR code on the wall carries what staff and families see straight to the owners, past the people whose work it describes. Full page: CareGuard, the nursing home Patient Safety Organization.

Valor Medica

Medical care, mental health and recovery support, and vocational training for veterans and neighbors experiencing homelessness across the St. Louis region. Medicine assumes an address, a phone and a ride. A veteran sleeping in a car has none of the three, so the care goes to camps, transitional housing and partner sites. Full page: Valor Medica, homeless veteran health care.

IntellaRx

An opioid safety program for health departments, Medicaid programs and corrections health services. It is built for people whose pain is real and whose therapy is appropriate, for whom "just stop prescribing" was never a safety plan. Monitoring costs money and nobody bills for it, so at scale it does not happen. IntellaRx makes it happen. Full page: IntellaRx, the opioid safety program for public agencies.

DWARAA

A six-step deprescribing framework for older adults in long-term care, treated as opioid and sedative stewardship rather than cost control. A drug started in 2009 by a prescriber long gone still sits on the list, because adding a medication has an owner and removing one does not. DWARAA publishes the framework and the evidence. It does not prescribe. Full page: DWARAA, deprescribing for older adults.

Is Valor Villages part of Sevadar Foundation?

No. Valor Villages Inc. is a separate St. Louis 501(c)(3) charity with its own EIN, board and leadership. It houses veterans and neighbors experiencing homelessness. Dr. Padda serves as Medical Director, Valor Villages.

Valor Medica serves as its medical arm. Valor Villages provides the roof. Valor Medica provides the medicine that keeps the roof from being lost. Neither controls the other, and a gift to one is not a gift to the other. Full page: Valor Villages, veteran housing and horticulture.

How does Sevadar Foundation choose its work?

A small foundation's most important discipline is refusal. Work must pass three tests before it becomes a division.

1. Is the harm specific? Not "health disparities." A floor wet at 6 a.m. every day because that is when the ice machine runs. A call button the resident cannot reach from the bed. A patient on 90 morphine milligram equivalents whom nobody has assessed in a year. Specific harms can be found, counted and fixed. Abstract ones can only be discussed.
2. Is there a structural reason nobody else does it? If a market or an agency already covers it, a charity is duplication. For CareGuard, the person who notices a problem and the person who can pay to fix it are separated by a chain of people who each have a reason not to pass it along. For Valor Medica, clinical processes silently require an address. For IntellaRx, monitoring is unfunded, not unknown.
3. Can we tell whether it worked? If the only measure is activity (visits made, reports received, people reached), the work is not ready. Activity is what an organization measures when it does not want to know.

All four rest on one premise: attention paid on a schedule to something nobody watches is the highest-yield intervention available.

Why does one foundation hold all four?

Because they are one failure seen from four doors.

A pain physician watches the same pattern for decades. A problem that was legible and preventable arrives at a point where it is neither.

• The resident whose fall was set up by a handrail.
• The veteran whose PTSD, back injury and missing address were treated as three problems by three systems that solved none of them.
• The patient whose opioid therapy was appropriate, then unmonitored, then abruptly ended in the name of safety.
• The resident on nine medications, each started for a reason that stopped applying years ago.

Each division answers one. That through-line is the only reason one foundation holds them. The same logic runs through Dr. Padda's clinical work on opioid stewardship.

Does Sevadar Foundation provide medical care?

No. It does not diagnose, treat, prescribe or advise. It holds no clinical license and has no patients. Care is delivered by the divisions, under their own names and licensure.

The separation is deliberate. A parent that also treats patients has no clean way to hold its divisions to a standard.

The foundation's suite is an office. There is no waiting room. Walking in will not get anyone seen. In a medical emergency, call 911. In crisis, call or text 988.

What information can the foundation see?

Almost none, by design. The divisions share a founder, a legal identity and an office. They never share protected information.

Division	Holds	Why it stays put
CareGuard	Patient safety work product	Privileged and confidential under 42 U.S.C. § 299b-22 and 42 C.F.R. Part 3
Valor Medica	Clinical and health information	Protected health information belongs to the patient
IntellaRx	Individual monitoring data	Division-level measurement is not an individual record
DWARAA	Nothing about an identified person	It publishes a framework and holds no records

Nothing flows up to the foundation and nothing flows sideways between divisions. One thing travels upward: is the division doing what it says it does? That can be answered without seeing protected content. The cost is that this foundation cannot tell you which facility was reviewed or what was found. That is the correct cost.

Four walls the foundation cannot waive:

1. Money does not buy information. No supporter sees what CareGuard collects or what Valor Medica knows about a patient.
2. Money does not buy a finding. Nobody can commission a clean review or suppress a bad one.
3. Divisions do not flow to the foundation.
4. Publishing is not prescribing. DWARAA publishes a way of reading a medication list. It does not write on the list.

The fourth division is named for the door in those walls: ਦੁਆਰਾ, dwaraa, means "through" or "by way of," from dwar, a door or gateway.

Is Sevadar Foundation a real 501(c)(3)?

Check it instead of taking it. From 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
Annual filing	Form 990, 990-EZ or 990-N
Accounting period ends	December 31

When	What
October 2021	Incorporated in Missouri as a nonprofit public benefit corporation
August 10, 2023	Federal tax exemption effective
November 22, 2024	CareGuard listed by AHRQ as PSO P0268
August 2026	DWARAA published as the fourth division

How is Sevadar Foundation funded?

As of August 2026, entirely by its founder. No fundraising campaign. No fundraisers. No commissions on gifts. No donation button, by decision.

The foundation names the downside itself. Founder funding concentrates influence in one person, caps capacity at one household's resources, and leaves no donor group with standing to object. The mitigations are the filing duties of the tax status, the outside oversight of a federal PSO listing, and published facts that let anyone catch a contradiction.

Why be a 501(c)(3) if nobody else pays? The asset lock. The foundation's assets can never go to a private person and must, on dissolution, go to another charitable purpose.

Want to help? Start with a conversation about where money would go and what it would change. Restricted gifts are discussed before, never after. And the most useful thing most people can do for a nursing home resident costs nothing: visit one, in person, at an odd hour.

Which door do I need?

If you are	Go to
A family member worried about a nursing home	CareGuard
Staff inside a facility	CareGuard
A facility owner or operator	CareGuard and DWARAA
A veteran or unhoused neighbor who needs care	Valor Medica
Someone who needs housing, food or case management	Valor Villages
A health department, Medicaid program or corrections health service	IntellaRx
A prescriber or family facing a long medication list	DWARAA

How do I contact Sevadar Foundation?

Sevadar Foundation Inc. 4477 Woodson Rd, Suite 203 St. Louis, MO 63134 Call (314) 250-5100

The suite is shared with CareGuard, a division of the foundation. It is an administrative office, so call before coming. Do not send medical details through a web form.

About the founder: Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda.

Frequently asked questions

Is Sevadar Foundation a religious organization?

No. The word comes from a Sikh and broader South Asian tradition of service, and the foundation takes the standard rather than the religion. It has no religious test for staff, participants or anyone it serves, and does no religious outreach.

How do you pronounce Sevadar?

Roughly SAY-vaa-daar, with the stress light and even. Nobody will correct you.

Does the name mean the foundation runs on volunteers?

No. The divisions are staffed and accountable. The name commits the foundation to the posture of the work, not to an unpaid labor model.

Why are the divisions not separate nonprofits?

Four corporations means four boards, four sets of filings, four audits and four chances to lose the thread. One foundation concentrates accountability where it can be exercised. CareGuard is registered as a fictitious name of the foundation in Missouri.

Does the foundation accept money from nursing home operators?

A facility cannot buy a clean review, and federal law makes the answer the same for everyone. Any relationship between a PSO and a provider it contracts with is subject to federal disclosure rules.

Would the foundation add a fifth division?

Only if it passed all three tests. The bar rises with each division, because attention is the scarce resource, not money.